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Michelle Obama visits S.Africa with family
google.com ^ | 6/20/11 | AFP

Posted on 06/20/2011 11:38:25 AM PDT by ColdOne

PRETORIA — Michelle Obama began what officials have billed as her first major overseas trip as US first lady Monday, a visit to South Africa and Botswana focused on young women leaders and the legacy of the anti-apartheid struggle.

She is travelling with her daughters, Malia and Sasha, and her mother, Marian Robinson -- but without her husband, US President Barack Obama.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: bhoafrica; botswana; cultureofcorruption; flotusmichelle; obamascandals; onvacation; southafrica; travelwoman
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To: AppyPappy

!^/~


21 posted on 06/20/2011 12:17:48 PM PDT by Deaf Smith
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To: ColdOne

Hey! What’s wrong with “King’s Dominion”?


23 posted on 06/20/2011 12:28:15 PM PDT by RexBeach (Mr. Obama can't count.)
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To: cruise_missile
Another trip on AF#1. I thought there was something about green house gases???

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The King & Queen don't suffer such things. Those Rules & Regulations are adhered to by their subjects.

24 posted on 06/20/2011 12:39:56 PM PDT by Realman30 ("I've already made a donation to Haiti. It's called taxes". . . . El Rushbo.)
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To: MCCC
The country is falling down.

Which one, South Africa or the US?

25 posted on 06/20/2011 12:54:26 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ColdOne

Sickening. Did she bring a potload of more freeloader friends again?


26 posted on 06/20/2011 12:57:54 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: Neverforget01

It is her first OFFICIAL trip the rest were vaca’s?


27 posted on 06/20/2011 12:59:26 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Allen West 2012 Make it happen!)
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To: ROCKLOBSTER

Both!


28 posted on 06/20/2011 1:20:43 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: SamuraiScot

moocher


29 posted on 06/20/2011 1:30:43 PM PDT by personalaccts (Is George W going to protect the border?)
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To: SamuraiScot

Sounds like Chicago...


30 posted on 06/20/2011 1:31:06 PM PDT by TigerClaws
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To: ColdOne

She needs to visit the Congo and get a wake up call.


31 posted on 06/20/2011 1:45:02 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

What was she doing while in India, England, ireland, etc...


32 posted on 06/20/2011 1:48:59 PM PDT by HollyB
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To: MCCC

You hit it. for sure manchelle thinks she deserves something for how awful America has treated her.

I cringe whenever she represents our county


33 posted on 06/20/2011 1:51:17 PM PDT by RWGinger
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To: ColdOne
I sure hope the secret service are still oath keepers and will inform those treasonous acts committed there.
34 posted on 06/20/2011 2:17:56 PM PDT by Tigen (I shall raise you one .)
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To: Tigen

Hey, FL, the problem in Africa isn’t the women — it’s the men — the men who are incapable of being monogamous or creating strong families. If they’d just learn to do this, we wouldn’t need to send aid to Africa.

But this point always seems lost on these people.


35 posted on 06/20/2011 2:26:20 PM PDT by LibsRJerks
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To: ColdOne
A nice PR distraction for the public...
36 posted on 06/20/2011 2:56:50 PM PDT by 4Liberty (88% of Americans are NON-UNION. We value honest, peaceful Free trade-NOT protectionist CARTELS)
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To: Lumper20

Lumper20,
I read your profile and apprreciate it.
Specially the last sentance.


37 posted on 06/20/2011 2:59:12 PM PDT by Joe Boucher ((FUBO))
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To: ColdOne

Why don’t they visit West Africa where they can witness first hand the continuation of hundreds of years of African slave trade. All well and good to see South Africa but they are silent over the horrors they claim to oppose when they don’t fit the black nationalist talking points.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2728352/posts
Nigerian ‘baby factory’ raided, 32 teenage girls freed
AFP via yahoo.com ^ | Wed June 1, 2011

“Cases of child abuse and people trafficking are common in West Africa. Some children are bought from their families to for use as labour in plantations, mines, factories or as domestic help.”


38 posted on 06/20/2011 3:53:37 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Ask Barack Obama this election if he believes Jesus Christ rose from the dead and walked among men.)
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To: ColdOne
The White House has emphasised the importance to the first family of South Africa's anti-apartheid movement, which President Obama has called his first political cause.

Translated: Tired of putting Americans out of work in America, Zero's domestic partner decided to try her hand at hunting...


...white farmers.
39 posted on 06/20/2011 4:18:58 PM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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To: Renderofveils

And before people take my statement and get all huffy, on average 176 white farmers per year have been murdered in South Africa since 1994. That’s about 1 every 48 hours for 17 years.


40 posted on 06/20/2011 4:26:25 PM PDT by Renderofveils (My loathings are simple: stupidity, oppression, crime, cruelty, soft music. - Nabokov)
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