Posted on 06/30/2013 11:22:39 AM PDT by ColdOne
President Barack Obama's trip to Africa has largely been ignored by the U.S. media, and for good reason: it seems to have no real purpose.
While attention to Africa is long overdue, the president is announcing no new strategy, concluding no significant agreements--merely announcing a new investment in African power generation, which African companies are arguably capable of funding and carrying out themselves.
Much of his trip to Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania consists of sightseeing with his family--and an entourage of 1,000, at a cost to taxpayers of $60 to $100 million.
Consider the reason Obama gave reporters about why he is visiting Cape Town on Sunday:
His schedule on Sunday begins with a flight to Cape Town and then a helicopter ride to the museum on Robben Island.
Obama visited when he was a senator but this time is bringing his family. He said he's eager to teach them about Mandela's role in overcoming white racist rule, first as an activist and later as a president who forged a unity government with his former captors.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Are the going to stay in Africa through the Independence Day weekend, as another in your face America moment? Personally, I hope they stay there until Satan calls them home.
Obama dares young Africans to seize their future
Snip: The White House says Obama's electricity initiative, dubbed "Power Africa," symbolizes the type of cross-continent ventures the president seeks. Backed by $7 billion in U.S. investment, the power program will focus on expanding access to electricity in six African countries: Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria and Tanzania.
Promoting sodomy, one of his favorite causes:
Snips: In Uganda, …….the pracitce - …………has been outlawed by president Museveni, while Zimbabwe's president Robert Mugabe claimed homosexuals were "worse than pigs and dogs."
But South Africa has the most permissve gay rights legislation in the whole world………
I’m sure the Africans are asking the same question.
Thank you Britebart! Thank You Joel Polack!
All the krap comming out of coverage has been about his pitifull reception with the countries he’s visited. But nothing nothing about these huge entourages free trips given campaign supporters at the expence of the American Taxpayer.
Vacationing. What else?
His communist friend Valerie Jarrett runs things when the creep is gone and when he is back in the country her and the other commies plus Muslim Brotherhood all have a hand in destroying ..
Our founders would be disgusted to see what we peacfully tolerate.
Cool vie from Robben Island. I’ve been in that exact same spot. The Cape Town area landscape is beautiful.
Get with the program, that is his “home state of Hawaii” or “Hawaii, the place of his birth.” Required phrases for every Obama Hawaii vacation news story.
My thoughts: Zero wants a race war to facilitate a martial law declaration.
He's a muslim, and is advancing a muslim agenda in America (using our resources to do it).
He is tying up and restricting US companies from accessing our own natural resources and approving projects (Keystone Pipeline) to keep us energy-constrained and dependent on the middle-east (muslims).
The DHS buying up (with our taxpayer dollars) massive amounts of common ammo to keep it out of the hands of the general populace, while at the same time militarizing the local LEO's with riot control traffic, and testing how American's react to No-Knock, warrant-less raids is all the proof I need.
They have taken over public education and are changing our history to reflect a world that fits their agenda and not reality to indoctrinate our children. This is 1030's Nazi Germany all over again, but IT'S HERE!
Just spent the last couple days trying to find some 9mm target ammo for practice. It's not there, anywhere. Same with many of the more common calibers. Food prices are rising, and summer is getting hotter as scandal after scandal is revealed as to how our government has been turning into a piggybank for socialism, communism, gay rights, abortion, harass patriot groups while helping "progressive groups" (going so far as to give private information to the conservatives enemies), to prosecute Christians, forcing them to accept things that are diametrically opposed to their teaching and beliefs, and advance a muslim agenda in this country (using our tax dollars to do it).
List complete? I doubt it. I also believe Bengahzi was zeros attempt to make a way of freeing the Gitmo detainees, including the blind sheik (bloodthirsty terrorist all, with American blood on their hands). If reversed, they would have been publically executed by now, but we spend billions keeping them "happy"....
Do I sound P!ssed Off? Oh yeah....
Looking for a new home, for after the election.
Want to know what the Obamas are doing in Africa? One word. PROJECTING!
Obama is creating sound bites in Africa that will be used in America. No one here believes him so he cannot give this speech in America without the “right wing press” calling him out.
So he will give his sound bites in Africa and his media team will intersperse it with some cute imagery. And his acolytes will bleat like the sheep they are.
You forgot “empowering foreign invaders to decide who our elected officials will be” and willfully bankrupting America to ensure it never recovers.. Oh yeah, and that “Edward Snowden false flag to surrender our national security to Russia and China, pretty much overturning America’s superpower status by undermining all of our intelligence gathering capabilities.. “Flexibility”, remember THAT quote?”.. Sending troops to the ME to PROTECT THE MB AGAINST IT’S OWN CITIZENS AND ISRAEL, TOO but I can relate to your outrage!
0bama’s been marooned on Robbin’ Island for a decade or better.
Correction that’s Joel Pollak not Polack
I hate him
“...I hope they all get the African ‘Montezuma’s Revenge’....”
They ARE the african Montezuma’s Revenge!!!
Otherwise, how can poo poop poo?? You can’t polish poo.
He shuts our power plants down but promotes $7B worth over there. He states we have “an obligation” to feed them. Well, maybe mr. skittles, should read his history and get some enlightening news. They had a “breadbasket” over there that pretty much took care of the entire continent for years. It was called Rhodesia. Then, “Holder’s people” took it over and turned it into Zimbabwe. There are no shed tears coming from this American.
"The world is grateful for the heroes of Robben Island, who remind us that no shackles or cells can match the strength of the human spirit."
Pass the Bucket, please.
Obama is doing in Africa what he does here. He pushes to increase and aggravate the racial divide and makes self-aggrandizing speeches.
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