Posted on 07/11/2009 6:19:39 AM PDT by don-o
ACCRA, Ghana – An American president who has "the blood of Africa within me" praised and scolded the continent of his ancestors Saturday, asserting forces of tyranny and corruption must yield if Africa is to achieve its promise.
"Yes you can," Barack Obama declared, brushing off his campaign slogan and adapting it for his foreign audience. Speaking to the Ghanaian Parliament, he called upon African societies to seize opportunities for peace, democracy and prosperity.
"This is a new moment of promise," he said. "To realize that promise, we must first recognize a fundamental truth that you have given life to in Ghana: Development depends upon good governance. That is the ingredient which has been missing in far too many places, for far too long. That is the change that can unlock Africa's potential."
The son of a white woman from Kansas and a black goat herder-turned-academic from Kenya, Obama delivered an unsentimental account of squandered opportunities in postcolonial Africa. America's first black president spoke with a bluntness that perhaps could only come from a member of Africa's extended family.
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Once again promoting there what he seeks to prevent here.
“Development depends upon good governance”
I wish Barry would practice what he preaches.
What, no apology....for something, anything.
o needs to look in the mirror.
Obama is everyman to everyman, eh? After all, he did claim to be a "citizen of the world" (8/08) and that he had come to "change the world." (11/08) And as to that, I believe him.
No chance he is a “son of America”?
Promised $63,000,000,000 in aid to wild applause.
Told them they must work hard and clean up their act,
Sound of crickets.
Pandering again, How do we know he’s a son of Africa, has anyone ever seen his birth certificate?
Does Hussein ever stay home ? Does he need to travel so far and wide to have his ego massaged?
oops my mistake Africa is his home.
How can he talk about corruption in Africa ? his own administration is mentally corrupt.(I can guess financially too.)
Tyranny and corruption. Wat a faker! This bum loves tyrany and corruption. He casn’t wait for his opportunity to be President for Life in order to continue killing us all — literally and figuratively.
Talk about an ego. Like all liberals, for him, all history started with the day he was born and only he and his ilk is above the fray of us plebes.
I can't stand to watch or listen to him.
Yesterday I caught an American journalist asking him why he said one thing in the states but was saying something else in Europe.
Obama told the reporter, “I’m saying this now and that’s what I want you to report.”
He just arrived...he will blame President Bush for slavery,and ask for forgiveness, just wait.
By “good governance”, Obama means “world governance”. Ghana is just another workforce in the global workers’ collective that Obama/Soros wants to impose on humanity.
How do we know he’s a son of Africa,
He just admitted he is not American but African.
Good governance is getting out of the way of development a concept he is totally unfamiliar with. His statement is meant to imply that government will be the initiator of development which is what African totalitarian states have tried. The difference between Osama and Robert Mugabe is only a matter of degree.
And they comply. It’s as though reason has left the room.
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