Posted on 07/11/2009 10:08:27 AM PDT by Steelfish
Obama declares to Africa: End tyranny, corruption
MARK S. SMITH
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, dusting 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 great 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."
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.
And he reached back to an older legacy, that of slavery, as he toured the cannon-lined redoubt where people were kept in squalid dungeons then shipped in chains to America, through a "Door of No Return" that opens to the sea.
"It reminds us of the capacity of human beings to commit great evil," he said from the stark white stone fortifications of Cape Coast Castle, converted to the slave trade by the British in the 17th century.
Pic was so apropos!
I wouldn’t be surprised if he stopped at an internet cafe and fired off a few scam letters to Americans.
what a brave swell guy
goes to on eof the most stable wannabe-democracies in Africa to preach about corruption
Skipped right past his birthplace, didn’t he?
Maybe afraid his dozens of impoverished relatives would try to hithchike back to the US with him
Didn't I read a year ago that genealogy research on Obama’s family reveal they were from the tribes which kidnapped and sold Africans to the slavers?? Maybe not the English, then possibly the Arabs who have always been big time slavers.
To Soetoro:
Shut up and resign you corrupt tyrant.
Yeah, he’s such a foe of tyranny that Obama wants to prop up the dictator wanna-be of Honduras.
Right. What I don’t understand is that while Obama is saying ‘stop tyranny’, his internet army is posting all over the place that Obama will declare a national state of emergency if his health care legislation stalls.
I just picked one link for reference:
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