Obama shows "One Love" in Jamaica

AP via CBS ^ | April 9, 2015

[don-o]

KINGSTON, Jamaica -- The Caribbean region collectively cheered when President Obama was first elected president in 2008. Calypso and reggae songs were written in his honor, the French Caribbean island of Martinique named a road after him, and Antigua's highest mountain officially became "Mount Obama" as the small country saluted him as a symbol of black achievement.

The first president to visit Jamaica in three decades, Mr. Obama arrived in Kingston Wednesday evening trying to rekindle an enthusiasm that has waned amid a perceived lack of attention from the American president.

[don-o]

THERE'S a foreign policy triumph!

And, surely time to work inn 18 holes.

[Iron Munro]

And, surely time to work in 18 holes.

Or did Queen Obama give a few batty boys some private dance lessons?

[Eric in the Ozarks]

And score a tidbit of gonja...

[BenLurkin]

"Mount Obama"

[Uncle Miltie]

Reggie’s there?

[MeshugeMikey]

THIS TRIP REQUIRED that AIr Force 4 be pressed into duty..to carry Obie extensive Choom Gang Wardrobe and associated Paraphernalia!

[two23]

Do radical commies really play golf?

[houeto]

Do radical commies really play golf?

Dis Won Dew!

[MeshugeMikey]

Mount Obama....

Mount Obama (known as Boggy Peak until August 4, 2009) is the highest point in the nation of Antigua and Barbuda and on the island of Antigua. It lies in the far southwest of the island at 17°2′31″N 61°51′4″W,[2][3] and rises to a height of 402 metres (1,319 ft) and is named after Barack Obama, the 44th President of the United States.

The highest point of the southwestern Shekerley Mountains, it is here that runaway slaves..... congregated while hiding in the forest. In 1687, 27 runaways were known to be encamped in a palisaded ‘maroon’ camp at the peak, then known as Boggy Peak.

[EQAndyBuzz]

Couldn’t he just have gone to Colorado and saved the taxpayers a few million?

[chajin]

Having worked in Kingston for a while in the early 2000s, I honestly can’t think of any place in the town that would be up to the standards of a Presidential coterie, regardless of whether it be the present visitor, or someone from our ideological bent, such as the previous Presidential visitor, Ronald Reagan in 1982. When the royal family (by which I mean the Hanovers) visits, they stay at Half Moon Bay, but that is on the north side of the island, not the south where Kingston is.

[HarleyLady27]

is it golf, or is it his ‘boy toy’ he went to see....

some are saying he did that in Salt Lake last week....

[Dilbert San Diego]

Well, isn’t our foreign policy with Jamaica a matter of international importance?????

[AngelesCrestHighway]

Antigua's highest mountain officially became "Mount Obama"...?

[ßuddaßudd]

♫ This is the ganja night, now all my people exercise your ganja rights
These are the ganja daze, so everybody flex upon your ganja ways and recognize ♪♫

[Rockitz]

Major choomfest coming....

[PoloSec]

About 30 years ago I associated with several Jamaicans, they did not like to be referred to or identified as black, negro, African or any such black American designation; they preferred to be addressed as Jamaican or something along those lines I don’t exactly remember, they also seemed to have little sympathy for the black rights movement as they regarded themselves as independent and individuals.

That was long ago, has that changed?

BTW they where very easy to get along with, not whiny or bent on being victims, casting blame, or openly suffering circumstance, that was my observation back then maybe it was just those few that I knew, having lived there your insight into whether my observations where correct or anomalous would be appreciated.

[chajin]

That was long ago, has that changed?

That hadn't changed as of 10 years ago.

On the one hand, there is no such thing as a conservative Jamaican in the Ted Cruz sense of the term. On the other hand, the majority of people I met, in Kingston, on the north shore, and in the places where the tourists don't go, did not expect the government to do for them what they could do for themselves.