Posted on 07/26/2015 10:12:42 AM PDT by GoneSalt
President Barack Obama, wrapping up a landmark trip to Kenya, has told Kenyans that there is "no limit to what you can achieve" but said they had to deepen democracy, tackle corruption and end exclusion based on gender or ethnicity.
Obama addressed an audience of several thousand packed into an indoor arena in Nairobi on Sunday, before heading to Ethiopia, the second stop on his East Africa tour.
The US president, whose father was born and died in Kenya, talked of his own experience and Kenya's in the five decades since independence.
"I'm here as president of a country that sees Kenya as an important partner. I'm here as a friend who wants Kenya to succeed," he said, after being introduced by his sister Auma Obama to a crowd which had secured tickets to attend.
(Excerpt) Read more at aljazeera.com ...
Former Democrat presidents never quite get off the stage. Former Republican presidents seem to disappear but not the Democrats.
Bullshit platitudes as usual.
“no limit to what you can achieve”
I thought in a couple of our University systems, this is a forbidden phrase, due to micro aggressions and white privilege.
“Obama says ‘no limits’ to what Kenyans can achieve”
Take Obama. he even makes Al Gore look brilliant.
0bama’s brother is living the dream!
Soooo, obammy,
Do Kenyans still eat dog? And people?
That’s exactly what the Kenyan Parliament said when they were patting themselves on the back about one of their native born growing up to become POTUS.
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