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  • Now for Brazil's Barack Obamas - all six of them

    09/17/2008 4:57:49 PM PDT · by edzo4 · 5 replies · 228+ views
    The Guardian ^ | 9-17-08 | Tom Phillips
    <p>Welcome to Obama-mania, Brazil-style. Few countries have embraced the idea of the US's first black president as enthusiastically as Brazil, a country with one of the largest Afro-descendant populations on Earth yet where black faces remain a minority in politics. Obama T-shirts are everywhere while chat shows and newspaper columns are filled with talk of the 47-year-old Illinois senator.</p>
  • Lucky Brazilians! They Have Six Obamas to Choose From (6 Brazilian Politicians Can't Be Wrong???)

    09/17/2008 8:38:46 AM PDT · by weegee · 17 replies · 304+ views
    Brazzil Mag ^ | Tuesday, 16 September 2008 | Written by Émerson Luiz
    Barack Obama is running for mayor in Belford Roxo, a little town close to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He is also trying to become a mayor and a city council member in at least five other towns around Brazil, in the Brazilian October municipal elections. Not that Barack Obama though. Thanks to the Brazilian electoral legislation, which allows candidates to choose whatever name they want to appear on the ballot, Brazilian politicians are using the high name recognition and popularity of US senator Barack Obama to advance their own political career. The Rio Obama calls himself Obama of Belford Roxo....