Posted on 05/10/2010 9:02:53 AM PDT by Ooh-Ah
Edited on 05/10/2010 9:04:48 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
In a recent interview with PBS host Charlie Rose, Sudanese-born businessman Mohamed Ibrahim said that Africans had great hopes for Barack Obama, but are still waiting for him to announce a new set of U.S. policies toward their continent.
All of Obama's four immediate predecessors spearheaded at least one major initiative in the Western Hemisphere. Ronald Reagan established the Kissinger Commission on Central America and launched the Caribbean Basin Initiative (CBI). George H.W. Bush started the "Enterprise for the Americas Initiative" and spearheaded the NAFTA talks. Bill Clinton completed NAFTA, created the Summit of the Americas, supported enhanced trade preferences for CBI members, and began negotiations for a "Free Trade Area of the Americas." George W. Bush signed CAFTA with Central America and the Dominican Republic), plus single free-trade pacts with Chile, Peru, Colombia and Panama; he also introduced the anti-drug M
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I recommend that Latin America NOT hold its breath while it waits. Mr. Obama lies to EVERYONE.
deliver what? and why is no one asking the question?
Delivering Obama’s stash (our stash)......
Don’t hold your breath ....
get in line and bring a lunch
The ol ‘CHINK CHINK’ my friend!
Free trade. It’s highly unlikely that this will happen now...unless it benefits Chavez in some way. But since he has destroyed his country’s economy, I don’t think he has much to trade. Just a taste of things to come for us.
I think the promises are empty, always were ... It was all Obama-Speak.
Read my tagline
translation: So when is all of that American wealth going to be transeferred to us, as you promised to do in your Berlin and Cairo speeches?
They better learn to whistle thru the wind.
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