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Posted on 06/26/2013 12:03:36 PM PDT by nickcarraway
President Barack Obama embarks on his second trip to sub-Saharan Africa today since taking office in 2009. Significant though it is, this long-awaited visit will fall short of the expectations of many Africans. Over the last four and a half years, Africans have grown increasingly critical of Obama's limited interest in the continent -- an interest that seems confined to security -- and many feel that the U.S. president has taken their goodwill for granted. The excitement that accompanied his historic 2008 election has given way to widespread cynicism on the continent. Unfortunately, this trip is unlikely to change the prevailing view among Africans that Obama is out of touch with the new realities of an emerging Africa.
When Obama returns to Washington, he will have increased the amount of time he's spent as president in Africa nearly tenfold -- from 21 to about 200 hours. He will also have gone from having visited only one country -- Ghana -- to having visited four (he's scheduled to make appearances in Senegal, Tanzania, and South Africa). For the Obama administration, these are important milestones and a sign of his renewed commitment.
But for a president who has failed to seize Africa's many economic opportunities, the additional time spent there is still pathetic and embarrassing -- especially when compared with China's deep engagement in the region. Over the last five years, China's top leaders -- including the president, vice president, premier, vice premier, cabinet ministers, and top communist party officials -- have visited around 30 African countries. Former Chinese President Hu Jintao visited 17 African nations in a single 10-month stretch between July 2006 and February 2007. And China's current president, Xi Jinping, has already visited three African countries since taking office on March 14, 2013.
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A prophet is without honor in his own country...
Obama = epic fail in every regard except one. The destruction of America. But praying he ultimately fails there too. God willing we will persevere and good will triumph over evil.
He’s there to get his face all over the news when Nelson Mandela passes away. He wants to steal some of Mandela’s greatness.
It won’t be a disappointment if he decides to stay there.
We elected them, they didn’t. They won’t be forced to take our mistake.
We were forced to take his commie polygamist father. Let them try to make Barry leave, if he meets a handsome young tribesman and decides he's found his true home!
And by the way, his mother was born here, and she was even more, "politically enlightened," than his father.
And by the way, his mother was born here, and she was even more, "politically enlightened," than his father.
I meant “we” in the sense of the general population, who, if asked, would have responded No to the question, “Should we invite a bunch of Third World Communists to go to college here for free while making babies with giddy American bimboes?”
“What the ....? He was supposed to have turned over 2/3 of their GDP to us by now...”
Who gives a Shiite about that?
I'M concerned that he is out of touch with the people of the United States, the country of which he is president.
LOL!
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