He chided them on getting their houses in order which is the same rhetoric our leaders throw out there while billions of our tax dollars go there for so many different things we can't even enumerate them here, especially the billions Bush sent there to combat Aids that Obama is now taking credit for..
But with his trip now turning to Africa, I thought it would be apropos to show what he was doing the last time he was there, campaigning for his dictator of a cousin known as Odinga, and was treated like a king born of their blood. Keep in mind watching this if you do that Obama wasn't even president yet, so why all the"king like" adulation?
We know why, he was born there that's why
Below is a story from ABC's Jake Tapper, covering this portion of the trip I alluded to above with the meeting with the leaders from multiple African nations in Italy. Another aside is that Obama is avoiding his so called "father's birth land"of Kenya on this trip
Which sure seems an interesting place to avoid, wouldn't you think?
And they're all pretty pissed off about the Obama Kenyan snub, a place he must avoid in order to make sure his true birthplace isn't accidentally revealed by some reporter over there asking dangerous questions.
And While he is taking a wrecking ball to our house, he tells Africa to fix theirs.Typical Obama.
Political Punch: "L'AQUILA, ITALY-- In a meeting this morning with the leaders of Egypt, Algeria, Senegal, Nigeria, Libya and Ethiopia, President Obama spoke about his personal connections to both Africa and poverty, and according to a top White House aide, 'you could have heard a pin drop.'
After describing a food security initiative that the president and other G-8 leaders have been working on, the president talked about development and the importance of governance.
'He shared a personal story,' said deputy National Security Adviser Michael Froman. 'Everyone knows that his father was from Kenya, that he still has relatives living in poverty, and that while he’s President of the United States he feels poverty in a very personal way because of this of his family situation.'"
Froman recounted that the president shared that when his father, Barack Obama Sr., came to the United States from Kenya, Kenya's GDP was higher than Korea's.
"Obviously much has happened since then and he wanted to make it clear that the problems that Africans face weren’t just a product of colonialism or past history," Froman said, "that this partnership -- whether it's over food security or other development ideas -- require local governments to take responsibility seriously. This wasn’t a time to make excuses. And that it was important to join together in a clear-eyed way."
As the president put it, Froman went on, "his cousin in Kenya cant find a job without paying a bribe, and that’s not the fault of the G-8. And when companies can’t operate without paying, in some parts of Africa, without paying the 25 percent fee off the top in bribes, that’s not colonialism." continued
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