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| Why our leaders wish Obama only bad luck |
| 2008-07-30 |
| According to opinion polls and word on the streets, if the November US presidential elections were to be decided by non-Americans, Democratic Party candidate Barack Obama would beat the Republican's John McCain with about 90 per cent of the vote. Obama's popularity abroad, and indeed in the US, is almost dizzying. However if the elections were left to African presidents to decide, McCain could probably beat Obama with 90 per cent of the vote. This might be surprising, given that Obama is not only an African-American, but his father was a Kenyan chap who went to the USA as a fellowship student - and like every conflicted African abroad, abandoned his American family and came home to find for himself a strong-backed local girl. |
| Posted by:tipper |
| #2 You're way behind the times, RJ. It's already there. |
| Posted by: Sheba Sheamble5056 2008-07-30 20:39 |
| #1 Now you will have a Black president who not only won an election honestly, but went on to govern competently and solve some of the problems of his country. And what if Obama governs incompetently. After all many of Africa's woes have to do with their following Marxist economic policies. Will the world decide that blacks are incapable of proper government if Obama fails? They won't say so out loud of course but it's gonna be there. |
| Posted by: rjschwarz 2008-07-30 17:00 |