http://www.usnews.com/opinion/blogs/world-report/2013/07/05/obama-finally-launches-new-programs-for-africa
President Obama returned from Africa in time for domestic Fourth of July observances, as presidents are wont to do.Obama's advisors, as well as his common sense, no doubt made sure that his detractors could not question (again) his loyalties were he to be out of the country on Independence Day.
this is what is wrong with gov't not spending which has to be approved by those who are pointing fingers in the wrong direction.
the republicans have from before he took office set about to grant him nothing, hence everything he does or says is selectively spun by the right wing in order to present a negative.
if he were conducting more important foreign business then why would it be necessary that he be here for the over commercialized holiday,
it's all about fireworks nothing presidential, but by saying he wasn't here promotes their demonization agenda and the gullibles here go "yeah, he's not here", wtf would he do that was soooo important smile and wave?
this is the juvenile thinking of the right wing and the acceptance of some to embrace it.
There were several articles written about Obama's visit to the African continent, though I was surprised by the lack of analysis done in even the best of papers. The Washington Post, especially, covered the costs of the trip and was probably responsible for the cancellation of the family's safari in Tanzania.It also covered the unfortunate timing of the entourage's arrival in South Africa as Mandela struggled to stay alive in a hospital, and in Tanzania wrote of the juxtaposition and irony of two American presidents – Obama and George W. Bush – crossing paths, certainly not planned by either, but both made the best of it and appeared together briefly at a ceremony honoring the victims of the 1998 terrorist bombing of the U.S. embassy in that country.Bloomberg News wrote that U.S. businesses were not taking advantage of the African market and were falling behind other nations in the rush to trade with and invest in Africa.
that is what the right wing thinking is, how they can capitalize off another country, they said nothing when republican presidents went there, but a Black Pres. gets all sorts of blind insight, double standards, things that were never an issue pre 2008. i believe had Pres. pursued trade agreements and such just like the other trade agreements the right would find fault that not only hits our ears but those we would do business with, making negotiations harder because of their planned interference. thereby making their obstruction more effective.
