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How could Obama hire a non-US citizen to be a secretary in Washington?! Outrage! New World Order! Libruls!
(Some right-wing nutjob is raving about this on another board I frequent. He refuses to see that she works for the Ghanian embassy, and is not employed in any way, shape, or form by the US government. I just thought I’d share. You’re welcome.)
Edit: Hmmm…MPSIMS?
This has what to do with Obama?
She is a secretary in the Ghana embassy - nothing to do with Obama.
{insert snark about getting new from an AOL website, even if it is a WaPo feed}
You guys didn’t read the rest of the OP, did you?
Crap. Apologies. Blindness. Stupidity. Skimming.
I did read the article!
{insert snark about not actually reading the OP when responding with a snark}
Yes. For now at least. Moved from The BBQ Pit to Mundane Pointless Stuff I Must Share.
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I also heard that everyone working at the Russian Embassy is a bunch of goddamn Russians!
Well, at least they’re not like those people at the Chinese Embassy: that’s run by a bunch of Communists!
Shouldn’t you discuss this on the other board, then? In theory?
It’s a fun story and I’m leaving the thread open, with the hint that the topic should be the story itself, not preemptive right-wing outrage.
It’s MPSIMS. It is what it is. Since the thread does not contain a link to the board in question, and began as a Pit thread, it shouldn’t be that big a deal.
Well, yeah, I did. And I read the entire link which, by the way, doesn’t even mention Obama. But you are presenting this as some nutjob implicating Obama in this outrage (! :D). I’m simply asking what the nutjob’s justification for connecting Obama with some secretary at the Ghanian embassy. Or are they now just shouting “Obama!” whenever they detect something they’d like to be outraged about?
This is a strawman thread,a Ghanain(If thats how the hell you spell it) working for the Embassy of Ghana.
I’m only a Brit but I supported Obama totally and did everything I could to present his case on M.B.s and everywhere else that I could.
Many people fought long and hard to get Obama elected as President and had to fight an incredible amount of racism to get him there.
He is still having to fight an incredible amount of racism now he’s actually in office but he’s not the "Black "President,he’s THE PRESIDENT,representing all colours and creeds.
And scaremongering threads like this do not help his case one little bit.
One of our drivers at the Peace Corps office in Cameroon was local royalty. It was pretty funny, because when he went back to his village he’d have his own driver there.
African royalty is interesting. In Cameroon it was very well organized, with the leaders of different areas holding well-defined powers. Some were more powerful than the civic governments and commanded their own armies, ran their own prisons, etc. Most had a lot less power, and stuck to collecting local taxes, allocating land, and settling disputes. They ran a sort of parallel government. The leaders were semi-elected- chosen by the community from a fairly long list of eligible people. In most cases in Cameroon, people did not want to be royalty, because royalty are expected to stay in the area and live life according to traditional rules, whereas most young people want the freedom to strike out on their own.
So being African royalty can be a big thing or it can be a small thing. For example, the small town next to me had 57 princes. So any given person being royalty would not be that remarkable unless they were from one of the more powerful kingdoms.
Second failure thus far to read either the OP or the thread. Anyone offering a line on the final number? I’ll give 3:2 on at least two more before the thread hits page two.
Personally, Ogre, I’d just be grateful that your other board’s pet idiot is just misrepresenting reality, rather than making it up completely. It’s a lot easier to debunk “this guy works for the U.S. and it’s Obama’s fault” than “he’s secretly a reptilian Illuminati terrorist using Ghana as a base for the upcoming Horse Pox epidemic.” Small comfort, I know, but take it where you can find it.
Wow. Incredible.