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08/14/09
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08/14/09
Hopefully, this time will be no exception.
08/14/09
The worst part is that Western powers probably can't do much, if anything, to get these new laws repealed.
08/15/09
Western powers not being able to repeal laws of a sovereign nation is not the worst part.
08/12/09
That said, you write that that the press could help Clinton by focusing on the actual issues at hand.
Well, Clinton (and Obama) wants to frame her visit as being all about democracy, being tough on corrupt African leaders, helping defenseless Congolese women (I am with Texas in Africa on this). That may be so, but it obscures the larger rationale for Ms Clinton's visit. Which incidentally is not a secret since State Department officials can't stop wanting to tell the media about it, but the media won't report it. That is two things:
By 2025 the US government expects to import at least 25% of its oil suppliers from African sources–Clinton is visiting three suppliers on this trip: Angola, Nigeria, and Cape Verde. Obama visited a fourth, Ghana (they discovered oil in 2007), a month ago. Right now Nigeria is the 5th largest, and Angola the 6th largest exporters of oil to the United States. Oh, and the US is facing competition from China (who operate by a different, easier, set of rules for foreign investment) for African oil and other resources.
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08/12/09
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08/12/09
Then I realized I probably didn't want to know.
08/12/09
It breaks my heart that the percentage is in all likelihood very high.
08/12/09
08/12/09
many props to hillary. lotta respect for her as a person & a politician.
08/12/09
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08/12/09
And as soon as all of the TV stations were running this, the newspapers had to pick it up so they didn't look like they were "covering it up," if that makes sense. In the end, everyone gets screwed because reporters got lazy. Grrr.
08/12/09
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08/12/09
Way to roll with the times Ms Brown.
08/12/09
That being said, one of our least-favorite newspeople, Ann Curry, was on the ball this morning. After the Today show ran the same piece everyone else is running, she made a point of explaining why it's so important that Clinton in the Congo and what life is like there. Curry has spent a lot of time in Darfur, and I have a feeling she would like to be reporting on the Congo as well.
08/12/09
I think it was about a reporter asking STUPID QUESTION.
That said, the newborn PR girl in me would have advised Madame Secretary to say something like, Oh, I'm very proud of my husband -- it's wonderful he can keep serving our wonderful nation even though he is no longer in the Oval Office'. Then I would have her re-direct attention onto the issue at hand, saying -- I'm sure he'd like us to focus on blah blah blah blah today.
Reporters can be very easy to pacify in that way.
08/12/09
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