TAZ wrote:Alba wrote:If Obama is seen cavorting with people who have been accused of high crimes at the ICC, republicans will bury him. The clown who wrote that piece does not understand US politics. republicans are always on pins and needles itching to make Obama look bad.
In fact Uhuru should thank Obama for not coming. The last thing he needs is for republicans to highlight the fact that he is an ICC wanted criminal.
And finally the author of that piece seems to be very bitter that Obama did not pay his hero a visit.
"Republicans have disparaged the ICC since well before it was established in 2002. President George W. Bush tried to kill it by "unsigning" the treaty President Bill Clinton and more than 100 other world leaders signed. When Obama was supportive of referring Libya's Moammar Gadhafi to the ICC for prosecution, John Bolton, Bush's former U.N. ambassador and a Romney foreign policy adviser, dismissed the court as "one of the world's most illegitimate multilateral institutions," adding that the president's stance was an "abdication of responsibility."
That will not stop republicans from criticising Obama for cavorting with an ICC indictee ?
Republicans are 1st class hypocrites. They criticize Obama even for things that they created. Case in point: Obamacare. All key aspects of Obamacare were 1st proposed by republicans as recently as 1994. Mitt Romney himself implemented it when he was governor. That does not stop him and other republicans from saying Obamacare is the worst thing.
In any case, there are 53 countries in Africa. Obama has to choose 1 or 2 to visit. He will probably visit the best governed one. The fact that he does not come to Kenya does not mean he is bitter. He just wants to support leaders who are less corrupt. In fact the author of that article is the one who comes across as bitter or a jilted lover.