Remarks by the President to the Ghanaian Parliament

President Obama in Accra
TigerHawk — President Obama delivered a speech in Accra, Ghana, before the Ghanaian Parliament . Partly because of his father's heritage, it is likely that his words resonated with the immediate and broader audience in Africa in a way that no other American president's would -- we may wish that an audience of any race would be attentive to a speaker of any other race, but that is probably not a realistic expectation quite yet in most parts of the world. So, give President Obama credit for taking the opportunity to hold Africans responsible for some of their own problems, and not ...

PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH: No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy…
Instapundit — PRACTICE WHAT YOU PREACH: No country is going to create wealth if its leaders exploit the economy to enrich themselves — (applause) — or if police — if police can be bought off by drug traffickers. (Applause.) No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top — (applause) — or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. (Applause.) That is not democracy, that is tyranny, even if ...

Obama’s Tough Love for Africa
Matthew Yglesias — ... I’m always reading on the Corner that Barack Obama is a far-left radical driven by anti-American and anti-Western impulses. Under the circumstances, it’s weird that he keeps giving speeches that are so at odds with his world view: ...

Can We Get A Little of That "New Moment Of Promise" Obama Promised Ghana Here Too? Or Is Corruption In America Too Ingrained For Anyone To Take It On?
DownWithTyranny! — ... The official White House transcript is available. For the billions of people in the third world, corruption drains away resources and condemns the overwhelming majority of people to lives unfulfilled, not to mention to lives in which hunger, disease, abject poverty, and despair are dominant forces. ...

The Stopped Clock
baldilocks — Normally I avoid Obama speeches like the plague. The president’s need to be on TV every single day reminds me of an ex-boyfriend who thought he was so great, so much God’s gift to womanhood, that a girl couldn’t possibly be in her right mind for preferring another over him. “Stop calling me!” (One thing about Obama-on-TV-fatigue: I’m sometimes think that the inducement of it is intentional.) However, the speech made during President Obama’s first trip to the African continent as president specifically, was bound to produce some items of interest even though I had to take a ...

Quote of the Day
Dean's World — ... the government skims 20 percent off the top — (applause) — or the head of the Port Authority is corrupt. No person wants to live in a society where the rule of law gives way to the rule of brutality and bribery. (Applause.) That is not democracy, that is tyranny, even if occasionally you sprinkle an election in there. And now is the time for that style of governance to end. (Applause.) [emphasis added] – Barack Obama

'Destroying Jobs to Save Them'
The Corner on National Review Online — ... ] When he was in Ghana this weekend, the president tried to encourage African governments to embrace institutions that promote economic gro wth. He said , "No business wants to invest in a place where the government skims 20 percent off the top." You go, president Obama. However, he doesn't think that American businesses deserve the same treatment. The U.S. corporate tax rate is 35 percent (at the federal level). That's the second highest of all the OECD countries. It's higher than France and Sweden. If you add the state rate, that's an average of 40 percent. And yet, he wants ...

Obama and Africa in Perspective
GayPatriot — ... on the president’s America-Bashing Tour that there was more to discuss about his speech to the Ghanaian Parliament. Here it is: ...