Sunday’s schedule in Rio de Janeiro includes a tour of Ciudad de Deus Favela (the “City of God” made famous in 2002 movie), a speech on U.S.-Brazil relations, and a tour of Rio’s famous statue of Christ the Redeemer atop Corcovado Mountain.
I might be a little slower updating the blog tomorrow, but I’ll get there in the end ;-)
Night everyone.
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I know, you won’t like seeing a video of the bird-brain-bozo here, but this one’s worth seeing, it completely cracked me up. Watch the faces of the audience in India as she talks about how she would have handled Libya (you know, that ‘little South American country ruled by Kernull Gadaffy Duck’). It’s like the reaction of an audience to a comedian whose jokes just aren’t very funny. And keep an eye on the guy putting on his glasses, at 0:58 (top right), he can’t take any more of the twaddle, so he takes out his phone. He probably dialed 911.
Honest, she doesn’t even make me mad any more. She’s just an idiot, and even most right-wingers are beginning to realize it.
(Ha, even Politico seemed to find it all a bit embarrassing: She struggled to provide pointed answers to several of interviewer Aroon Purie’s questions on foreign affairs.. Purie, who introduced her to the gathering, poked fun at Palin’s “creative vocabulary” and her polarizing place in American politics in his introduction of the former governor.
He frequently made clear that not everyone in the United States has a positive view of the former Alaska governor. “Either you love her or hate her,” he said.
Alluding to Palin’s penchant for sometimes venturing into unique terminology, Purie said “if I may be forgiven for saying so, she has a creative vocabulary. “Governor Palin, I hope you don’t refudiate me,” he said, smirking to an amused crowd.)
Update: Thank you Sim for posting this video in the comments - hopefully, in time, I’ll be able to wash the coffee spray off my computer screen:
:lol:
President Obama, first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia and Sasha during their arrival in Rio de Janeiro, March 19
President Obama, Rio de Janeiro’s Governor and Mayor, Sergio Cabral and Eduardo Paes, look at Paes’ son, Bernardo
President Obama arrives to make a statement authorizing limited military action against Libya, March 19
UK Independent: The Paris summit yesterday of the 10-nation coalition of the willing, including the Arab League, backed by a United Nations resolution authorising the use of force to impose a no-fly zone over Libya, marks a triumph of diplomacy.
Inevitably, it is marred by the besetting fault of such negotiations: it has taken too long for the world community to come to this point …. but that is the price of unity. Far better to have the Arab League call for a no-fly zone and the UN respond than to have the rich Western nations of Nato decide what is good for north Africa.
…Barack Obama made it clear last week that US troops would not be deployed in Libya and the UN resolution specifically excludes “a foreign occupation force of any form on any part of Libyan territory”. President Obama, incidentally, has been criticised in recent weeks for his apparent uncertainty and lack of assertion. We do not join in that criticism. It is wise that the United States should allow European and Arab states to take the lead in the Mediterranean theatre, while supporting the rule of law under the aegis of the UN.
…The no-fly zone may seem inadequate to the task of protecting the Libyan people, but, however difficult it may be to accept, it may be that the best we can hope for is that the international community blunts the worst excesses of Gaddafi’s brutality.
Full article here
President Barack Obama is seen from behind during the second meeting with his Brazilian counterpart Dilma Rousseff at the Palacio do Alvorada in Brasilia, March 19
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