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Title: Lula da Silva: Black U.S. president would be `extraordinary'
Post by: bijou on November 02, 2008, 12:03:38 PM

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HAVANA -- Brazil's president said Friday that the prospect of a black U.S. president ''would be an extraordinary thing,'' but stopped short of endorsing Democrat Barack Obama by name.

... ''Just as Brazil elected a metal worker, Bolivia elected an Indian, Venezuela elected [socialist leader Hugo] Chávez and Paraguay a bishop, I think that it would be an extraordinary thing if, in the largest economy in the world, a black were elected president of the United States,'' he said.

link (http://www.miamiherald.com/news/americas/story/750763.html)

Title: Re: Lula da Silva: Black U.S. president would be `extraordinary'
Post by: Chris_ on November 02, 2008, 12:17:56 PM

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I think that it would be an extraordinary thing if, in the largest economy in the world, a black were elected president of the United States,'' he said.

That way we can truly see how bad Socialism is.  Because in this case "black" means "black socialist."

Title: Re: Lula da Silva: Black U.S. president would be `extraordinary'
Post by: whiffleball on November 02, 2008, 01:09:44 PM

So it'd be extraordinary.  BFD.  That does not equate to 'good for the country' and I don't give a shit what a Brazilian thinks.