was always suspect to me!

Once again I’ve stumbled on another interesting article . So somehow Gaddafi suggests that Obama has an inferiority complex which steams from none other than Obama’s African roots.

Pause, is this the same idiot that for the last 5 plus years has tried to champion the cause of a United Africa and the idea that “we are all Africans” and that “together we’re unstoppable” blah blah blah…When I think of a powerful force I think of either an entity with no weakness (inferiorities) or whose strengths vastly overshadows its weaknesses. So in the case of a United Africa would his Arab people’s superiority overshadow the inferiority that is found in the “Africans”?? Well Col. Gaddafi go ahead and insert that military boot of your’s in your mouth.

Seriously we all know his United Africa talk was good old mouth mouth. The Colonel has done very little to quell the maltreatment of Sub-Saharan Africans that emigrate to Lybia, and we won’t even explore his history of destabilization in places like Chad and his funding of Monsters like Charles Taylor. Furthermore was this not the same kat in the 80s that wanted a Pan-Arab union in the Sahel region of Africa?

I guess that Pan-African flavor of ice cream he now chosen is his last attempt at being relevant which unfortunately he no longer is. Anyway I have no problem with Gaddafi criticizing Obama’s foreign policy but it has nothing to do with a black inferiority complex, that has everything to do with Obama being an American politician who wants to be President…well on to the article–>

Libya’s leader has strongly criticised US presidential candidate Barack Obama for saying Jerusalem should remain the undivided capital of Israel.

Col Muammar Gaddafi said he was either ignorant of the Middle East conflict or lying to boost his campaign.

Mr Obama was speaking to pro-Israel lobbyists in the US last week.

Referring to him as “our Kenyan brother”, Col Gaddafi also said Mr Obama might suffer from an inferiority complex because of his African origins.

The issue of race could make Mr Obama’s behaviour “more white than white people”, Col Gaddafi suggested, rather than acting in solidarity with African and Arab nations.

The comments came during a speech to mark the 38th anniversary since the US evacuated Wheelus Air Force base in Tripoli.

Israel claims Jerusalem as its “eternal, undivided” capital, but the Palestinians want the eastern half – occupied by Israel in 1967 – as the capital of a future Palestinian state.

The Americans left Libya shortly after Col Gaddafi came into power in a bloodless coup in 1969.

‘Campaign lie’

The BBC’s Rana Jawad in Tripoli says the speech was a passionate critique of past US policies towards Libya but emphasised that current relations are not confrontational.

We tell him to be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him
Col Gaddafi

However, Col Gaddafi’s defiant and famously politically incorrect rhetoric returned when talking about Mr Obama towards the end of the speech.
“The statements of our Kenyan brother of American nationality Obama on Jerusalem… show that he either ignores international politics and did not study the Middle East conflict or that it is a campaign lie,” he said.

“We fear that Obama will feel that, because he is black with an inferiority complex, this will make him behave worse than the whites.”

“This will be a tragedy,” Gaddafi said. “We tell him to be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him.”

Conspiracy theory

Mr Obama’s epic primary campaign against Democratic rival Hillary Clinton ended in his victory early this month.

The presidential election will be in November.

Correspondents say he has largely avoided playing on past racial struggles in the US and has drawn support among black and white Americans.

In addition, Mr Gaddafi suggested Mr Obama’s comments may have been informed by a fear of assassination by Israeli agents, “the same fate as [former US President John F] Kennedy when he promised to look into Israel’s nuclear programme”.

Conspiracy theories abound about Kennedy’s assassination in 1963, which the US authorities say was carried out by a lone gunman, Lee Harvey Oswald.

Story from BBC NEWS:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/pr/fr/-/2/hi/middle_east/7450000.stm

Published: 2008/06/12 08:23:57 GMT

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