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| Peshawar children pay donation to Obama for peace |
| 2008-10-30 |
| Pakistani schoolchildren who donated money for US presidential candidate Barack Obama's campaign are demanding an end to bombings in the Tribal Areas, calling for the Democrat to "provide us education instead of bombing our land". "Uncle Obama, we expect peace from you," read a placard held by the group of nine children who donated $261. The children -- six boys and three girls aged between eight and 13 -- told journalists at the Peshawar Press Club that their small donation for Obama's election campaign was meant to highlight the unrest in NWFP and FATA. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #3 Consider it an investment. Just like the $100K wired to Mohammed Atta resulted in $10 billion (so far) in US aid to Pakistan + $billions more in logistics fees. |
| Posted by: ed 2008-10-30 12:33 |
| #2 Um, did anyone remember that it's illegal for American politicians to accept donations from foreign nationals, no matter how cute and cuddly? This is almost as repugnant as that story about Obama's indigent aunt in Boston sending him money she can't afford, while the bastard hasn't done a goddamn thing for her. This is one of the prime figures of his self-discovery of himself through his extended Kenyan family, living in public housing, crippled and apparently alone, wasting what money she has on paper-hope lottery tickets and her nephew's political campaign. I mean, think about this. The Pakistani children are trying to literally pay Obama tribute. You know what tribute is, right? It's a bribe offered in exchange for sparing a land from the hard hand of war. Meanwhile, a woman whose exploitation was part of Obama's financial success with Dreams of My Father is wasting what few pennies she has to help finance her miserable, selfish shit of a nephew's campaign to become God-King of the world. |
| Posted by: Mitch H. 2008-10-30 08:21 |
| #1 PT Barnum's axiom applies even to Peshawar: There is a sucker born every minute. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul in Sitka, AK 2008-10-30 00:11 |