Gadafy denounces Barack Obama

[AYOUB]

Gadafy denounces Barack Obama as 'black man with inferiority complex'

Ian Black, Middle East editorguardian.co.uk,Thursday June 12 2008

The Libyan leader, Muammar Gadafy, has reinforced his reputation for plain and provocative speaking by suggesting that Barack Obama is a black man with an "inferiority complex" and might behave "worse than whites" if he becomes president of the United States.

Gadafy's striking non-endorsement of the Democratic candidate focused in part on Obama's pledge of "unshakeable" support for Israel, which caused dismay, if not surprise, across the Arab and Muslim worlds last week.

"Obama's announcement that a unified Jerusalem should be the eternal capital of Israel and that he will support it with $30bn during the next 10 years has disappointed our hopes and that of the Africans," Gadafy said in a speech marking the evacuation of the last US air base in Libya shortly after he seized power in a coup in 1969.

"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."

Obama should promise to give Africa the money Washington allocates to Israel to "build a dam on the Congo river to supply the whole African continent with power", 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," Gadafy said. "We tell him to be proud of himself as a black and feel that all Africa is behind him."

The man Ronald Reagan once denounced as a "mad dog" has cleaned up his act almost beyond recognition in recent years, halting support for terrorist groups, handing over the men accused of the Lockerbie bombing and paying compensation to its victims — while surrendering his nuclear weapons programme after the invasion of Iraq.

Freedom for the Bulgarian medics accused of infecting Libyan children with the Aids virus was the final hurdle to improved relations with the EU last year. Diplomatic relations with Washington were restored in 2006 after Gadafy became a quiet but valued ally in the US-led "war on terror".

In return he has seen western leaders and investors flock to Libya - Tony Blair was there briefly this week - though domestic political change in the Jamahiriyah (the "state of the masses") has not kept pace with its accelerating re-integration into the global economy.

In December, Gadafy was feted in grand style during a state visit to Paris, ferried around in a white limousine from a heated Bedouin-style tent pitched near the Elysée palace. His host, the French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, was criticised for playing down concerns about human rights while pursuing lucrative deals in Libya.

On Wednesday, at a mini-summit he convened in Tripoli, Gadafy dismissed a French proposal for a Euro-Mediterranean alliance as an insult to Arabs and Africans. "This is taking us for fools," he said. "We do not belong to Brussels. Our Arab League is located in Cairo and the African Union is located in Addis Ababa. If they want cooperation they have to go through Cairo and Addis Ababa."

Overall, though, he struck a less confrontational tone: Libya's past conflicts with Washington were due "to bad management" from both sides, Gadafy admitted. "The United States have learned their lessons and so have we."

No comment was forthcoming from the Obama campaign, but it seems unlikely that Tripoli will not be an early port of call if the Illinois Democrat does end up in the White House next year.

[LayZie G.]

I agree with Gadafy.

 

Furthermore, Obama is shady. His last book is a testament to the type of character he will be once he takes office.

 

 

PS: If you don't believe me, go read it for yourselves.

[STOIC]

^^^^^ Debbie Downer , you still don't beleive in Obama don't you?

[LANDER]

Gada-who?

[Peace Action]

Gaddafi is simply the worest leader in the Arab world and possible Africa. He squandered the wealth of Libya instead of being on bar with the Gulf countries, Libya is behind even Ghana in west Africa. He does not matter much and his opinion matters less.

 

Lazie have you been drinking cool aide from Hillary. Hilary is gone so don't let the train leave you behind. Obama for President and a new dawn for the USA.

[Emperor]

This I believe is a publicity stunt for Obama alone, deep inside Gadafi likes this man, let's wait and see his reaction when Obama is elected US President...

[General Duke]

I denounce Ghadafi.

[Emperor]

^Lol how so my man, you denounce Gadafi for Obama?

 

Gadafi has done a lot for AFrican and Somalia, what has Obama got to offer

[General Duke]

^^^Obama is giving all the minorites a chance to dream. So I denounce Ghadafi, Castro and ayone who denounces Mr Barack Hussain Obama.

 

lool.