{"id":46394,"date":"2013-06-29T11:30:36","date_gmt":"2013-06-29T10:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/anti-obama-protests-threaten-to-derail-white-houses-planned-mandela-photo-op\/46394\/"},"modified":"2013-06-29T11:30:36","modified_gmt":"2013-06-29T10:30:36","slug":"anti-obama-protests-threaten-to-derail-white-houses-planned-mandela-photo-op","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/breaking-news\/anti-obama-protests-threaten-to-derail-white-houses-planned-mandela-photo-op\/","title":{"rendered":"Anti-Obama Protests threaten to derail White House\u2019s planned Mandela Photo-op"},"content":{"rendered":"
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As Barack Obama and his family continue their $100 million<\/strong> taxpayer-funded African safari junket this month, it\u00a0seems like a given \u00a0that the White House will cynically attempt to seize the PR opportunity that exists \u2014 to place the US President next to the ailing 94-year-old global icon, Nelson Mandela<\/strong>, to stage a high-profile, touching photo-op in Pretoria \u2014 a move designed to boost Obama\u2019s rapidly sinking international credibility.<\/p>\n

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THE AFRICAN KING: Hail Caesar \u2014 Obama positioning himself for career as special Africa UN envoy after 2016.<\/em>
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Who would have ever expected that the South Africans themselves would step in to throw a massive spanner in Ben Rhodes and David Axelrod\u2019s PR spin cycle.<\/p>\n

In Pretoria, hundreds of people were demonstrating today against a visit by\u00a0U.S.<\/a>\u00a0President Barack Obama,\u00a0burning the U.S. flag in protest and calling out Obama as\u00a0\u201carrogant and oppressive\u201d<\/strong>. Between the drone assassinations, Benghazi stand-down orders, the IRS scandal, the gun-running to al Qaeda in Syria and the NSA shamelessly spying on Americans \u2014 there can be little argument that these protesters are echoing the sentiments of Americans.<\/strong>
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TAKING ADVANTAGE: White House eyeing a PR bounce \u2014 by aligning Obama with the ailing Mandela.<\/em>
The most expensive holiday in world history<\/strong><\/p>\n

As austerity and budget haranguing\u00a0dominates the US domestic agenda, America\u2019s Royal Family has taken a blank check to fund the most expensive presidential holiday in US, if not world history. The envelope includes hundreds of U.S. Secret Service agents \u00a0dispatched to secure facilities in Senegal, South Africa and Tanzania, as well as a Navy aircraft carrier, amphibious ships, a mobile medical trauma center,\u00a0Fighter jets flying 24-hour shifts,\u00a0military cargo planes to airlift in 56 support vehicles, 14 limousines, and three trucks loaded with sheets of bullet-proof glass to cover the windows of the hotels where the first family are staying.

<\/em>This African adventure, more than any other event during his Presidency, shows how out of touch both the President and his White House truly are, lavishing off the public purse in a way that would embarrass even Julius Caesar<\/em>\u00a0\u2026<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

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