Occupy Wall Street Prostesters Heckle Obama

[Abdul Karim Bangura]

Protesters heckle Obama at fundraiser. What did they sing? (The Christian Science Monitor)

Washington – President Obama loves having protesters disrupt a big-dollar fundraiser and interrupt his train of thought. Or at least he thought the stunt at a fundraiser in San Francisco Thursday morning was “funny,” according to White House Press Secretary Jay Carney.

“You don’t get that every day,” Mr. Obama said after the event, per Mr. Carney, who spoke to reporters on Air Force One as they flew to their next gig in Reno, Nev.

Here’s what happened at the $35,800-a-ticket event at the St. Regis Hotel in San Francisco, according to pool reporter Carol Lee of The Wall Street Journal: Obama was in the middle of his remarks when a woman in a white suit stood up and said, “Mr. President, we wrote you

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[Abdul Karim Bangura]

[Biko Agozino]

ACHEBE’S REJECTION OF THE THIRD HIGHEST NATIONAL HONOUR TWICE.

By Dr. Biko Agozino

Achebe has again rejected the ‘third highest national honour’, CFR, from a second Nigerian President to make that offer to him in a row. The first time he was offered the honour by President Obasanjo, he turned it down on the ground that with the lack of attention to his thesis on The Trouble With Nigeria that he published decades ago during a period of his active participation in politics as the National Secretary of the Peoples Redemption Party, he did not see how the acceptance of a third highest national honor would make any difference to the suffering masses.

President Jonathan has just offered him the same prize and again Achebe turned it down with the remark that what is holding us down as a nation is still holding us down and so we should not dignify our incompetence in the face of abundant resources with the third highest national honor. President Jonathan did not understand this simple proverb of the wordsmith and so he came out with the allegation that the great writer is out of touch with reality. During the reign of Abacha, a Nigerian foreign minister used the same illogic to dismiss the campaigns of Wole Soyinka by telling journalists at the Commonwealth meeting in Edinburgh that Soyinka is a fiction writer who makes up things... (Please follow link below to read on and or leave a comment).

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