Barack Obama

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Official Congressional portrait, 2005

Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is the 44th president of the United States. He took office on January 20, 2009. Obama is a member of the Democratic Party and won the United States presidential election of November 4, 2008.

Nobel Peace Prize

Barack Obama was awarded the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize "for his extraordinary efforts to strengthen international diplomacy and cooperation between peoples".[1] Obama accepted this award in Oslo, Norway on December 10, 2009, with "deep gratitude and great humility."[2]

War of Terror

A couple of days before collecting his peace prize, Obama announced a "surge"(i.e. an increase, what was referred to in the Vietnam War as an "escalation") in troop numbers in the ongoing US invasion of Afghanistan.[3] Assassination without judicial process has become a routine part of US foreign policy under Obama. Not long becoming president, he arranged what senior US officials called "Terror Tuesdays" in which he personally selects people for assassination by drone strikes. Jeremy Scahill noted that "One of the enduring legacies of Obama's presidency is how he has normalised assassination as a central component of what is called America's national security policy"[4] Obama is reported to have told his aides while discussing drone strikes that he’s "really good at killing people".[5]

Nuclear Weapons

Obama has pledged to reduce the world’s stockpile of nuclear arms, whilst seeking to increase funding for nuclear weapons research. In 2010 he sought to expand the US nuclear budget and in October 2013, his Assistant Defense Secretary Madelyn Creedon told a panel in the U.S. House of Representatives that "modernization work of this kind is expensive, but there is no doubt that the investment ... is necessary", explaining why multi-billion dollar expenditure was needed to modernize the US nuclear arsenal in pursuit of President Barack Obama's goal of reducing it.[6][7]

French State Visit

French State Visit to the USA, February 2014

Issue № 1360 of Private Eye magazine reported on the February 2014 State Visit by French President François Hollande to the United States giving this verbatim account (in Franglais) of his welcome at the White House by President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama.

Président Obama (pour c’est lui): Bonjour Monsieur Hollande-Saucy, et bienvenue à la Maison Blanche. Puis-je vous introduce ma femme, Michelle?
Hollande: Ah, Michelle, ma belle, comme les Beatles chantent!
Michelle: Enchantée, Monsieur Hollande-Saucy. Vous êtes si charmant!
Hollande: Mwah, mwah, mwah.
Obama: Ça c’est enough de ça, vous pouvez stop kissing sa main maintenant.
Hollande: Mais nous avons un relationship spécial.
Obama: Pas avec ma femme, buddy! C’est un relationship platonique.
Michelle: Comme votre relationship avec Beyoncé!
Obama: Honnêtement, j’ai never even remarqué sa bootie fabuleuse...
Michelle: Et what about la Première Ministre Danois, la blonde shell de bombe, qui took le selfie avec vous dans le middle de la très sérieuse funèbre de Monsieur Mandela?
Hollande: Mon dieu, vous êtes worse que la Rottweiler! Si je voulais écouter un argument domestique, je would’ve rester dans le Palais de l’Élysée.
Obama: Alors, down to le business. La France est une ally très importante, parce que... (il consulte ses notes), er, nous standons together, excepté dans les recent guerres varieuses quand vous étiez les fromage-mangeant surrender singes!
Hollande: Sacré blue! C’est très unfair. Nous sommes épaule à épaule avec vous.
Michelle: Non, votre nez est dans ma cleavage.
Hollande: Oh, pardon. Force d’habite. Mais, sérieusement, Monsieur Président, vous sûrement prefer nous Français aux sales rosbifs Anglais?
Obama: Non, non... (il consulte les notes encore)... je pense de vous également, comme je pense de mes daughters.
Hollande: Vous avez daughters? Ooh là là! Est-ce qu’elles sont locked up?
Michelle: Quoi?
Hollande: Je suis pied-loose et fancie-libre!
Michelle: Vous devez être locked up, Monsieur Randy Grénouille avec les glasses et le moped.
Obama: Assez, chérie, nous ne voulons pas un incident diplomatique. Laissons-nous exchanger les gifts.
Michelle: Voilà, pour vous un symbol de l’union de nos deux great cultures – un Grand Mac avec Fries Françaises.
Hollande: Magnifique! Et maintenant mon gift à toi, Michelle.
Michelle: Qu’est-ce que c’est?
Hollande: C’est mon numéro de téléfon.

Fin de relationship spécial.

References

  1. ↑ "The Nobel Peace Prize 2009". Nobel Foundation. Archived from the original on October 10, 2009. Retrieved October 9, 2009. Cite uses deprecated parameter |deadurl= (help)Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css must have content model "Sanitized CSS" for TemplateStyles (current model is "Scribunto").
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  3. ↑ http://www.workerspower.net/nobel-peace-prize-winner-obama-launches-afghan-surge
  4. ↑ http://www.theguardian.com/world/defence-and-security-blog/2013/may/13/dirty-wars-drones
  5. ↑ http://www.businessinsider.com.au/obama-said-hes-really-good-at-killing-people-2013-11
  6. ↑ http://www.cryptogon.com/?p=13457
  7. ↑ http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/10/30/us-usa-defense-nuclear-idUSBRE99T00Y20131030
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