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<?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="http://blog.newsweek.com/utility/FeedStylesheets/rss.xsl" media="screen"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:slash="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/slash/" xmlns:wfw="http://wellformedweb.org/CommentAPI/"><channel><title>Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx</link><description>President Obama has arrived in Ghana, the final stop of his week-long three country trip abroad. Air Force One touched down in Accra just before midnight local time. Because of the late hour, there was no official arrival ceremony—though he and his family</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><generator>CommunityServer 2.1 SP2 (Debug Build: 2.18)</generator><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1079852</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 04:13:34 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1079852</guid><dc:creator>Tan Boon Tee</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;There is a direct correlation between governance and prosperity. Well said.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;But will it matter?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Some leaders in poor countries desire more aid, perhaps primarily for fattening their own pockets. Do the suffering mass matter?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;In this maddening world of greed, people especially the powerful go for instant power and wealth, could the aid matter?&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Please THINK.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;(tanboontee)&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1080115</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 13:58:44 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1080115</guid><dc:creator>austin c</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Pres. Obama just follow George W. Bush who was there with very warm welcome while he was not well liked at home and elsewhere in the world.&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1080406</link><pubDate>Sat, 11 Jul 2009 18:20:25 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1080406</guid><dc:creator>Dredd</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Is he going to close Ghana Tana Mo Bey?&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1081888</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:55:04 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1081888</guid><dc:creator>citizenPZ</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;Go Michael!!&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/whoaretheworld/"&gt;http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/whoaretheworld/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1081890</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:55:41 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1081890</guid><dc:creator>citizenPZ</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In January 1985, Harvard alum Ken Kragen personally coordinated the gathering of 45 recording artists to sing &amp;quot;We are the World,&amp;quot; which was co-written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. Proceeds from the record went to United Support of Artists for Africa, a charity Kragen founded to help fight famine and poverty in the developing world, and hunger and homelessness here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that there is renewed interest in the song due to the death of Michael Jackson, see if you can match the names to the faces in the photo taken during the collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1081891</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:55:52 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1081891</guid><dc:creator>citizenPZ</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;In January 1985, Harvard alum Ken Kragen personally coordinated the gathering of 45 recording artists to sing &amp;quot;We are the World,&amp;quot; which was co-written by Michael Jackson and Lionel Richie. Proceeds from the record went to United Support of Artists for Africa, a charity Kragen founded to help fight famine and poverty in the developing world, and hunger and homelessness here.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;Now that there is renewed interest in the song due to the death of Michael Jackson, see if you can match the names to the faces in the photo taken during the collaboration.&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1081892</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:56:12 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1081892</guid><dc:creator>citizenPZ</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;where's the birth certificate???&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1081893</link><pubDate>Sun, 12 Jul 2009 21:56:47 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1081893</guid><dc:creator>citizenPZ</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/whoaretheworld/"&gt;http://www.boston.com/business/gallery/whoaretheworld/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1082072</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 01:15:53 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1082072</guid><dc:creator>Dredd</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;CitizenPZ you need to get out of the house more often.&lt;/p&gt;
&lt;p&gt;&lt;a rel="nofollow" target="_new" href="http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/07/holder-of-house-of-cards.html"&gt;http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2009/07/holder-of-house-of-cards.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1082114</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:06:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1082114</guid><dc:creator>downsteamjim</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I was hoping he would go to Kenya and give his brother some new cardboard boxes for his shack. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1082115</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 02:06:37 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1082115</guid><dc:creator>downsteamjim</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I was hoping he would go to Kenya and give his brother some new cardboard boxes for his shack. &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1082409</link><pubDate>Mon, 13 Jul 2009 13:48:01 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1082409</guid><dc:creator>brydges</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I saw his speech and you left out the part about entrepreneurship and corruption. How contradictory it was to his policies of the past few months was disturbing. His narcissism shows more and more everyday&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1084867</link><pubDate>Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:56:59 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1084867</guid><dc:creator>Dharmesta</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;different from &amp;nbsp; George w. bush Obama understands soft diplomacy well, &amp;nbsp;he can fix America's tarnished image &amp;nbsp;&lt;/p&gt;
</description><category>Blog: The Gaggle</category></item><item><title>re: Why Obama Chose Ghana</title><link>http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2009/07/10/why-obama-chose-ghana.aspx#1086150</link><pubDate>Sun, 19 Jul 2009 10:02:15 GMT</pubDate><guid isPermaLink="false">544c64cf-7058-4151-925a-a0fd041e73dd:1086150</guid><dc:creator>miahson</dc:creator><description>&lt;p&gt;I become overwhelmed with laughter reading the angry posts of racists and haters. &amp;nbsp;President Obama is indeed black, and he is indeed our President. Yep! &amp;nbsp;Too much whining is dangerous for your health. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha.........................................................&lt;/p&gt;
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