22 January 2009 - 16H50
- Barack Obama - French politics

Can France have its own Obama?
Melissa Bell interviews Olivier Ferrand, the President of the think tank Terra Nova, the writer and editor Charles Dantzig, and the Herald Tribune’s Alison Smale about the possible impact of Obama’s presidency on the French system.

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PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

I believe you guys have the best resources in as far as money and fact finding is concerned. Of note the presenter says that Obama was a son of a refugee from Kenya? It should be noted that Obama snr was a student in Hawaii and thats where he met Obama's mother. It is rather sad that to many Europeans the Africans in the diaspora must have a mark of a REFUGEE or ASYLEE in order to qualify or justify being in the west.

PLEASE GET YOUR FACTS STRAIGHT.

I believe you guys have the best resources in as far as money and fact finding is concerned. Of note the presenter says that Obama was a son of a refugee from Kenya? It should be noted that Obama snr was a student in Hawaii and thats where he met Obama's mother. It is rather sad that to many Europeans the Africans in the diaspora must have a mark of a REFUGEE or ASYLEE in order to qualify or justify being in the west.

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