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Charlotte fund raiser helps Liberia education
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Sirleaf, the first woman elect
ed president of an Afiican
nation, was keynote speaker
at die N.C. Conference for
Women at the Convention
Center. Also appealing at the
conference were Bennett
College President Johnetta
Cole and U.S. Sen. Elizabeth
Dole.
During h^ Charlotte visit,
Johnson-Sirleaf toured the
Afro-American Cultural
Center and the Performance
Learning Center, a non-tradi-
tionai high school where stu
dents are encouraged to learn
at their own pace using a
computer-based curriculum.
Johnson-Sirleafs U.S. tour with Treasury Secretary d®bt relief for Liberia, which Sirleaf told The Analyst the
went beyond education and John Snow and Intemationd owes $3.7 biUion to credi- process of debt reduction is
women’s empowerment. She Monetary Fimd Managing tors.The coimtry owes $104 slow, but hopes an agreemeoit
spent a week negotiating Director Rodrigo deRato for billion to the IMP. Johnson- can be worked out next year.
'A Ufitime of health starts here.
Obama considers
presidential mn
Obama
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First, he was asked about
bipartisan attempts by for
mer Indiana Congressman
Lee Hamilton and .former
Secretary of State James
Baker to brir^
more interna
tional partners
into the effort
to rebuild Iraq.
Obama
called for “a
renewed real
ism arormd our
foreign poUcy
and a recognition that bxfild-
ing alliances doesn’t reflect
weakness, it reflects our
strength. We can defeat any
nation on EaiHi but rebuild
ing democracies and creating
order involves everybody”
Two predictable questions,
posed in difierent ways, were
directed to Obama about his
thoio^ts on running for pres
ident in 2008. Althoi^ he
didn’t rule out the possibility
Obama said such questions
are premature and his focus
is on this year’s election.
“I have actually focused on
trying to get more Democrats
in the House and Senate so I
can get a bfll passed,” he
joked. “As a ihember of the
Illinois Legislature and as a
U.S. senator, Fve been in both
the minority and the majori
ty and being in the majority
is more fun.”
On a serious note, he added
that efforts to address issues
like providh^ health care for
children, controlling energy
costs and finding a pragmatic
way to ‘bring the troops
home” can’t be accomplished
until there’s “some balance”
in Washington.
‘People are responding to
the fact that we have an ideo
logically driven group that
has consolidated power and
has lost touch with what ordi
nary people want,” he stated.
Obama, who was bom in
1961, was asked about his
party’s commitment to edu
cating people about new laws
passed by some states
(including Indiana) that
require voters to show a form
of photo ID at the poUs. He
said minorities, low-income
persons and seniors who are
less likely to have a birth cer
tificate or driver’s license are
all burdened by it.
“It’s constitutionally prob
lematic and I suspect that it
will be challenged,” Obama
said. “I am confident the
Democrats will arsure that
we’ve got lawyers and others
onsite in all polling places to
make sure that the right to
vote is protected. However,
another concern is people
who have Ihe ID to vote and
just aren’t doing it because
they feel too cynical about the
political process.”
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