As an American President you would think he would shy away from giving props to communist dictators…oh wait…. I meant any American president with half a brain would shy away from such statements. That is unless he truly thinks socialist policies make things better….oh, damn.

President Barack Obama toasted the founding dictator of post-colonial Tanzania on Monday, who collectivized the nation’s low-tech agricultural sector, established a one-party state and left that African nation’s economy in ruins.

“[Y]ou might say an American child is my child. We might say a Tanzanian child is my child,” Obama said after quoting the Tanzanian saying “my neighbor’s child is my child.”

“In this way, both of our nations will be looking after all of our children and we’ll be living out the vision of President [Julius] Nyerere,” Obama continued.

OK, I can see where this is headed. Didn’t MSNBC talking head Melissa Harris-Perry spew that same kind of BS about “our children”?
‘These are our children.’ So part of it is, we have to break through our kind of private idea that kids belong to their parents, or kids belong to their families, and recognize that kids belong to whole communities. Once it’s everybody’s responsibility, and not just the household’s, then we start making better investments.”  _ Melissa Harris-Perry

Obama continues:

“The core values that he proclaimed for Tanzania also describe what both our countries seek — wisdom, unity, and peace — Hekima, Umoja, na Amani,” Obama said at a state dinner, held at 9.00 p.m. local time.

So an African nations socialist agenda is what America’s core values are? Who knew?

“So what I’d like to do is to propose a toast … to our gracious Tanzanian hosts, to our Tanzanian friends and to wisdom, unity and peace that we all seek in the world.  Cheers,” he told the invitees at the dinner, which took place in the Tanzanian capital, Dar es Salaam.

That ujamaa policy was very fashionable among U.S. and European progressives in the 1980s, when Obama was attending Colombia University and Harvard University. But it wrecked the nation’s economy, just as similar socialist planning wrecked the partly-developed economies of numerous African countries after European powers gave up their territorial claims in the continent. From the 1950s to the 1970s, socialist-themed policies crippled the economies of Kenya, Uganda, Egypt, Somalia, Ethiopia and several other African countries.

In Tanazania, Nyerere “was succeeded by the president of Zanzibar, Ali Mwinyi, who oversaw political reforms and a gradual transition to a market economy, in part due to economic collapse brought on by ujamaa and centralized economic management,” says the CRS report.

Oh I see what you did there Mr. Nyerere, you turned an industry into a collective, became a one-party state, and ruined a nations economy. If that sounds familiar, look no further than the man who gave the toast.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2013/07/01/obama-toasts-failed-african-socialist/#ixzz2XpXFh2XL