Killjoy
08-07-09, 01:55 PM
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Git on the friggin' CHANGE bandwagon, you goddam Mongoloid Rooskies !
SREDNYAYA AKHTUBA, Russia (AP) -- An African-born farmer is making an improbable run for office in Russia, inspired by President Barack Obama and undaunted by racial attitudes that have changed little in decades.
Joaquim Crima, a 37-year-old native of Guinea Bissau who settled in southern Russia after earning a degree at a local university, is promising to battle corruption and bring development to his district on the Volga River.
In Russia, a black man running for office is so unusual that Crima is being called "the Russian Obama."
"I like Obama as a person and as a politician because he proved to the world what everyone thought was impossible. I think I can learn some things from him," Crima said, sitting on his shady verandah in this town of 11,000, where he lives with his wife Anait, their 10-year-old son and an extended clan of ethnic Armenian relatives...
...Crima, who came to Russia in 1989 and holds a degree from Volgograd State Pedagogical University, believes he has what it takes to fix problems in his district, where some residents still lack potable water and use outhouses. Unpaved streets, where goats graze, turn to mud after a rain.
About 55,000 people live in the district's 18 villages and towns.
http://www.thegrio.com/2009/08/the-russian-obama----african-born-farmer-runs-for-office.php
Git on the friggin' CHANGE bandwagon, you goddam Mongoloid Rooskies !
SREDNYAYA AKHTUBA, Russia (AP) -- An African-born farmer is making an improbable run for office in Russia, inspired by President Barack Obama and undaunted by racial attitudes that have changed little in decades.
Joaquim Crima, a 37-year-old native of Guinea Bissau who settled in southern Russia after earning a degree at a local university, is promising to battle corruption and bring development to his district on the Volga River.
In Russia, a black man running for office is so unusual that Crima is being called "the Russian Obama."
"I like Obama as a person and as a politician because he proved to the world what everyone thought was impossible. I think I can learn some things from him," Crima said, sitting on his shady verandah in this town of 11,000, where he lives with his wife Anait, their 10-year-old son and an extended clan of ethnic Armenian relatives...
...Crima, who came to Russia in 1989 and holds a degree from Volgograd State Pedagogical University, believes he has what it takes to fix problems in his district, where some residents still lack potable water and use outhouses. Unpaved streets, where goats graze, turn to mud after a rain.
About 55,000 people live in the district's 18 villages and towns.
http://www.thegrio.com/2009/08/the-russian-obama----african-born-farmer-runs-for-office.php