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Preparing for Obama: LE50,000 to polish up Cairo U dome!

Posted on By 3arabawy

The Giza Governorate, known for its notorious corruption and refusal to invest in sanitation and infra structure citing “lack of funds,” has an “open budget” however to prepare for Obama’s visit. In other words they have a green light to spend whatever necessary to beautify the places Obama’s parade will pass through. Already Mr. Ahmad Nassar, the head of Cleaning and Beautification Agency (yeah, that’s its name!), stated to Al-Masry Al-Youm “expensive flowers” will be planted around the Nahdet Masr statue, and moreover, “LE50,000 are allocated to polishing the Cairo University dome.”

So, no money to subsidize the students’ books, but they have LE50,000 to polish up the dome?!! No money to lift up the garbage from the Giza slums, but an “open budget” to plant expensive shit to receive Obama!??! What can I say except: A7A!

Egyptians to Obama: You suck!

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Via the Tribune…

A poll of six Arab nations that McClatchy Newspapers has sponsored in conjunction with Ipsos polling has found that Obama is well-regarded in some.
Ironically, Obama’s standing appears lowest, among these nations, in Egypt, which the White House named last week as the location of the president’s June 4 address.
“Obama scored highest in Jordan, where 58 percent … have a favorable opinion of him, 29 percent have an unfavorable view, 6 percent had no opinion and 7 percent didn’t know,” McClatchy’s Bill Douglas reports.
“Saudi Arabians have a 53 percent favorable opinion of Obama, followed by 52 percent in the United Arab Emirates,” Douglas reports. “From there, Obama’s popularity dips, with a 47 percent favorability rating in Kuwait, 43 percent in Lebanon and 35 percent in Egypt.”