Don't Forget Your T-Shirt

It always amuses me when Americans trot around with those catchy t-shirts proclaiming their support of some issue in a third world country.

Remember the 'End Apartheid' shirts everyone wore in the early 90's? Well congrats to the t-shirt wearers. Apartheid ended in South Africa in 1993.

In 1994 they elected their first black President, Nelson Mandela.

Wait a minute....slavery ended in the United States in 1865. Why, I'll be darned, that's 143 years ago. Gosh we must have had 10 or twelve black Presidents since then, huh?

What did you say? Not even one?

Well that's ok you can only do so much and we have spent a lot of time working on Women's Rights. All those female Presidents must have paved the way. Heck, women have been able to vote for like 88 years. Wait, none of those either? Really?

But didn't Pakistan, you know, a Muslim country already have a female President? Why by golly they did, in 1988 to be exact.

Yeah you heard me 20 years ago. You know, all those poor third world Muslim countries that we are over there fighting to save from themselves. The ones that segregate women and make them remain covered at all times? Yeah even they elected a female President.

Well, this is kind of embarassing.

Can I get a t-shirt that says 'Free Obama'?