Ego-in-Chief strikes again!

[Conservative]

What an egotistical jackass our current president is.

State Department replacing online country profiles, highlighting Obama policies

The State Department has started to replace its just-the-facts online profiles of foreign countries with new ones that appear to largely highlight U.S. relations since President Obama took office -- a move that comes on top of efforts to update the official profiles of past presidents with Obama-themed factoids.

The detailed overviews on foreign countries known as "background notes" are being replaced by what the State Department is calling "fact sheets." The fact sheets are generally shorter, and focus more on modern developments.

For example, the previous State Department profile on Brazil was 4,100 words and included a litany of facts about the country's history and demographic details.

It has since been replaced with a 2,100-word version that no longer includes such analytical information as the country's size, population and gross domestic product. However, the new U.S. embassy-written version twice mentions Obama by name and cites several of his initiatives.

The new profiles for at least five sub-Sahara African countries make no mention of the program started by President George W. Bush in 2004 to fight the AIDS epidemic in that region. The previous profile for Tanzania, for example, noted Bush's efforts and that the program -- called the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief -- had through 2011 helped provide $1.8 billion for HIV and AIDS care and prevention.

However, the new profiles for Tanzania and Uganda mention only "the president's efforts" to combat AIDS.

Over at the South Africa page, though, the Obama administration's movement on the anti-AIDS front is prominent.

"In 2010, Secretary Clinton and South African Prime Minister Maite Nkoana-Mashabane signed a Partnership Framework, creating a five-year plan to tackle HIV/AIDS in South Africa through the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR)," the site says.

 

[AmyNation]

Rerunning old stories, odd.

 

[Conservative]

Rerunning old stories, odd.

Not an old story. Editing the profiles of previous presidents to highlight Obama himself, is an old story. Now, they are doing it to profiles of foreign countries, too.

 

[AmyNation]

Ah, my mistake.

Meh it's silly to do, and silly to complain about IMO.

 

[Zander]

His new campaign poster...ain't he awesome!!

 

[Katzndogz]

The old story was rewriting the biographies of past presidents. This is rewriting national histories.