Firoze Manji, editor-in-chief of Pambazuka News, presents the speech he wishes President Obama had given in Ghana. This is all well and good and unobjectionable. But this is, of course, not the speech that Obama gave and it is usually better to deal with the world as it is than the world as we wish it was. Or as my old high school football coach always used to tell us, “wish in one hand and [defecate] in the other, and guess which one fills up faster?”
