Liberian Girls...

Michelle, her mother and the two Obama girls visit... Liberia.
Where they encounter... Mayor Eddie Murphy.
And... classes are cancelled!  All to spread Michelle's message to African girls that it is important to stay in school to prepare their minds to meet the world.

 (You couldn't write this kind of comedy if you tried...  And dig the way NBC worked "mother land" into their headline...)

Michelle Obama, Daughters, and Mother Land in Liberia for Visit

First lady Michelle Obama landed in Africa on Monday with her daughters and her mother for an overseas trip promoting education for girls, starting with a country recovering from the recent Ebola epidemic.

The Obamas were welcomed in Liberia's capital with a red carpet and traditional dancers wearing the red, white and blue colors of both the American and Liberian flags. They also will visit Morocco and Spain.

While in Liberia, the first lady will meet with the president of the West African country, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the continent's first elected female head of state.
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The Obamas then visit a leadership camp for girls in the town of Kakata.
"People are going to consider her to be a sister to them," Mayor Eddie Murphy said. "We are overwhelmed."

A main topic of the trip is how to address the barriers facing girls trying to get an education after the Ebola outbreak. More than 4,800 people died in Liberia, and children missed several months of school.
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The Obamas' last stop in Liberia is at a school in Unification Town to speak with adolescent girls, according to Tina Tchen, the first lady's chief of staff.
 
Founded as part of an effort to resettle freed American slaves, Liberia has deep ties to the United States. The country's oldest technical and vocational high school, located in Kakata, is named for the African-American educator and civil rights activist Booker T. Washington.

The school suspended mid-term exams scheduled to start Monday "to allow the students to give Mrs. Obama a rousing welcome to appreciate what the United States has done for us," principal Harris Tarnue said.

"She will be a real inspiration to the young girls around here," he said.

 Now I'm sure Michelle and the girls will visit the South Side someday soon, to inspire the living little girls there, in America, to keep up hope despite the lack of progress by her husband's administration.  They're not global elites, afterall.  They are American girls...

Well, she was an American girl
Raised on promises
She couldn't help thinkin'
That there was a little more to life somewhere else.

After all it was a great big world
With lots of places to run to...

 Now don't be jealous of Michelle.  What can she tell those Liberian young ladies?  Marry well and pin your hopes to a man who might one day become president? Personally, I think the trips outside of America are her payoff for staying sweet, smiling and standing by her man.

Do you think she'll be qualified to one day run for president herself?  How many miles is she racking up on these foreign visits anyway?  Surely somebody is keeping track...