WHITE HOUSE NOTEBOOK: Nuttin’ but love for Obama in Jamaica

KINGSTON, Jamaica (AP) — President Barack Obama’s supporters often shout at him, “I love you!”

But Jamaican Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller didn’t have to raise her voice Thursday. She had prime seating beside Obama from which to declare her and her country’s love for him after they met privately during his first presidential visit to her island nation.

“I just want to say to you, you might not know, but you are very loved in this country,” Simpson Miller said, before describing how many Jamaicans mistakenly had lined the route they thought his motorcade would take after he arrived Wednesday evening.

“So I just wanted to say you’re well-loved in Jamaica,” she said. “Well, first of all I can say to you publicly, ‘I love you.'”

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