Obama Right to Tap Bush for Haiti Aid Effort
Like a child who begrudgingly has to invite his weird cousin to his birthday party, there are some things a president simply must do. So it must have been when President Obama asked George W. Bush to join with U.N. special envoy to Haiti Bill Clinton to raise funds for the earthquake-ravaged nation. (The three men will meet at the White House Saturday.) After all, despite Bush's formidable fundraising prowess, his presidential record on disaster response and Haiti in particular does not exactly inspire confidence.
That did not prevent the right-wing Heritage Foundation from calling on Obama Wednesday to seek "high-level, bipartisan leadership" for the Haiti relief campaign by choosing former President George W. Bush "to lead the bipartisan effort for the Republicans."
To be sure, "bipartisan" is not a word normally associated with George W. Bush. But fundraising surely is, as his record-breaking hauls in 2000 and 2004 from "Pioneers" and "Rangers" like Jack Abramoff and Enron's Ken Lay demonstrate. (The Clinton Bush Haiti Fund is already taking donations, contributions which apparently will be distributed by the Clinton Foundation.)
But when it comes to disaster preparedness and response, President Bush's experience was not a happy one.
Hurricane Katrina, after all, didn't merely devastate the Gulf Coast; as even his own closest aides admit, it largely washed away Bush's presidency. The indelible images of Katrina drowning New Orleans also include Bush sharing a birthday cake in Arizona with John McCain, strumming a guitar with Mark Wills, and ultimately staring blankly out the window of Air Force One. Even still, Bush's jaw-dropping claim that "I don't think anybody anticipated the breach of the levees" didn't sum up his catastrophic failure as much as the line that became the epitaph for his presidency:
"Brownie, you're doing a heck of a job."
The horrific December 2004 tsunami that killed a quarter of a million people across Asia, too, presented problems for President Bush. To be sure, the massive U.S. mobilization ultimately delivered $1 billion to Asian nations in need, an amount doubled by the private fundraising led by the President's father and Bill Clinton. (And to Bush's credit, that effort paid dividends in subsequent years, as public attitudes toward the United States in Muslim Indonesia improved substantially in the wake of American assistance there.) But as I noted at the time:
Much of the coverage and debate in the United States has centered around whether or not the initial U.S. $35 million aid package is, in the words of U.N emergency coordinator Jan Egeland, "stingy."
Given his Katrina experience, it came as no surprise that George W. Bush didn't show up at all when a cyclone washed over Burma in May 2008. That First Lady Laura Bush was trotted out in her husband's place to speak to the press raised eyebrows at the time:
Q: Mrs. Bush, why such an historic interest? This is a first, for a First Lady to come to this podium and talk about a cyclone. Why such a historic interest?
MRS. BUSH: Well, you know I've been interested in Burma for a long time. It started really with an interest in Aung San Suu Kyi and reading her works and just the story of a Nobel Prize winner who's been under house arrest for so long.
Then there's the uncomfortable matter of President George W. Bush's personal history with Haiti. In 2004, the United States stood by as chaos swept Haiti, ultimately forcing President Aristide from power. A popularly elected if corrupt official, whose election was made possible by the Clinton intervention in the mid-90's, was pushed aside by the Bush team.
At the end of the day, it is both right and fitting that President Obama turn to his predecessor to help raise money for the victims in Haiti, even if that means dragging Dubya away from his upcoming speaking engagement at the Safari Club International Annual Hunters' Convention designed to "replenish the ol' coffers." It's not merely a requirement of political decorum at a time of crisis. As George H.W. Bush showed in his joint appeals with Bill Clinton after the tsunami, the Bush family stepped up to the plate to make a difference.
The only caveat? Dubya should probably leave his mom at home. Speaking of "underprivileged" Katrina victims who made their way to Houston, Barbara Bush announced "this is working very well for them."
NOTE: Here are links to donate to the Clinton Bush Haiti Fund, the Red Cross, Mercy Corps and other organizations.)
(An earlier version of this post appeared at Perrspectives.)
Maybe Chimpy and "Beautiful Mind" Ma Barker Bush can take her big foul mouth down there and enslave the masses forever.
At least the Haitians will learn up front what an "Ugly" American is.
what the people of New Orleans already know. Your government won't save you. In a real crisis, you are on your own.
do you? ... i do...
really, GOOD government is a good thing... you'll see...
'course, YOU have to make it work, since YOU are the government...
convince people to quit voting for people who say they are against government...
now that I look back and reflect on my life. LOL . .
I thought we had it here and there, (a slim chance) but I was still younger and only concerned about myself despite all my attempts to convince myself I wasn't.
I am over 50 and a student of history and cannot name one time period in the 234 years of this Republic when we have had 'good government' or that YOU/(us) mattered.
A nation run by wealthy white males as directed by even wealthier white males has never served the people of this country well. You can look it up.
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if you are fortunate enough to get an education and kiss their asses you too can become one of their minions and maybe make a livable income.
That are educated, articulate, possess descent looks and play the game however, look at how many of our politicians are legacy. Babs 'Butch' Bush is Pierce blood as in Franklin which, was always a howl when that Idiot Bastard's Son W. would hide his blue blood lineage as a Texan.
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Government -- OUR government -- isn't perfect,but just looking at such things as the building codes, or lack of them, in a poor country such as Haiti in light of this horrific disaster doesn't turn some light bulb in your head on? From what Utopia are you typing this from?
We live in a nation that is 37th in health care.
No individual in their right frame of mind seeks Utopia from something as nebulous and prone to corruption as government and that's any government... China, Russia, France, Haiti. Their are those who rule (he who has the gold) and those who are ruled. That's the way of the world since the dawn of civilization. What is it about absolute power corrupting absolutely?
To say that the United States has had 'good government' during any one period of our history is to look back in time through beer goggles.
Pick the time period and discuss.
BTW... Building Codes are local ordinances as is zoning.
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everyone emigrate? Revolution? Or maybe we should just whine louder?
I think W was drafted into the Relief Effort to shut up people like Limbgag, or at least make his dirty lies obvious even to his "listeners". Perhaps Jon Stewart will mention Limby's Viagra-laden visits to the Dominican Republic, right next door to Haiti.
Politics with government. The premise of the thread is a time of "good government" in United States history which, I argue at the Federal level hasn't happened unless, you were brain washed in 5th grade history class.
Ah, nostalgia for a time that never existed.
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I lived in New Orleans during Katrina. The response was not fast, it was not complete, and it allowed profiteers to rape the city. Nevertheless, I lived off of MRE's for about a month and a half before any grocery stores reopened. I drank bottled water distributed by the US army, and I received immunizations at a community center. Like anything else, the government is only as good as we force it to be, and only as good as those we elect to represent us. Government can do good works, it's just not naturally inclined to.
"force" a government to be "good"? Once an elected official is in the '$y$tem' then he/she become part & parcel of the system. In the United States the Federal Government System has grown ever increasingly powerful since it's inception in 1789 accelerating after the dismantling of States Rights in 1865. At no time has this nation exhibited a period of 'good governance' as your brave survival from the Katrina disaster states but, how do you "incline" a behemoth?
Look at any snapshot in our history and you'll not find evidence of "good government" but, you will find moneyed interests that rule the masses under the guise that government will do something for us all the while enriching a few and tossing the rest crumbs.
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And then the libertarian alarm went off.
Mother Bush assures us that ...they were underprivileged anyway; and that, what with the medics and all, ...this is working out pretty well for them.
Asking The Family Bush to address misery & suffering is like asking rattlesnakes to address bed bugs. Watch out for your toes!
You can say Obama "had" to do it but I don't think he had to do anything. Bush's record on helping Americans (except for his croney friends and the upper 1%) is god awful. He should have to suffer with that legacy and be given an extra boot in the eye by not being given a chance to transform it. For the thousands of people in New Orleans, the people who died on his watch in the 9-11 attacks and the bogus war he started in Iraq with all the soldiers who died for it, no, I don't think he deserved to be asked to 'help'. The only question Obama should be asking G.W. is, 'Do you understand these rights I've just read to you?' just before they slam the cage door on his ass.
that Obama doesn't understand why we elected him.
And the only utterance of the name george w bush that I ever want to hear is "g w bush -- guilty."
the Heritage Foundation crap..GW Bush started this with his dad and slick willie...Obama does not need any prompting from a group that supports liars like Cantor, Boneher, L&D Cheney, Limpbow, paliny, and Beckie...To do the right thing
Dumb fools trying to take credit again for what they did not do...
High profile fundraising is what is needed --they can do this....!
another bullshit photo-op by corporatist tools who are ignorant of the terrible exploitation/indifference done to the citizens of a small island. The true humanitarians are the doctors and nurses on the ground in Haiti.
"Secular humanism -- a fearless, realistic world view replete with doubt and scepticism that attempts to attain an unachievable state of equilibrium between and among the human qualities of reason, intuition, imagination, memory, ethics and common sense.
Do these guys need to worry about protecting their family against aggressive marauders desperately searching for food?
http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photo...
Obama should have left Bush out of it. No one would noticed if he was missing and hadn't been mentioned. Bush should be left out of anything presidential for the rest of his life ...
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/ap/20100116/capt.5d2c91...
With luck the guns will explode in their ugly faces.
Limbag & his cohorts represent the Old White Men who have ruled European/Western civilization for over two thousand years.
The power structure is only beginning to change, hopefully for the better. Meanwhile the Old White Men are fighting back furiously using Fox, most of the TV networks, and most newspapers (too bad newspapers are failing).
We really want to keep our eyes on Net Neutrality.
Net Neutrality=Freedom on The Press.
Yep...Take it from Michael Corleone
"I can't keep doing this on my own with these...people."
is bush's ability to raise cash really that critical here? I mean, if the scenes of the poor Haitians on TV are not enough to make people open their hearts and wallets, why in Hell would seeing bush make people give money???
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Its all about the politics. Smart politics.
"I can't keep doing this on my own with these...people."
defending Clinton during this op. Bush and Clinton Okay . .
Obama BAD . .
I think there is more to Obama's decision than a simple need to appear bipartisan. The fact about conservatives is that no matter how righteous the cause is that requires their donations they will not give it to a Democrat - let alone Bill Clinton. Dubya's imprimatur is necessary to gain access to the wealthy donor base of conservative and corporate institutions. This way they can give and curry favor with Dubya while keeping Clinton, Obama or anything Democratic/Progressive/Liberal at a safe distance.
Of course, the Heritage Foundation is only interested in keeping some kind of conservative finger in this (or any) pie because they do not want America to realize that conservatives and Republicans are unnecessary to any type of helpful function of government. In fact, I cannot think of a single goddam thing they are good for anywhere.
[edit] Forgot to mention that the important nugget in all of this is that the actual assistance will be provided by The Clinton Foundation. A conservative foundation would simply advise them to help themselves by pulling themselves up by their own bootstraps.
I was talking to the head of the local teabagger movement here (a doctor) and he said he was not sending anything because the Haitians had not done anything for themselves in the last 30 years.
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If anyone wants to email Dr. Gonsalves and ask him more about it tell him Tom Kolt sent you because that's what he told me yesterday.
"Someday somebody related to some of these sufferers, these victims, these collaterally damaged souls, may try to kill you. And I have to tell you, I think you’ll have it coming." - Christopher Cooper
-that events like Haiti's earthquake OUGHT to bring people of all persuasions, races, and so on, together in compassion. That used to be the case, till Limbag and Fox grew up in our democratic garden like the death cap (A. phalloides) and destroying angels (A. virosa, and A. bisporiga); the fool's mushrooms they are.
if you are trying to russle up support, WHY would you drag out a FAILURE who dismissed New Orleans for being too black to help? If you want support, just look to Bill Gates or Google or SANDRA BULLOCK (Who just yesterday donated a million dollars herself) .... WE DON'T NEED BUSH!!!
But keep in mind America's constellation of psychos occupying the real estate up there on Mount Olympus includes just about everybody with a few hundred million or a billion bucks behind their hallucinations. From Oprah to Ben Bernanke.
Are you really going to sit there and insult people who are giving a tremendous amount to help at a time of one of the greatest disasters in history?
Tell you what, if you are so jaded about the goodness of people or the functioning of government then why don't you just go away? Stop trying to engage in a process for which you have so clearly given up hope and let the rest of us get some work done. Just find a nice quiet place and try to find some happiness in your life. Seriously.
use ignore....pretty much almost everyone else does now. It's not even trolling because sometimes I can agree with him, or the attempts to dominate EVERY thread, it's just the endless negativity. It's exhausting. I recommend the ignore button, at least for a while.
...I just do not get people like that. What compels them to participate in something that gives them such obvious dread?
...I just do not get people like that. What compels them to participate in something that gives them such obvious dread?
Evil spirits?
It could have been Sarah Palin...
...the lives he took it's about time he started saving some.
is intended to be a factual statement
If it were not for the doctrine of American exceptionalism the entire Bush Crime family would be given a fair trial and sent to prison where they belong. Having George W. Bush raise money for Haiti, is like asking Charles Manson to raise money for crime victims.
This is about helping people who are dying, in extreme pain and desperately need any kind of help. Like a commenter suggested the other day "Put Bush's ass to work!"
We shouldn't misuse any natural human resources at the expense of the Haitians.
Democrats never get this. It doesn't matter what they say or do in the name of "bipartisanship." The other side will STILL call them traitors and communists and thieves and murderers. And all the while those same Republicans will take as much as they can in the "negotiations," but will not have to give any of it back when they end up not supporting the final measure.
Democrats bent over backwards to obtain Republican support for the stimulus bill. The Republicans voted "no" almost to a man, yet they still got what they wanted in terms of reductions in the size and scope of the project, plus individual set asides for their own districts. Then they went home to complain about Democratic "overspending" while at the same time taking credit for spending in their own districts and states.
Health care reform has gone the same way. Democrats did everything possible to accommodate Grassley, Snowe, Collins and one or two others who SAID they were negotiating in good faith. Then the GOP voted against the final bill, but they got to keep in it all the concessions that had been made to them in the hopes of attracting their support.
Since Democrats are going to be opposed in the end and called names anyway, they'd be better off not dealing with the Republicans in the first place, but they never learn.
Does anyone doubt that Haiti relief will be just like that? Bush will put on a show of making this a "nonpartisan" effort while the usual GOP suspects call Obama traitor and a racist and complain that he's spending too much and that he's allowing this event to distract him from the "real" problem of keeping us "safe" from terrorism. Limbaugh and Beck have already started on this theme. It's only a matter of time before the rest of the Republicans pick it up.
And those observations about the process don't even begin to scratch the surface of the real problem I have with George W. Bush in this regard. Based on his ignoring of and then subsequently poor performance after Hurricane Katrina, he's the LAST person whose name should be considered in the same breath as "disaster relief."
Based on how Bush took care of Mississippi (Republican governor) while screwing Louisiana (then Democratic one), if Bush stays involved in this effort, the people of Haiti will find that they get little to no help because the head of their government isn't a fat, doughy, white, lying Republican like Haley Barbour.
Bush ruins everything he touches. We'd be better off without him getting involved.
... not sure how "right" it is, or even it it's a good idea, but i do understand why it was, say, necessary...
just hope the haitian people understand...
so many righties want to disown the guy, how much can he pull in?
just heard a clip of boosh speak earlier... more sloshy sounding that usual...
Since the fund isn't cleared by the IRS yet, you have to start your donation at Clinton's or Bush's foundation.
"100% of donations to the Clinton Foundation will be forwarded and 99% of donation to Bush's will be forwarded."
"Gotta replenish the old coffers" at the expense of devastated poor - "this is (chuckle) working out very well for them".
Why would Clinton allow his name to be associated with an ignorant fuck like Bush?
about 5% of the total take by the time it get's "laundered" through our system.
is Chimpy McF*cknuts in the CENTER of the photo? I don't believe he is the CURRENT legally elected President. From where is this photo? I'm curious who took it. It's HIGHLY improper.
and in front to make him look taller, like real men are.
...between the period when Obama was elected and when he was sworn in. We only have one President at a time and for that time it was him.
is as bad as when FOX does sh*t like this.
The photo was used because it shows Obama, Bush and Clinton together in the same photo - the three people about which the entire article focused.
I have no idea what evil intent you are reading into this. I simply do not see it.
the time and date of said photo which presents Bush as in charge, is what I have a problem with. It's a year old photo with no explanation. I nevber said anything about evil intent, that's your doing. I'm saying that Fox does this same kind of irresponsible sh*t. And it's sad that you can't see it.
...but from the swearing and the use of caps it seemed like you were pretty upset about it and I did not understand why. We'll have to agree to disagree on this.
about it, when Fox does the same thing if it's so okay.
Maybe my problem is tbhat I grew up and was educated in real journalism. And to find the same kind of sloppiness here that we find all the time on Fox is rather irritating in the slightest.
But if it's okay, then just forget everything I said.
except on the internet.
This photo has been cropped from an original photo showing all 5 living presidents while it was still Chimpy's term; H.W. is to Obama's right, and Carter is to Clinton's left. It was taken shortly after Obama's election, and Chimpy called all 4 together to gladhand and hobnob and give Obama high fives.
Original photo:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/im...
should be noted. We'd all be screaming to high hell if Fox posted some pic like this over a YEAR into O's Presidency. Why is it okay here?
Because faux is widely broadcasted, purported to be news, and this is more about opinion?
Diabolus est Deus Inversus
try again.
Your talking in tu quoques.
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Because when fox used video of older events and let it seem like it was part of another event C&L screamed about it. While not with the same intent, C&L presents a picture here that make it look as Bush id more prominent than the current President. While not done with "evil intent", it's sloppy and wrong. And it IS the same thing.
It's obviously being done to provoke a visceral response
Your denunciation of it, and the proposed faux idea, is proof of it's effectiveness.
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at 10:06.
Okay
Proper pic: here
To undermine EVERYTHING i just said, from same article: here
I instantly thought "What the Hell-o is Bush doing in the center? Then I remembered his visit to Clinton's Presidential Library, and how he tried to shove Clinton aside when they went thru a door. My (instant) guess was Dubya pitched a fit like the 6 year old sociopath he is, and the others let him "have the biggest piece of cake", that is, stand in the middle.
is why I raised a stink. I wanted to know whether it was a current photo, and it turned out it was not. And that bothers me when anyone does it, right or left, broadcast, cable and internet site. It's manipulation of the facts, regardless of the intent or reason.
He's still smirking!
-so He's cropped from the photo!
...steps in front of a camera to say that "this is hard work", we'll then know that he's in his living room, hoping not to choke on that pretzel.
I saw the "photo op", gag me. I'm an elephant. I FUCKIN' REMEMBER THAT ASSHOLE....NO FRIGGIN' WAY will I send anything to him.Throw his ass in jail. Whew...funny, I feel better now.
That photo was taken when the jerk was still "president". Obama had already won the election.
I think at this point it is better to take advantage of thst guy to get money from
all his cronies in this difficult time.
I was that weird cousin.
Hmmm...sounds like a title to a 70's soft core porn film.
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some kind of record set in this post for the most left-handed compliments of an ex-president.
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Because we're having a seance.
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How much money they will make off of this?
It is absolutely correct that this photo of Obama, Bush and Clinton was taken while Bush was still President.
This article was written - and the photo uploaded - on Friday, the day before today's White House meeting. For video of that White House meeting, visit the WH web site here:
"Presidents Obama, Bush, & Clinton: Help for Haiti."
But I see Bush in the center of your photo, not Obama as it is on the site you link to. And the AP article. See post at 10:57.
I also have one of Clinton in the middle, but all those photo are current, not over a year old.
Despite when it was uploaded, since it was not a current picture, it should have been noted as such. Otherwise it seems to portray a current event, which it does not. I do not imply any intent here, as does Fox, but it is the same kind of misuse of photos.
Let him explain it to the gangs with machetes.
During a tragedy of this magnitude, I don't care who raises money and resources AS LONG AS the money and resources ALL go to the Haitian humanitarian effort. This should include not only the current state of Haiti, but the future state of Haiti as well.
Given what has happened the last 40 years, it will be a huge question as to whether those who are partly responsible for Haiti's poor government infrastructure and economy will change their stripes...
As Brian Concannon, the director of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, points out: "Those people got there because they or their parents were intentionally pushed out of the countryside by aid and trade policies specifically designed to create a large captive and therefore exploitable labour force in the cities; by definition they are people who would not be able to afford to build earthquake resistant houses." Meanwhile the city's basic infrastructure – running water, electricity, roads, etc – remains woefully inadequate, often non-existent. The government's ability to mobilise any sort of disaster relief is next to nil.
The international community has been effectively ruling Haiti since the 2004 coup. The same countries scrambling to send emergency help to Haiti now, however, have during the last five years consistently voted against any extension of the UN mission's mandate beyond its immediate military purpose. Proposals to divert some of this "investment" towards poverty reduction or agrarian development have been blocked, in keeping with the long-term patterns that continue to shape the distribution of international "aid".
Maybe I'm forging an impossible link, but I think it's a mistake for President Obama to tap busch for this effort.
Working with President Obama and Clinton will verify for conseratives their view that boosh was really a "progressive," so the collapse of our country wasn't due to conservative mismanagement and criminality.
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I think this is good for the Narrative of America: a common interest of all three men.
The living-presidents club is tiny, and they're all friends, or certainly a highly unique few that have a rare common link. It looks good for the country and the image of the country for the three of them to be working together.
Less cynically, if they can raise money from both sides-- go for it.
far left loon >.<
it's only natural that the Heritage Foundation would lobby for Bush's involvement in the furthering plundering, er... I mean helping of Haiti.
"The three men will meet at the White House Saturday".
WILL meet. They haven't met yet. So the picture was taken at a different time.
The story doesn't say (unlike the FOX comparisons) that this is a picture of them meeting today.
What's the big firckin' deal?
"If only more talking heads in this country could move past their own limited binary thought of politics to recognize that there is no Left/Right, no Democratic/Rebublican paradigm to this story."
Nicole Belle wrote that in the story about the 11 year old girl's death. Reading the anti-Bush comments here is a bit jarring. He's not going down there because of his Katrina expertise, or to take away civil liberties, set up a wire-tap program, or lie them into a war. He's a former President, and whether we like it or not, his prestige can help that tragic country.
What thinking process did Obama go through in selecting the Miserable Failure, illegal president puppet bush? Does Obama and Clinton not remember the Fascist republicans stole two elections--first in Florida, and then in Ohio. Does he not remember the cheney/bush Fascist Criminal Enterprise stomped all over the USA Constitution and the Bill of Rights? Does he not remember the illegal invasion of Iraq that has caused the deaths of almost 4700 of our young, brave soldiers, over 30,000 totally disabled, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi's. Has Clinton forget the relentless attack on his Presidency and First Lady Hillary? Obama wants to hold hands and be bipartisan with the Fascist republicans, while the Fascist Brownshirt operatives do everything in their power to sabotage his Presidency. Has Clinton and Obama forgotten the miserable failure of the cheney/puppet bush response to New Orleans after Katrina? Have they forgotten that cheney, bush, yoo, rumsfield and many other Fascists within their criminal mis-administration are international war criminals. Have they forgotten that the cheney/bush Fascist Criminal Enterprise in cahoots with the Wall St. Capitalists have done more damage to the USA than any foreign enemy has been able to do? Obama and Clinton's embrace of "Thing" bush gives him some legitimacy, when he deserves none. How many Fascist republican Senators voted for health care reform? Not one single one! Those who do not remember negative history or want to forget it, may let it be repeated. The Democrats should adopt the slogan: "Hades no, we will never forget!"
It's about Haiti.
n/t
Don't try to confuse the issue with half-truths and gorilla dust.
Bury some children in rubble in Baghdad. Pull some out of the rubble in Port au Prince. It all works out in the end, give or take a few lives.
This has nothing to do with politics, or bipartisanship.
This has to do with tradition. Every former President does this. He becomes a good will ambassador. It is a traditional role. They've all done it. Hell, look what Jimmy Carter has done. Bill Clinton, Bush Sr.
This is what a former president is supposed to do. Take up causes and lend his name and considerable, even if he is disgraced, influence to them.
The Tsunami Relief effort is a great one. Clinton and Bush Sr. worked together on that one.
Why? Because neither will ever hold another elected office, and they no longer care about politics.
Court-appointed presidents? Maybe not.
Why didn't George call Obama right away and offer help? Why did the Heritage Foundation have to call the White House and tell them to call George? Maybe George's phone doesn't call long distance.
He's prolly been on a massive bender since January '08.
(Too drunk to dial?)
far left loon >.<
But what if I'm a real American who knows better how to spend my money wisely?
Are you Americans too Blind too see? "Never let a Crisis go to Waste" Do you know who said that? He's powerfully influential in your sorry current government right now. These guys are going there to push economic conditions on the Haitians that are favorable to Big Business in America at the expense of the Haitian people. These shills are CROOKS, plain and simple. If Justice was to be served, they would be met at the Airport with a firing squad.
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