President Bush Did More for Africa Than Any Other President

Not my words:

KIGALI, Rwanda — Bob Geldof has parachuted into the White House travel pool here in Rwanda, and will join us on the flight from Air Force One to Ghana tonight.

He’s going to interview President Bush for Time magazine and several European outlets, such as Liberacion, about aid to Africa for HIV/AIDS, malaria, and business development.

Mr. Geldof is an Irish rock and roll singer and longtime social activist who has helped, along with U2 rocker Bono, raise awareness about need in Africa. His most well known achievement is organizing the Live Aid concert in 1985, which raised money for debt relief for poor African countries.

But Mr. Geldof has remained closely engaged with African affairs since then, and he spoke off the cuff to reporters today who were waiting for a press conference with Mr. Bush and Rwandan President Paul Kagame.

Mr. Geldof praised Mr. Bush for his work in delivering billions to fight disease and poverty in Africa, and blasted the U.S. press for ignoring the achievement.

Mr. Bush, said Mr. Geldof, “has done more than any other president so far.”

“This is the triumph of American policy really,” he said. “It was probably unexpected of the man. It was expected of the nation, but not of the man, but both rose to the occasion.”

“What’s in it for [Mr. Bush]? Absolutely nothing,” Mr. Geldof said.

This is where reality entirely evaporates the leftwing critique of President Bush - which is either that he’s an idiot, or that he’s diabolical. Idiots and monsters don’t do what President Bush has done in Africa over the course of his Administration - and, lefties, this same President Bush who has worked so hard for the betterment of Africa? He’s the same President Bush who ordered the liberation of Iraq - and he did it, boys and girls, based upon the same requirements of morality. Fundamentally, as even Barack Obama recently opined, we are our brother’s keeper - President Bush understands this and during his whole Administration, he’s been motivated by this impulse.

While the left simply believes a string of lies about President Bush, the reality is that he did what he felt was best for the people of America, and the people of the world. Mistakes were made. Things didn’t go exactly as planned or hoped - but the reason he did what he did is because President Bush understands that the only proper policy for a Christian nation (such as the United States) is to do the right thing, regardless of the cost or the difficulty. As I’ve said many times of late, we’re going to miss this man President Bush when he leaves office - McCain is a fine patriot; Obama and Hillary believe in failed policies, but I’m sure they believe they have it right…but no matter which of them is sworn in on January 20th, 2009, none of them will have quite the combination of fortitude and love of humanity displayed by President Bush…all we can hope is that President Bush’s successor can grow into his shoes.

Tags: Africa, AIDS initiative

36 comments February 20th, 2008

President Bush Has Made U.S. Hated Around the World

Except, perhaps, for those parts of the world not infected with post-Christian, mush-minded Euro-trash leftism:

US President George W. Bush has said he chose to stay longer in Tanzania during his five-nation African visit in appreciation of the country’s clear development plans and efficient use of American aid.

Speaking after signing a 698 million US dollars (about 800bn/-) five-year grant to Tanzania under the Millennium Challenge Corporation (MCC) at the State House in Dar es Salaam today, Mr Bush said the country was exemplary in executing health and development programmes supported by the US.

“We go where there are tangible results (of American aid). We don’t give aid to governments which steal from their people,” he said. Mr Bush admitted that the African visit had come late in his presidency, which ends later this year, but maintained that his administration had always given Africa priority.

President Jakaya Kikwete said earlier that malaria prevalence had declined dramatically in Zanzibar under a US support programme while the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) initiated by Mr Bush was prolonging the lives of hundreds of thousands of Tanzanians infected with HIV.

The MSM hates it - a smiling President Bush being greeted by happy foreigners who are grateful for what America under his leadership has accomplished. But the MSM is forced to report things like this:

In a reference to Bush’s domestic problems, Kikwete added: “Different people may have different views about you and your administration and your legacy.

“But we in Tanzania, if we are to speak for ourselves and for Africa, we know for sure that you, Mr. President, and your administration have been good friends of our country and have been good friends of Africa.”

Over President Bush’s Administration, we have built up good will and cooperative relationships with rising Africa and India…dying Europe (and their spiritual compatriots in the United States) hate President Bush.

That is fine and dandy - we’ll take the living, and leave the dead to bury their dead.

Tags: Africa, AIDS initiative, foreign aid

153 comments February 17th, 2008