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.
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As to post #22, I’d like to hear what Jeremiah has to say about this? He claims to be a Christian, and I do believe his faith is true, but his knowledge, worldview and morals are seriously flawed.
I have mixed feelings about abortions, which seem to be his only real issue, but how can you support that and call yourself pro-life, and be for war. How can you call yourself christian and be pro-war. Any war? Didn’t jesus say something about turning the other cheek? And all this anti-liberal fervour… What about the forgivness, and not judging people.
I don’t understand religious people.
Not to mention that anyone, who cannot admit to the possibility, however probable or improbable, of their being completely wrong about everything, doesn’t deserve a vote. Partisans have made their minds up, both left and right. The right isn’t totally evil, and the left doesn’t hate freedom.
Stop the hyperbole and actually think people.
I saw this quote from Fox on Bush yesterday:
GOLER: The president says it’s better that African nations deal with African problems. White soldiers in Darfur, he believes, would be targets for all sides.
BUSH: A clear lesson I learned in the museum was that outside forces tend to divide people up inside their country and are unbelievably counterproductive.
Has he really learned that lesson? Doubtful…
GWB: “In other words, people came from other countries — I guess you’d call them colonialists — and they pitted one group of people against another.”
Reads a little different when you get the whole message, doesn’t it?
Canadian Rationalist,
Friend, if you could only understand the suffering that Saddam Hussein caused to those people of Iraq; many generations of zero freedom … only oppression. If you could just go an see the piles of twisted, mangled, and burned bodies that had been tortured beyond recognition. Can you just imagine being blind folded and then being struck repeatedly in the head and you could not see where the blows were coming from…? Can you just imagine, then, being burned alive in your, own, living, flesh and blood under that same blindfold? You and your loved ones? No, you most certainly can’t, because you live in a land that is blessed beyond all measure, because of one simple, and yet, so-greatly-known fact that there were men of upstanding values, men of God, blessed with the honesty, decency, and integrity, in honoring Him first in their everyday lives; willing to protect the only last great vestige of hope in the world, this rock of Liberty, this stronghold of a free and prosperous society, we call the Great Republic, and Oh how I Thank God for every last breath of my being to be able to proclaim it. No one can ever erase that fact. Only the people as as one body, seperated from God’s love through their own ignorance could do so.
So, listen up, friend … God says it’s not mine for the keeping, unless I return Him one small favor, and you know what that is? That I only share it with others, that I should not withhold it in selfish pride, but that I would spread this beacon of Liberty to all the world.
Ans so, would it have been right to look at my brothers and sisters of Iraq in suffering, allowing this one man of mass and evil cruelty, bent on world domination through his own sick and twisted dreams to plunder God’s people? Fortunately, no friend, it was His sincere desire that we show the world that we truly care, and that we will not back down in cowardly selfishness and allow this man to laugh in the face of the entire world of good Christian people and mercilessly slaughter His people.
As for this country in their disobedience to God by creating one if not the worst Holocaust in human history, only second to God’s Great wrath at the flood? Well, he’s allowing it to happen, but unless we heed the calling that has been trumpeted throughout the last 40 years, since its beginning, in an earnest plea to stop the slaughter of His innocent unborn children of the womb, it will be brought down as God ordered all the others to be also. It’s just a matter of time.
America seems to be on a steady drift away from God, I can only hope they will turn back to Him, and seek to do His perfect Will. If not? Then she will be laid to waste.
God help America!
–Jeremiah–
Amen, Jeremiah, Amen.
Jeremiah, I salute your sincerity but your ignorance of facts is appalling. There is less freedom of most kinds now in Iraq than there was under Saddam. It’s all an illusion and you’ve bought it with your eyes wide open.
Saddam’s own deputy prime minister, Tariq Aziz, was a Christian. The Protestant denomination I was raised in had many churches in Iraq and freedom to worship and operate their ministry, as did Catholic and Orthodox churches. Women were not oppressed or forced to wear the veil. People could walk the streets and travel safely. There was electricity, hospitals and humanitarian services operated reasonably well.
People were generally safe in Saddam’s Iraq, except for his political enemies. It wasn’t perfect, but it was a hell of a lot more secure and free than it is now. Now NO Christian ministry can operate there. Zip. Nada. We, the United States of America, killed freedom of religion DEAD in Iraq. It is now a MUSLIM state, permanently and forever. Got that?
Saddam’s Iraq was an integrated nation along sectarian and ethnic lines. We, the United States of America, enabled ETHNIC CLEANSING on a mass scale in Iraq, and now it is segregated, also probably permanently and forever. Got that?
So we killed a bad guy. Now do we go around the world killing bad guys, and call whatever chaos that comes out of the aftermath “better” just because the bad guy is dead???
Go back and study Romans 12 and 13 again, and apply yourself to understanding just where and in how many ways Mr. George W. Bush blew it.
15. Percy Beezer | February 20th, 2008 at 12:28 pm
1. Why did so many have to die to preserve our Constitutional rights?
Lying military recruiters duping poor uneducated inner-city kids with no hope into imperialist wars designed to enhance profits for corporations and dynastic families.
I wonder why liberals still want to live in America? Why don’t they have the self respect to leave this country? Are they that self loathing?
On the other hand this is exactly why we can not allow them to have any power whatsoever. I definitely believe that McCain will trounce either Clinton or Obama. I saw a poll today that over 90% of both Obama and Clinton supporters felt that if their candidate was not the nominee, that they would be very dissatisfied. That party is already fractured.
saw a poll today that over 90% of both Obama and Clinton supporters felt that if their candidate was not the nominee, that they would be very dissatisfied
Please link that poll. I’m not believing that one. From people I have talked to and read elsewhere that would be 90% would BE HAPPY with the nominee regardless of who it is.
I guess I heard the percentages wrong, but it still doesn’t bode well and will only get worse.
In one of CNN exit polls for Louisiana 66% of Clinton voters, said they would feel dissatisfied with Obama if he won the nomination. While “only” 50% of Obama supporters would be dissatisfied if Clinton won the nomination. Firstly, “dissatisfied” doesn’t mean “won’t vote for”.
http://kissavegan.livejournal.com/2008/02/09/
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