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Topic: Carter Gets Into Shouting Match in Sudan
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| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 10/3/2007 3:38:44 PM | show profile | email poster Reading about this made me wonder why all politicians don't have the courage to fight for what's right. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Darfur.html?_r=1&oref=slogin |
| Newzaroo | Posted – 10/3/2007 4:50:41 PM | show profile Thanks Jimma' Carter spreads his peanut butter diplomacy and leaves Sudan starving? Shucks. |
| catlondon | Posted – 10/3/2007 4:54:09 PM | show profile Well, Carter isn't out to win any elections and keep the PAC money flowing, so he can go to the mat for the Sudan. Doesn't make him less courageous in his actions, just less restricted. |
| chucho | Posted – 10/3/2007 5:38:46 PM | show profile Peanut jokes about Carter are very creative! |
| keltoi2 | Posted – 10/3/2007 5:38:52 PM | show profile Though I thought he wasn't a great president, Carter's a far more honest and Christian (in the literal, not organizational, sense of the word) man than any of the leaders of the so-called Christian right or the Republicans who suck up to them. |
| Bleak Spouse | Posted – 10/3/2007 9:40:09 PM | show profile why the hell would it be bad for a politician running for election to go to the matt for sudan? since when does it hurt your popularity to do the right thing? |
| chucho | Posted – 10/6/2007 9:29:18 AM | show profile Actually, Newsaroo is wrong: the US uses the UN's World Food Programme to dump its grain (in a disguised subsidy to US farmers) and a lot of that humanitarian grain ends up in Sudan, feeding Sudenses refugees (2 million, overlapping into neighboring Chad). Carter more likely than not recognizes and supports US contributions to the UN World Food Programme, even though, as I pointed out it's used by the US to prop up its farmers (it buys the grain, then gives it to the UN, see?) Anyway, charity is charity, even if it "conveniently" also helps politicians in Red States (the agrarian ones) buy support of its rural folk through this subsidization. That's neither here nor there for the Sudanese refugee (they get food from the US, that;s what really matters), but it is typical of US humanitarian gestures being "conveniently" synergistic with other political agendas (ie, abortion politics in aid to Africa, etc.) Love, Chuch |
| crimedog | Posted – 10/6/2007 10:38:37 AM | show profile Carter is the most decent president in recent memory. At least this guy tries to do the right thing. What will Bush do after his presidency - ride a bike and shop at the joke store. |
