First White American President since Clinton has funny way of expressing hatred of brown people.
President Bush’s legacy is sure to be defined by his wielding of U.S. military power in Afghanistan and Iraq, but there is another, much softer and less-noticed effort by his administration in foreign affairs: a dramatic increase in U.S. aid to Africa.
The president has tripled direct humanitarian and development aid to the world’s most impoverished continent since taking office and recently vowed to double that increased amount by 2010—to nearly $9 billion.
The moves have surprised—and pleased—longtime supporters of assistance for Africa, who note that because Bush has received little support from African American voters, he has little obvious political incentive for his interest.
“I think the Bush administration deserves pretty high marks in terms of increasing aid to Africa,” said Steve Radelet, a senior fellow at the Center for Global Development.
Bush has increased direct development and humanitarian aid to Africa to more than $4 billion a year from $1.4 billion in 2001, according to the Paris-based Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. And four African nations—Sudan, Ethiopia, Egypt and Uganda—rank among the world’s top 10 recipients in aid from the United States.
Beyond increasing aid to Africa, Bush has met with nearly three dozen African heads of state during his six years in office. He visited Africa in his first term, and aides say he hopes to make a return visit next year.
Although some activists criticize Bush for not doing more to end the ongoing genocide in the Darfur region of Sudan, others credit him for playing a role in ending deadly conflicts in Liberia, the Congo and other parts of Sudan. Meanwhile, Bush has overseen a steady rise in U.S. trade with Africa, which has doubled since 2001.
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Tangentially Related: How are we going to establish democracy in Iraq when we can’t even find Obama?
If I admitted to only knowing who half of those in the pictures are, would that be akin to an admission of hating brown people?
Those aren’t true blacks though, they are Uncle Toms! The only true black is a Liberal Black!
Plus, it’s monopoly money being sent to Africa! Don’t believe the lies!
Uncle Toms…The whole lot of them!!!!
I wonder how the left is going to spin this.
If I admitted to only knowing who half of those in the pictures are, would that be akin to an admission of hating brown people?
Lets see… I could only recognize Clarence Thomas, Michael Steele, Condoleeza Rice and Colin Powell in those pictures. I guess I hate brown people too.
Rush Limbaugh has never been forgiven for “calling Chelsea Clinton a dog.” In my opinion CNN should be treated exactly the same.
Timmah spinning the Bush largesse in Africa as some kind of a conservative economic imperialist plot in 5 … 4 … 3… 2… 1 …
Hating on the children of President bugs me. Amy Carter, Chelsea Clinton, or the Bush twins? Leave ‘em out of it.
Of course it is fair game to counter any moralizing or pontificating nonsense, but as a rule I’d like to see them treated as kids… they didn’t get to pick their parents.
That doesn’t mean we can’t talk about ‘em. Make jokes.
I do think I’d rather hang out and have a few beers with the Bush twins over Amy and Chelsea any day
O.K. this part got me:
CNN apologized for the error, which came after a series of incidents in recent months in which Illinois Democrat Senator Barack Obama was subtly or directly linked with militant Islamic personalities who have been hostile to the United States.
Just take out the “militant Islamic” and you have it spot on…. And no need for an apology then…
Barack, wasn’t he on Battlestar Galactica? Some sort of pilot? Why is he running for prez? Does he think he is.. like… Ronald Reagan or some junk?
Dan Collins, I love you but you’ve got this wrong.
Brown people and black people are two different groups that Bush hates, they are not interchangeable.