Santa (Bush) goes to Africa.

[SoCalDem]

Benin----------------$307Million
Zimbabwe--------$700Million
Ghana---------------$???
Tanzania-----------$698Million
Liberia---------------$30Billion
Rwanda-------------$80Million new US Embassy & $167Million in '07...no new numbers listed for this visit


and yet , here in the US, poor people can expect to see their necessary programs being cut.

I feel great empathy for the suffering of African people, but I also resent....tremendously........, the photo-op, Sugar-Daddy , faux-largess of this bumbler-in-chief, as he hands out our tax dollars to African countries, in a last ditch effort to purchase some sort of legacy for himself, and perhaps a little goodwill for his wretched party.

[whistle]

1. That will certainly win Bush a lot of ass kissing and butt sucking

...from those African leaders who reap the wind-fall. As far as the people living in those nations, what trickles down will be like urine running down their leg on a crowded bus.

[pitohui]

2. oh don't worry

i seriously doubt that most of these pledges will be honored, they usually aren't

nothing for kenya and uganda?

[SoCalDem]

3. he's not going there ..

Kenya's too dangerous now..Cowardly Bush would never go to a scary place..

[pitohui]

7. well i actually heard that white people are not being harmed in this current mess

it's various tribes taking machetes to each other, hardly something that's going to impact a presidential motorcade -- may or may not be true, and i know the british gov't is telling tourists to get out and stay out, but i think we'd know if any visitors had been harmed

but i'm not surprised he's hiding in his hidey hole, what african nation is it that he visited in 2003 and made them cut down 100 year old trees because he was so scared of snipers?
not exactly a prince among men, if you ask me

[SoCalDem]

8. I remember that.. It was his 2003 trip.. Nigeria?? I cannot recall

It's all so embarrassing, having someone like him representing us..:puke:

[spanone]

4. he's trying to buy his legacy...there's not enough money on earth

[CJCRANE]

5. Is Africa to Bush

what China was to Nixon?

[pitohui]

6. hardly -- africa was not closed to us nor was it pointing nuclear weapons our way

there is no parallel to nixon opening up china, africa has always been open, too many of us just haven't cared