What? Yeah, I know...to almost all of our leftwing friends, "humanitarian" and "President Bush" can't exist within a country mile of each other. In leftwing views, President Bush's goals are to defend the Likud Party in Israel, increase oil company profits, and kill people for fun and profit. That is the view from the leftwing Alternate Universe - for a look at the real world, and a glimpse at the real President Bush, we take you to Debra Saunders over at Real Clear Politics:
Bono has criticized President Bush when he thought the president was not doing enough. But he also gives Dubya credit for the administration's large increases in foreign aid -- which many other leftists don't want to do. In fact, Bono told The Chronicle, "I think I'm a pretty good judge of character," and as for President Bush, with whom he recently had lunch at the White House, "I really believe he has this (helping and healing Africa's poor) in his mind and heart."
Bono noted that because of a Bush push, 250,000 Africans are using the antiretroviral drugs now, when zero Africans were using them a year before. "It is an amazing thing he's pulled off. Three years ago, people would laugh openly, in your face, at the idea that we could work with the (Bush) administration on this stuff."
Overall, the Bush administration has trebled American aid for Africa. That's big. Bono is the guiding light for The One Campaign to Make Poverty History (www.one.org), with its goal of pressuring Congress to dedicate 1 percent of the federal budget to improve life in the poorest nations. He helps his cause with his practical approach. While the -- all bow -- international community has blasted the Bush approach to dispensing aid, One's website notes, "Approaches like America's Millennium Challenge, which directs assistance to honest governments, are the most effective."
It is no great surprise, really: President Bush is a believing Christian. I know that lefties think that "believing Christian" means someone who worries about what sort of sex acts people are doing, but in reality to be a believing Christian is to be a person who simply must help the poor. We're really not allow to debate it - God didn't say "help the poor, but only if you really feel like it". We have to help the poor and suffering - but this doesn't mean we're going to sign off on just any old spending program the left casts as "help the poor"...but when a genuine program that offers help and hope comes along? We're all over it.
The person who should have got the Peace Prize this past year was Bono - a lefty rock star, but a man with a genuine heart of gold. Hopefully, in the fullness of time, President Bush will be accorded the respect he's due for his efforts at helping the poor and helpless, too.
Posted by Mark Noonan at November 13, 2005 01:43 PM
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Bono is a genuinely good man, and it speaks to his character that the vicious personal attacks against Bush that have been the indulgence of many celebrity lefties have not come from him. He is a quality person who actually does give a damn. President Bush has done more than any other American president to give meaningful aid to Africa. Don't hold your breath and expect any leftwing idealogue to give him credit for it.
Posted by: CeCe at November 13, 2005 02:17 PM
I think President Bush realizes that he will never get any credit from either the left or the MSM. President Bush has done more to help others, especially the poor, than any president in US history. President Bush has always done what he believes is right.
Posted by: james allegro at November 13, 2005 06:25 PM
I deffinetly won't be holding my breath for anyone else on the left to mention the good Bush has done.
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Gozer at November 13, 2005 06:53 PM
Hey, at least there's a lefty out there whose music I can enjoy without gritting my teeth. I'm relieved; I like U2. And Bono is a good chap despite his political bent. The donks in D.C. would do well to emulate him, but I ain't countin' on it...
Posted by: keefer at November 13, 2005 08:56 PM
Posted by: Christian Wright at November 14, 2005 05:59 PM
When Bono isn't dropping f-bombs on live TV, I usually like him and his music.
Posted by: Scott at November 15, 2005 01:23 AM
Mr Mark Noonan, when you said "President Bush is a believing Christian" you are missing the point of the faith. As the letter of James (2:1-10,14-20) says, "Even the demons believe - and shudder." The problem is that President Bush is not a practicing Christian. Of course, current society is not Christian, so it could be that President Bush just doesn't know any better. His first State Of The Union address in which he said, "It's your money" shows that he doesn't understand Jesus' parable in Luke 12:15-21, teaching that all possessions are God's and God's alone. I appaud your statement that "We're really not allow to debate it - God didn't say 'help the poor, but only if you really feel like it'." but again, it doesn't go far enough because a person can't claim to 'own' anything. Society tells us we deserve our paychecks because we worked for them. How did we work? We use our muscles and our mind. But who gave us muscles and minds so we can work? God, therefore it is not our paycheck but God's paycheck. That also means that the able-bodied are not better than the handicapped, just luckier.
Posted by: Robert K Meyer Jr at December 25, 2005 05:04 AM
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Bono is a genuinely good man, and it speaks to his character that the vicious personal attacks against Bush that have been the indulgence of many celebrity lefties have not come from him. He is a quality person who actually does give a damn. President Bush has done more than any other American president to give meaningful aid to Africa. Don't hold your breath and expect any leftwing idealogue to give him credit for it.
I think President Bush realizes that he will never get any credit from either the left or the MSM. President Bush has done more to help others, especially the poor, than any president in US history. President Bush has always done what he believes is right.
I deffinetly won't be holding my breath for anyone else on the left to mention the good Bush has done.
Hey, at least there's a lefty out there whose music I can enjoy without gritting my teeth. I'm relieved; I like U2. And Bono is a good chap despite his political bent. The donks in D.C. would do well to emulate him, but I ain't countin' on it...
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When Bono isn't dropping f-bombs on live TV, I usually like him and his music.
Mr Mark Noonan, when you said "President Bush is a believing Christian" you are missing the point of the faith. As the letter of James (2:1-10,14-20) says, "Even the demons believe - and shudder." The problem is that President Bush is not a practicing Christian. Of course, current society is not Christian, so it could be that President Bush just doesn't know any better. His first State Of The Union address in which he said, "It's your money" shows that he doesn't understand Jesus' parable in Luke 12:15-21, teaching that all possessions are God's and God's alone. I appaud your statement that "We're really not allow to debate it - God didn't say 'help the poor, but only if you really feel like it'." but again, it doesn't go far enough because a person can't claim to 'own' anything. Society tells us we deserve our paychecks because we worked for them. How did we work? We use our muscles and our mind. But who gave us muscles and minds so we can work? God, therefore it is not our paycheck but God's paycheck. That also means that the able-bodied are not better than the handicapped, just luckier.