[Rhodes22-list] CAUTION-POLITICS, Wally, About Africa

[brad haslett]

USA for Africa
http://www.guardian.co.uk/famine/story/0,12128,965311,00.html
>
> Bob Geldof, the musician behind the well-intentioned
if somewhat 
treacly
Live Aid efforts of the '80s ("Do They Know It's
Christmas?"), has high
praise for President Bush, London's Guardian reports:
>
> *** QUOTE ***
>
> "You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this,
but the Bush
administration is the most radical--in a positive
sense--in its 
approach to
Africa since Kennedy," Geldof told the Guardian.
>
> The neo-conservatives and religious rightwingers who
surrounded 
President
George Bush were proving unexpectedly receptive to
appeals for help, he
said. "You can get the weirdest politicians on your
side."
>
> Former president Bill Clinton had not helped Africa
much, despite his
high-profile visits and apparent empathy with the
downtrodden, the 
organiser
of Live Aid, claimed. "Clinton was a good guy, but he
did f--- all."
>
> *** END QUOTE ***
>
> Geldof also has disdain for the European Union,
whose efforts in 
Africa he
calls "pathetic and appalling."


 


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