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Robertson, Limbaugh Beef With Obama U.S. Aid To Haiti Ri-damn-Diculous
Televangelist, and teevee preacher who occasionally makes crazy statements who many thought was dead- read that as a play on Mark Twain’s famous quote, “Rumors of my death are greatly exaggerated”– Pat Robertson, and the rich fat guy on the radio Rush Limbaugh have made remarks that have caused members of the political right and left to wince.
Robertson recently announced on the religious television variety/talk show The 700 Club that the disaster in Haiti is the punishing curse the result of a pact made with the devil some years ago by the Haitian people (??) during the war for liberation from the French under the Emperor Napoleon. This is Robertson’s lame atteempt at revisionist history.
Limbaugh has suggested the recent natural earthquake disaster which has decimated the island nation has helped to enhance the image of U.S. President Barack Obama. Among Limbaugh’s ridiculous remarks, the big man on the radio says the earthquake has played into Obama’s hands, allowing the president appear “compassionate” and “humanitarian” while simultaneously bolstering his standing in both the “light-skinned and dark-skinned black community in this country.” The last part is a riff on the factual statement recently made by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, (D. Nevada). [In describing then candidate Senator Obama’s potential marketability to the American voters he said obama is a light skinned with no Negro dialect unless he wants to have one.]
We believe neither Robertson nor Limbaugh should complain because the United States has sent its military to Haiti to help keep the peace. All the other nations of the world have donated humanitarian aid such as medicines, doctors, food provisions, money; from China to Germany, from Spain to Ireland; from France to Mexico all have given aid that does not include a military presence.
The United States has continued its tradition of sending its military to intimidate and control Haitians, a policy established when the U.S. made that great real estate transaction with the French government more than 200 yuears ago known as the Louisiana Purchase which today is now 13 American states.
We believe the nutty preacher and the really big guy on the radio, clearly a very odd couple, have no reason to complain. Our U.S. government are doing what it has always done in Haiti.
If you wish to help the survivors of the Caribbean disaster make donations
to Yele Haiti the fund organized by Haiti’s musical gift to the world Wyclef Jean.
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