Posted on 12/13/2010 11:34:45 AM PST by pissant
Non Sequitour of the year
Just lost my vote... not like she was getting it anyways...
Ahh who cares about some stupid farmers, all that matters is that we "feeeel" good about ourselves. /s
Yeah, Sarah Palin needs photo ops. The press has lost interest in her activity.
sarc
At $100K per speaking engagement she could have gone to two paid appearances in 48 hours and made headlines to boot, instead of going to Haiti with Franklin Graham.
Haiti is a perfect example of what happens when helpless, uneducated, superstitious people who don’t value personal freedom or responsibility rely on dictators and the promises of snake-oil salesmen to run their Government.
That’s the lesson, Sarah - and we have many such people in the USA too.
Sorry but we have given the place more time, money and effort then its own people have in over 500 years.
We owe them nothing more - it is time for them to get on with it themselves.
Because Franklin Graham asked her to lend her name and her Christianity to a project that he supports.
LLS
I'm sure press coverage was of great importance to Palin.
Then why did she go?
Because she has a heart and she knows she can influence other hearts to dontate to the cause.
I would have expected her to cheer the private sector work being done and the private church and NGO efforts, not ask for tax dollars. Maybe I’m not understanding something.
No amount of airlift will “solve” Haiti’s crisis but airlift of medical supplies might save thousands of people from dying of cholera. Hydration solution, IV bags and needles is pretty cheap treatment...if you are from a western nation
It’s just not in the nature of Christians like Graham and Palin to give up on and turn backs on massive suffering, death and misery, especially so close to our doors
I hear ya. Her photo-op in Haiti was barely covered by the press. /s
Not much, actually. The multi-billions in aid already sent to Haiti have been wasted or stolen; and have certainly not been used for the purposes intended. Just sending supplies is not enough -- they have to be distributed. And the government of Haiti is neither willing nor able to do that.
Sarah Palin no doubt means well, and humanitarian aid is not a bad thing for people who are starving. But it's very clear that just dropping more supplies isn't going to help those who most need them.
The roots of Haiti's current and long-standing problems deserve to be stated clearly and firmly. If there was ever a time for somebody to make a political comment, this was it.
What Haiti really needs, is for its entire government to be overthrown and exiled or imprisoned; and the country placed under martial law until such time as it can be re-colonized by a civilized nation.
The Haitians have proven time and again that they are incapable of self rule, with the only effective government they have ever had being the US Marine Corps, far too briefly.
In short, the best thing that could be done for them is to set up a highly disciplined boarding school that would only enroll thousands of very young children, and raise them to become a future government. Basically to create an elite, ruling class from scratch, without any exposure to their countrymen until they graduated.
But unlike elsewhere in the Caribbean, central and South America, these children would be programmed to *not* remain an elite, but to evolve the rest of their nation’s citizens up to their standards. Their success would be in how well they could do this. Most teachers would have to be foreigners.
So the first task of this new government would be to just maintain order, as they created an enviable public school system throughout Haiti, where all children would be under strict discipline. No exceptions. Unswerving egalitarianism, patriotism, and teamwork.
The hardest part would be to keep adults away from these children until they could be raised right.
The plan to do all of this would likely last 30 years. But hopefully, once it was done, Haiti would be forever free of its curse.
So, we wondered how we can afford to send help to Haiti, an entire country of human pets.
But thanks for the free advice anyway.
Sure, that’s why she went with a full press entourage of...Greta Van Sustern (who is now on her 3rd trip with Samaritan’s Purse mission)
Palin limited her press remarks in Haiti to one brief session with no questions
She is accompanied by a video crew making a film of the cholera ttreatment field operations for Samaritan’s Purse- you can see some of it on the Samaritan’s Purse web site- I suggest you go make a donation since you are so much more altruistic than the Palins
and based on the press feeding frenzy (much of it bashing Sarah) look how many people noticed Haiti again
no sarc
Would be interesting to know how much donations to Samaritan’s Purse spike as a result of the Palin family’s visit
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