Comments on: Disaster Response–Obama versus Bush

By: lark

lark — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:26:15 +0000

Do you think Sec of State Hillary Clinton cleaned well and fixed up the room in an acceptable manner for the Sec of the UN visit today? If the bed was not done exactly right and the soap is not in the right place Ban Ki-moon is going to call Obama and Bill Clinton and between them both are going to give Hillary a real bad spanking.

Obama just sent Ban Ki-moon a customer service evaluation card for him to return to Obama for an evaluation of how Hillary did with his room.

By: lark

lark — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 15:11:00 +0000

Enough about Haiti, lets return to read about Angelina Jolie and her next movie. All smiles is doing a great job in Haiti since she arrived the President of Haiti is much reasured and she made sure that the room for the UN official is done to perfection. Obama talked to Garcia Pervez and was able to get a committment from Pervez on the finest No. 9 Iron that he can get for him for his next golf tour.

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By: lark

lark — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:40:33 +0000

EllenD, we are at war with terrorism because it can kill a few of us. But we are not at war with missery and death if it is the other who is misserable and dying. This is not the America of our fathers. We have changed. And with Obama, is change we can believe in.

By: lark

lark — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:36:30 +0000

EllenD, all I am doing is showing you how we are not doing much for the people of Haiti. For whatever reasons, probably racisism, we just want to put this tragedy behind us. Indugence. Our efforts, as LJ clearly explains are all by the book, not by the heart.

By: lark

lark — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 07:24:59 +0000

EllenD, what I am saying is that ours is not the America of our grandparents and the America of previous decades. We have no interest in problem solving but in patching problems. That is why instead of spending millions we now spend billions and trillions. Our country today is so inneficient all it knows is to spin. As you can see clearly, all Obama, Hillary, Bill and many others are doing is spinning the Haiti catastrophy. None as such, including Hillary and Bill Clinton are statesman, and that is a lot to say, because I have a lot of respect for both of them since I know they are sincere, entrepreneurial and effective. But they are incapacitated by political correctness.

By: Docelder

Docelder — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 05:43:36 +0000

Yes well the stimulus was an investment too. This is just salesman speak to substitute “cost” with “invest”. I swear that guy that writes his speeches must sit around reading books on NLP and how to mind control and manipulate people.

By: EllenD

EllenD — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:26:21 +0000

Lark, as much as you want the U.S. to kick out the Haiti government, it is a foreign sovereign country. We, as with the other countries of the world, have to accept that we are not able to dictate to them what they must do.

By: lark

lark — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:47:28 +0000

I have a feeling that the existing government of Haiti would like to abdicate and resign. I think that is the reason Hillary Clinton is going to the region. Otherwise I don’t see why she would have to go there at this time.

By: lark

lark — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 18:43:51 +0000

Hillary should accept President’s Garcia Preval if he wants to resign and ask then for him to dismiss his cabinet. Then she should ask Obama to name an interim military governor from the U.S. Navy.

Hillary then should address the people of Haiti and let them know that the U.S. is taking over their territory but keeping their legislatave bodies in place as an advisory council to the new governor.

She should reassure Haitians that there would be new elections and a referendum giving them the opportunity to select between entering into a Commonwealth with the U.S. or staying as a sovereign country.

By: Usually silent

Usually silent — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:48:46 +0000

I agree with you. He does deserve congratulations. His site is one of the few that allows an exchange of ideas from vastly diverse viewpoints with minimal flaming.
There is more light than heat here, which is quite rare these days. Thank you, Mr. Johnson

By: BBF

BBF — Sat, 16 Jan 2010 16:19:16 +0000

Ashley Smith…writing in CounterPunch.org

First the Bush administration and now the Obama administration have used the coup and social and natural crises to expand the U.S.’s neoliberal economic plans.

Under Obama, the U.S. has granted Haiti $1.2 billion in debt relief, but it hasn’t canceled all of Haiti’s debt–the country still pays huge sums to the Inter-American Development Bank. The debt relief is classic window-dressing for Obama’s real Haiti policy, which is the same old Haiti policy.

In close collaboration with the new UN Special Envoy to Haiti, former President Bill Clinton, Obama has pushed for an economic program familiar to much of the rest of the Caribbean–tourism, textile sweatshops, and weakening of state control of the economy through privatization and deregulation.

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Thus, as previous U.S. presidencies have done before, the Obama administration has worked to aid Haiti’s elite, sponsor international corporations taking advantage of cheap labor, weaken the ability of the Haitian state to regulate the society, and repress any political resistance to that agenda.

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NOTE:The Obama administration has not lifted the ban against Aristide’s return to Haiti, or the ban on his party, Fanmi Lavalas, from participating in the electoral process.