Comments on: It’s Been A Year, Obama – What About The People Of Darfur?

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By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:26:42 +0000

Maybe other nations should step up and help Darfur. We are just plain broke. Why should the USA be the first to help over and over and over again?

By: Lee

Lee — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 20:24:51 +0000

I think it’s time for other nations to start taking on more to help Darfur and Haiti. WE are broke. I want our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. I want our tax dollars to help rebuild the USA.

By: Docelder

Docelder — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:20:33 +0000

At the risk of sounding crass… I agree. What if a major earthquake hit San Frqancisco? Would we expect the people in San Francisco to migrate to England for a while? Would we expect England to welcome them? Or, wold we expect people in San Francisco to move to Los Angeles, Sacramento or Las Vegas and carry on? I know Haiti was hit hard, but it’s not the whole nation which was destroyed. I have this fear too of a several hundred thousand unskilled immigrants who can’t speak English and that practice some form of Voodoo religion entering Florida with no way to sustain themselves and with little chance to integrate. Florida was hit hard by hurricanes for two years in a row, insurance rates tripled, real estate started falling hard even before the real estate crash. Florida properties are trading at around 60% of value right now. We just had a freeze kill 30% of the crops. Strawberry farmers in central Florida used so much water trying to save their berries in a week long freeze that rural people with wells haven’t had running water for weeks now. Florida has it’s own problems right now. Unemployment here is staggering for a state that never had high wages to begin with. Tourism is dead. People are abandoning their homes here and they are selling at auction for way less than replacement cost and destroying the property values of the people who remain. It is butt ugly here economically. I don’t think the state can shoulder several hundred thousand of these people, I really don’t.

By: stodghie

stodghie — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 19:03:26 +0000

rev amy this is not ordinary times. it is more than we will always have problems. we are literally sinking.

i am concerned that hatians will all show up in flordia. i am reading about that in other periodicals. we can’t do it.

what we can do in dafur is gig the un into more activity and responsibility including other world governments. you can’t spend what we no longer have. we have to think first about our own people. i saw people from hurricane ike begging for help here and saw katrina victims STILL ON HOUSING whereas most ike victims were told tough!

By: Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:36:16 +0000

Stodghie and Sassy, I hear what you are saying, truly. And yes, our country, after one year of Obama, is in dire straits, to be sure. And while we cannot solve all the world’s ills, we can, and should, fulfill our commitments, which we are far from doing in Darfur and other areas. I don’t expect a huge outlay of time and money, but to do the very least Obama said he would do would be an improvement.

The thing is, we will ALWAYS have people in need in our own country, as wel as others. We will ALWAYS have pressing problems at home. But we are also a part of the world community, and as such, have responsibilities there, too.

I’m not saying I have all the answers – goddess knows, I surely do not – but our Sec. of State thinks this is an important issue, and one that needs attention. If we can do so much in Haiti, and spend so much money there, why can we not help in Darfur where the disaster is HUMAN made, not Nature made?

Thanks for the compliment, too, Sassy – so sweet of you. I very much appreciate the discussion, and the thoughtful comments by everyone here. Thank you!!

By: Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:30:24 +0000

Peggy Sue, no problem – you nailed it. It is all abt Obama’s words, not actions.

Funny abt Favreau – yes, he deserves it.

But WE don’t deserve what this man has done to our country, or the failed promises that affect people on a daily basis. Someone tell me again, just HOW did he get “elected”???

By: Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy

Rabble Rouser Rev. Amy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:27:41 +0000

Dangit – that was me. Sheesh. My computer crashed – again – and I forgot to sign in again. Sorry!

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:26:44 +0000

Yes, Teak, yes – that is so right on target on all counts, the schools/children, women being raped (have you heard abt the area in Texas where elderly women who live alone are being targeted by a serial rapist??). Spot on.

By: Sassy

Sassy — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 14:26:33 +0000

Amy, I know you have a generous and loving heart, and I am not being critical or argumentative.
Our quiver is nearly as empty as our wallets though.
We are in a cycle of world-wide recession, shortages of resources, over-population, and many countries willing to use force to keep out refugees.
Many of the world’s problems may come down to survival of the strong, to the detriment of the weak…hard to bear, but realistic.

By: elaine

elaine — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:29:53 +0000

I listened to Louis Farrakhan preach about how Omar el Bashir is misunderstood, the slavery & rapes are all just “tribal traditions that go back thousands of years”… & Farrakhan convinced his audience of African Americans that el Bashir is a stand up guy & good Muslim. Once I spoke with a Vatican emmisary who had met with el Bashir to inquire as to the status of a Roman Catholic priest(s) incarcerated/tortured in Sudan & el Bashir was such a smooth talker he about had the emmisary convinced the incarcerations were justified, supposedly Omar can be very persuasive & charismatic. The International Court has issued a warrant for el Bashir’s arrest for human rights violations. So I say let the boys in the powder blue helmets go serve the warrant & make the arrest. They, not us, supposedly have the jurisdiction. Some of our troops are on their 3rd deployments in Iraq/Afghanistan. We are not the sheriff of the world.

By: elaine

elaine — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 07:43:37 +0000

Apparently the U.N. prefurs to think of Darfur as an area in civil war & the U.S. appears to have adopted a policy of only militarily interceeding to protect Muslims, a policy concocted through an addiction to foreign oil & lubricated with copious amounts of bizarre p.c. We have become oh so hip-wah now that we’re living in a European style post-Christian era. All of that aside, we have no shortage of roving, theiving, murderous gangs right here in the U.S.A. & we can’t really afford many more foreign interventions right now. It’s tragic but our hands are full.

By: Onofre's arm

Onofre's arm — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 05:37:28 +0000

From the beginning of Obama’s campaign, the youthful furor in support of his phony vision, combined with such creepy episodes of the little girl singing “Obama’s gonna change the world”, always reminded me of this haunting gem.

By: sowsear

sowsear — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 04:54:33 +0000

And we can’t take in all of these Haitians either. Already we’re giving special status to 200,000 here illegally.
I agree charity begins at home and then we do what we can for others.