George W. Bush helps renovate health center on Africa trip

[a kennedy]

DALLAS (AP) — Former President George W. Bush has been helping to renovate a women’s cancer screening center in Zambia during a weeklong trip to Africa.

Bush, clad in a T-shirt and jeans, painted and hauled lumber at the Ngungu Health Center in Kabwe, about 90 miles north of the Zambian capital, Lusaka. The center will start screening and treating women Tuesday for cervical cancer and pre-cancer.

The former president and his wife, Laura, are in Africa to promote a partnership between the George W. Bush Institute, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, UNAIDS and Susan G. Komen for the Cure that aims to fight cervical and breast cancer in sub-Saharan Africa.

The George W. Bush Presidential Center says the Bushes arrived in Africa over the weekend.

http://thegrio.com/2012/07/03/bush-helps-renovate-health-center-on-africa-trip/#s:bush-does-good-in-africa-16x9

[BeHereNow]

1. I call bullshit. The "health center" is a cover up story for nefarious back room dealings.

The BFEE doesn't do anything that does not serve its own.
BHN

[2pooped2pop]

2. same thing came to my mind

He probably hauled 1 pc of wood for the photo op. Everything else was done for money in some way. He probably plans to get US subsidy money for his aids foundation or mother fucking somehing like that.

This fucker don't do charity WORK of any kind.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

4. I hate the guy immensely. But, Bono praises him for what he did for Africa and AIDs

[2pooped2pop]

5. Maybe Bono didn't follow the money

Cause I do not believe that GW has it in him to do something out of kindness, love or goodness. There must be something in it for him. This is the same preztledent who helped block condoms from getting to Africa isn't he? In the name of Christianity he chose to help make aids worse (and I believe I read that aids cases did rise when they took away US aid that paid for condoms)

So Bono can praise him for what he sees on the surface, but my money is on GW's profit line.

[HiPointDem]

19. bono & bush = buds

[HiPointDem]

15. Bono is a scammer, taxcheat, asshat. Not a big surprising he praises Bush since he's part of the

same crowd.

U2 frontman Bono has a lot on his mind.

He’s so goshdarn busy – what with trying to save the world and singing formulaic songs in iPod adverts – that he occasionally puts his hat down and forgets to take it with him when he leaves.

"But wait," we hear you cry, "how will Bono keep his rakish flamboyant air without his hat? What will he do? What, for Christ’s sake? WHAT???"

Not to worry. Because (according to an American newspaper) Bono – who wants you to cut back on the odd luxury and give all your money to the poor, remember – is more than prepared to spend $1,700 on flying his favourite bit of headgear from London to Italy.

First class, no less.

http://www.hecklerspray.com/bono-spends-thousands-on-transporting-hat/20051860.php

[Solly Mack]

3. Did he help build a torture chamber...or just watch?

Fuck Bush.

[davidpdx]

6. Talk about coming out of the closet

[choie]

7. I'm going to puke

are they going to require that the participants become born again Christians?

[TwilightGardener]

9. That's nice of him and Laura. No need to shit on a good deed.

[Tom Rinaldo]

10. Good acts should be acknowledged, just like bad acts should be acknowledged

Barring evidence to the contrary I am willing to consider this a good one. Bono is a good enough character witness on this issue to force me to keep an open mind. One thing George W. Bush was not and is not (compared to many Republican and Tea Party voters) is personally racist. His record was also relatively good on humanitarian issues in Africa.

Nowadays Republicans are singing the mantra that giving anyone assistance on virtually anything only makes folks dependent and lazy. W at least never fully signed on to that ideology.

[choie]

11. revisionism?

You don't think that the patriot act, Iraq war, etc. smelled of racism? (i.e. anti-Arabs, muslims, etc.)

[Tom Rinaldo]

12. I said I don't think George W. Bush is a personal racist

I didn't say that his policies did not contribute to racist outcomes. That is one (not the only) of the reasons why the term institutional racism was developed. George W. Bush does not believe that whites are superior to blacks etc., though he may well believe that his peers are superior to his non peers - and generally in his socio economic bracket his peers are white. His respect for and warmth toward african americans and latinos in his own personal inner circle (and family) is clear and not feigned. He actually has blacks and latinos in his personal inner circle, unlike many Republicans who seem to only keep a few around as window dressing.ia edit P.S

Added via edit P.S.

Unlike most Republicans since him who constantly pander toward the Tea Party, W actually expressed support for and defended the American Islamic Community after 9/11. Yes I am only talking about words spoken, but sometimes it is important what words an American President is willing to say. Most of the Republicans who ran against Romney for the G.O.P. nomination this year would not have done the same, and I'm not sure Romney would have either.

[ananda]

13. Rehabilitating his image?

Well, it looks like a decent thing to do.

I worry about the connection with Susan G Komen, though, after
all the Planned Parenthood flap.

Also, I'm wondering if there are conditions involved in renovating
this center, such as banning family planning and abortion.

[Initech]

14. One good thing doesn't make up for 8 years of the death and destruction his administration brought.

[Tyrs WolfDaemon]

16. He is probably building a little place to ship his

Parents off to when they get more senile. He undoubtedly sees it as his way to finally assume control of the BFEE.

[derby378]

17. Any time Shrub does something like this, I always ask, "What's in it for him?"

All of us are motivated by self-interest to some degree, but with George W., it's all self-interest.

[Raven]

18. Old Saying: "Charity begins at home." n/t

[former9thward]

20. Old right wing saying.

So we shouldn't help Africa? ok.