Two Presidents - compare and contrast
Each President is visiting Africa -- let's take a look:
First -- from
CNS News:
Obama: 'Planet Will Boil Over' If Young Africans Are Allowed Cars, Air-Conditioning, Big Houses
President Barack Obama said at a town hall event in Johannesburg, South Africa, on Saturday that unless we find new way of producing energy "the planet will boil over" if people in Africa are allowed to attain air conditioning, automobiles and big houses.
�Ultimately, if you think about all the youth that everybody has mentioned here in Africa, if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has got a car and everybody has got air conditioning, and everybody has got a big house, well, the planet will boil over -- unless we find new ways of producing energy.�
The president�s comments, made the day before unveiling his �Power Africa� initiative for a �sustainable� African energy strategy, came while speaking at University of Johannesburg-Soweto.
According to Obama, global warming constitutes �the biggest challenge we have environmentally,� one greater than all other environmental calamities like �dirty water, dirty air.�
However, the President�s statements do not reflect statistics released by the United Nations: Based on a data released in October, 2012, the World Health Organization estimated that �Global warming� is responsible for approximately 140,000 excess deaths each year.
By comparison, as many as three million people died from indoor and outdoor air pollution � in other words, over 20 times the number of alleged victims of global warming, according to the Word Health Organization.
The list of victims of unclean drinking water is even more staggering.
According to UNESCO, unsanitized water causes billions of preventable diseases annually, from diarrhea (4 billion), cholera (120,000), malaria (300-500 million), intestinal parasites (25% of world�s population), typhoid (12 million), trachoma (6 million), and schistosomiesis (200 million). list from highest to least affected
The president gave short shrift to these more traditional health concerns during his visit to the continent. Instead, Obama implied several times that the U.S. would only encourage growth in Africa should it be grounded in �clean energy strategies� and not in �corrupting� energy economies that gave rise to unprecedented levels of health and prosperity among Western nations.
And so, Obama is going to dump $7 Billion of our money into Africa but it has to be spent on alt.energy. The outcome is not uncertain -- a few oligarchs will become even more filthy rich and the poor will not see any difference except for one Potemkin generating facility and a few
Potemkin villages. The 300+ comments are worth a read.
Next up -- from the
Times of Zambia:
Zambia: Bush Extols Zambia
Visiting former US President, George W Bush has praised Zambia for being responsive to matters of cervical cancer.
Mr. Bush said he decided to return to Zambia for the second time within a short period because studies conducted revealed that the Zambian Government has been very responsive to the cervical cancer fight.
He said credit should go to the country's First Lady Christine Kaseba who was knowledgeable on matters of cervical cancer.
He was speaking in Livingstone yesterday when he together with his wife Laura and 20 US volunteers participated in the painting and refurbishing of Mosi-oa-Tunya Clinic which was in a deplorable state.
Mr. Bush is in Zambia to support the Pink Ribbon-Red Ribbon initiative.
In Zambia, Pink Ribbon-Red Ribbon is an innovative partnership between the US President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR), George W Bush Institute and the Zambian Government.
It also involves Susan G Komen for Cure, Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS), corporate as well as Non-Governmental Organisation (NGO) partners.
Cervical and breast cancer are the two leading causes of deaths among women in sub-Sahara and Zambia has the second highest rate of cervical cancer in the world.
Emphasis mine -- he and Laura actually rolled up their sleeves and got to work doing what was needed.
Some photos:
One picture is worth 1,000 words -- the Imperial President versus the man of the people.
Ruling versus Leadership...
Posted by DaveH at July 2, 2013 10:23 AM