The Desperation in Haiti needs no further commentary, especially from an ingnoramus like this scribbler.
One observation though: The fact that POTUS Obama tapped both Clinton and Bush 43 to get the charity effort mobilized was one of the best happenstances to emerge from the otherwise bleak parade of destruction and suffering which dominated the week's news.
It says a lot about the scope of this thing. And it happened the same week odious bloviator Rush Limbaugh somehow managed to racialize the horrific crisis and ridicule the President for responding so quickly. The same week as an increasingly dotty Pat Robertson managed to neatly trace the roots of this disaster back to a deal with the devil. One supposes he's seen the paperwork.
The foul stench of partisanship and ideology, mostly from the American Right, it has to be said, was stark and stupid when juxtaposed against the unimaginable suffering in Haiti.
Yet, watching and listening to the three Presidents exhort their fellow citizens to roll out the aid dough showed America at its best. The one that all too often seems mistily long-ago and mythical.
It just kind of gives one heart that, when it gets right down to it, when it really, really matters, there are actual grown-ups running the U.S.A.
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