Bush in Africa

February 25th, 2008 at 2:06 am

In the U.S. we usually call rural, undeveloped land either “the middle of nowhere” or home, depending on perspective. In Africa they call it the bush, but it seems every mention of a Bush these days is referring to George W. or Laura.

The president recently toured Africa generating a storm of media attention and plenty of posts on the sister blog to this one. Most of the coverage focused on the president’s legacy in Africa with PEPFAR for AIDS, the malaria intiative, debt relief commitments in 2005, and the development of the Millennium Challenge Corporation in 2002. The fact that many people who voted against him twice and several papers who endorsed his opponents are now some of his biggest supporters on these programs says a lot about the power of ONE’s issues to unify people.

The Kaiser Family Foundation put together a list of some of the editorials on the trip to Africa available below.

http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_hiv.cfm#50551

One in particular I liked was an op-ed in the Los Angeles Times. One of the main themes of this election cycle is change and this op-ed looks toward the future and what changes are needed to improve upon these programs in the next administration.

– Steve