Tea time at the White House with the First Lady

[Baby Snooks]

I wonder how many realized the gravity of the situation in Burma. I didn't. Given the gravity of the various political situations around the world created by her husband, the situation in Burma, while serious, is nonetheless not on the "top ten list" at the UN or anywhere else. But it is on the top of the list for Laura Bush.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/05/AR2007090502310.html?hpid%3Dsec-world&sub=AR

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1659170,00.html?xid=feed-yahoo-full-world

Notice the way the stories were written and/or edited. The Washington Post story was "per the quotes" including Laura Bush's obvious little slam at Putin while the Time story seems to have been run through the White House press office for approval. It is more a pr piece for Laura Bush than a story. To remind us, perhaps, that there is a kinder, gentler individual in the White House. If you believe Eva Braun was kinder and gentler than Adolph Hitler, the Time story will tug at your heart. If you have one.

Rather than concern herself with the growing social problems in her own country caused by her husband and his domestic policies, Laura Bush seeks to save the world instead. Starting with Burma. While ignoring Iraq and Afghanistan and the entire Middle East. Not to mention the situation in Darfur. But of course like so many others, she doesn't want to upset the Chinese government. Who she praises for their support of her cause in Burma. While the genocide in Darfur continues. With the support of the Chinese government.

All of her criticisms against the military junta in Burma of course could be made against her husband as well. But apparently that seems to escape her. Quite a bit seems to escape her.

Tea time at the White House with the First Lady.

[Hydra]

1. It never ceases to amaze me

how many people look for glory when doing "charity." There are plenty of starving and homeless here in America- why do we always look outside our borders first?

[YOY]

2. Because they fall to the myth that poverty in America is the poor's fault

n/t

[Hydra]

3. I suppose that's true

"The land of opportunity"

Funny...I don't see many of those available to a non-moneyed person such as myself.

[YOY]

4. This is a country that thinks Donald Trump started from scratch

and Bush is a good ol' Texas boy (by way of Kennebunkport)...

[Hydra]

5. The power of delusional myth

I learn more about that every day...

[bobbolink]

6. And why are animals always so much more important than people?

Indeed, so many pertinent questions.....

[Hydra]

8. animals are people

but you're right- at what point are "no good people" worth less than pretty animals like tigers, seal cubs or polar bears?

[stillcool]

7. I get scared...

every time the Bushies show interest in anything. It's a bad omen..