04/26/07 Bush's Compassion Agenda

While the media revels in the sport of Bush bashing I would like to take my lone minute to reflect on some of the global contributions his administration has made. For one, President Bush has done more than any president (other than Lincoln) to fight the slave trade. The president has made the 21st Century slave trade part of his "compassion agenda" one that also includes unprecedented funding for AIDES. Anti- slave trafficking programs in more than 120 countries have received nearly three hundred million dollars and 24 nations have enacted new laws to combat trade in human lives. Most recently, Bush has taking the unpopular stance of creating a new policy within the Food For Peace program that would help diminish the middlemen and funds lost to large agribusiness and shipping conglomerates. Under his revision food would be purchased from regions' adjacent to the hunger crisis. Former President Clinton speaking at a recent charity event remarked this change would a great help to farmers in Africa and would be to president Bush's "everlasting credit" that he proposed buying food aid in poor countries. Hum, Clinton accolades, food aide, a stance against big business, human rights issues, where's the liberal press when you need them?