I am a sneaky one, ain't I? LOL!!!
I AM intrigued with the responses thus far. The mere mention of Africa seems to push a hot button with some.
Someone asked if I had read my Alinsky. Not recently, but maybe the source guy has. He's getting attention, isn't he?
Finally, for now - bottom line is that I am worried that Joe Carr's campaign to challenge Lamar! is languishing a bit and I will take any opportunity I can to get notice out that Lamar! does have opposition.
I don't think it has to do with Africa, specifically. There are folks who believe that charity begins at home, and that we should take care of Americans in need before taking care of Africans, or Indonesians, or South Americans in need.
As well, the attack on Sen. Alexander is, apart from the fact that the appeal was for African orphans, lamebrained. As others have noted, many of us get many solicitations for charitable giving. As a United States Senator, I wouldn't be surprised is Mr. Alexander gets even more than most of us.
Part of the problem is that if one gives a few bucks one time to one charity, suddenly, one is inundated with charitable appeals from every sympathetic cause imaginable. I figure that every dollar of charitable giving my wife and I make elicits $10 is direct mail and $100 in charitable telemarketing. It sometimes makes me feel guilty for giving the dollar.
I gave something like $25 to a particular charity some years back, and I've received literally dozens of pieces of direct mail from them since, as well as a couple of telephone calls (which annoys me to no end, as I never provided my phone number, and it is unlisted and unpublished). Conservatively, they've spent more soliciting additional dollars from me than I ever gave them.
This is really a cheap attack on the senator, and it's beneath you to post, unless you're actually for Sen. Alexander and thus posting this to point out the stupidity of those who oppose Sen. Alexander. I imagine there are all sorts of substantive reasons to oppose Mr. Alexander's re-election, but this actually makes me feel like sending him $50 out of sympathy.
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