Posted on 09/26/2002 11:58:45 AM PDT by Shermy
KIGALI, Rwanda - They make an unlikely troika: Oscar-winning actor Kevin Spacey, comedian Chris Tucker and former President Bill Clinton.
But they're united in their cause of fighting AIDS and encouraging economic development in Africa.
Clinton, Spacey and Tucker are on a five-day tour of Ghana, Nigeria, Rwanda, Mozambique and South Africa; they head back to the United States on Sunday.
On his first trip to Africa, Spacey despaired at the ravages caused by AIDS, and the difficulty of getting people in the United States to pay attention.
"HIV/AIDS is the single most important issue facing the world today," the actor said Wednesday, watching Clinton charm the crowd at a dusty health center in this tiny central African nation.
"If we don't begin to tackle this one, then it doesn't much matter what else we try to do because we are going to be faced with a devastating plague that would wipe out generations."
After two previous trips to Africa this year — first with Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill and later with Secretary of State Colin Powell — Tucker said he needed to visit the continent again to learn more about it.
"In every country I go to, I just find myself falling more in love with Africa," said Tucker, who co-starred with Jackie Chan in the action comedy "Rush Hour" series. "I just had to come and see what more I can do to help."
Tucker also is watching Clinton closely in preparation for his starring role in "Mr. President," a movie about America's first black head of state.
The former president refused the red carpet treatment Rwandan authorities wanted to lay on for him, and instead plunged into a crowd of captivated patients at an AIDS health center his Clinton Foundation plans to support.
One doesn't know where to begin after reading a nugget like this. I guess Mr. Actor never heard of 9/11. And the image of Mr. Slime "charming" the natives is too nausea-inducing to contemplate. All in all, it looks like these folks deserve each other.
I thought Clinton was "the first black president".
By whose reckoning?
Much easier to cop a feel that way.
What complete utter BS. This man couldn't survive one day by himself in Africa and would never give up ANYTHING that his lving in this great country hs allowed him to achieve. Chris loves Africa? Yeh, right.
I feel confident that this represents at the very least a money laundering scheme. He may well apply for various "grants" from the UN or other NGOs, but those patients will never see the money. No doubt there are lots of familar names on the board of this "foundation". He and his friends will be rip-off artists until the day they die.
Oh yeah. Sure. It will make all the difference in the world that these cyphers are "united" in this.
One thing is sure - these clowns won't be using any of their own money for any of this.
They coopted Bono on this globalist angle. It was funny watching him spout off pro-bank line against O'Neill, who was trying to promote direct aid to actual African citizens.
O'Neill, who was trying to promote direct aid to actual African citizens
I don't ever remember hearing about that. It sounds like a good idea to me.
I'm not against helping people. I'm very much against lining the vaults of billionaires.
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