Posted on 06/24/2005 8:46:17 AM PDT by MikeEdwards
Bob Geldof, the fading B-class rocker formerly of the "Boomtown Rats", recently made it known that Prime Minister Paul Martin wasn’t welcome at the upcoming G-8 summit unless he was prepared to cough up .7% of Canada’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) to help "fight poverty" in Africa. Geldof must have the balls of a canal horse to think that who is or is not invited to attend the summit depends on him.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
I would love to line up kerry, kennedy, pelosi, schumer, clinton, boxer,launtenberg, durbin, reid, leahy and esp. biden /mccain and slap them continously 24/7 until 2006 and then when they finally stand up let sheets byrd crap on them!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1
If Geldof is pissing off the smug, self-rightious Canadian media, he's OK by me.
Quoting from the article: "...you can throw all the money in the world at African poverty, but until such time as Africans themselves take control of their own destiny, throw out their corrupt and greedy leaders and commit to democracy, it won’t change a thing."
BINGO! And it's about time someone had the courage to stand up and say so instead of yielding to the guilt trips laid on us "wealthy nations" by weenie socialists.
t'wit, are you in a snit?
However, Prime Minister Paul Martin is prepared to cough up the balls of a canal horse!
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