Clinton Bush Haiti Fund

Sunday, January 17th at 12:36PM EST

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The Clinton Bush Haiti fund website is running a little more smoothly today. If you had trouble donating yesterday, try again. Or if you prefer, please visit Billy Graham’s website for information, updates, and to donate.

I’m not going to go at length here. You’re hearing and seeing what I am. I don’t have to tell you about the suffering, the cries in the night, the bodies on the streets. I don’t have to ask you to imagine the families huddled together in pain, or worse, struggling to find a lost loved one. You watch the news. What’s happened, and is happening, in Haiti is a massive tragedy. It is pain and loss and suffering and horror … and it isn’t over. Most of us have already donated money. Maybe we used a txt donation. Maybe the Red Cross. Maybe even the White House website. But that’s not the end of it. It’s not over for the men, women and children in Haiti. The mothers and fathers and brothers and sisters and daughters and sons. It’s just begun.

Please, on this blessed Sunday, take a moment to thank God for the privilege of living in the United States of America. And then share some of our even yet magnificent bounty. Please take the time to help.

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Done

fenriswolfkpc Sunday, January 17th at 12:53PM EST (link)

Let us support Haiti with both our wallets and our prayers.

I'm going out on a politically incorrect limb here, but....

H (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 1:16PM EST (link)

I gave ’til it hurts at church today. I will sleep well tonight knowing my contribution will go directly to help families (of all faiths and even non-believing families). I will rest doubly knowing that my contribution will not pass through any UN handlers and be used in any proportion to rebuild their secular culture-of-death network in Haiti or anywhere else.

I'm confident

Caleb Howe (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 1:24PM EST (link)

That Billy Graham isn’t building a secular culture of death.

Caleb Howe (formerly known as absentee)

I thought it was clear ...

H (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 4:35PM EST (link)

I was referring to the Bush/Clinton initiative, not Franklin Graham.

And does anyone else get the heebie jeebies seeing Clinton sitting next to Bush 41 or Bush 43 every time he needs to appear presidential for a worthy cause? It must just kill him and his OL knowing he could never pull it off as a solo act even if his life depended on it.

Agree

uttles (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 1:31PM EST (link)

No way I would give any money to Haiti. Seeing these two beg us for our money just cements my opinion that it would be a better use of money to light it on fire.

~~~ www.itsmyblog.com

Bush is letting himself be used as a prop by

throwback59 Sunday, January 17th at 4:49PM EST (link)

Obama. Shame on him.
Speaking of Obama, notice how the bloodless bureaucrat could only deliver a few desultory remarks after the Fort hood massacre but now gives daily impassioned speeches for Haiti?
The laid back Chief Executive who couldn’t interrupt his vacation for 3 days to address the Christmas bombing, began organizing a rescue mission for Haiti in 3 hrs.
The reluctant Commander in Chief, loathe to use miltary assets to advance American interests is eager to use aircraft carriers as 5 billion dollar ambulances and American warriors as soup kitchen attendants.
Bizarre behavoir for an American President, but logical for the World’s President.
Guess I’m just a heartless reactionary going off talking points.

Or maybe President George Bush is just trying to do

janis (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:01PM EST (link)

what he thinks might help some truly needy people at a terrible time in their country’s history. If ever a POTUS could be counted on to step up to the plate for the sake of others and not for the sake of his ego, it is George Bush.

Notice that he’s not out campaigning for someone while he just gives lip service to wanting to help those in Haiti. Unlike Bill Clinton.

Also

Next93 (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:16PM EST (link)

No one is ever going to accuse me of being a fan of the current president, but even flatworms will eventually learn a lesson if the stimulus is painful enough.

President Panywaist’s lukewarm response to the incidents you listed caused his best friends (the MSM) to pry thier lips off of his posterior long enough work up some (weak) critcicizm. It was a new experience for him, and he discovered that he didn’t like it.

Plus, he’d probably wants to avoid giving Kanye West (whom he rightly described as a “jackass”) a reason to say that Barak Obama hates black people.

Obama was The One in 2008.
He’ll be a BIGGER one in 2012.

You can't turn down something like this

Jeff Weimer (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:10PM EST (link)

No matter you’re political bent, and no matter if you’re being used as a “prop”. it goes beyond that, and should be looked at as beyond politics. Or is GWB’s request of Bill Clinton during the Tsunami a similar prop?

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.
-Voltaire

W never considered himself President of the

throwback59 Sunday, January 17th at 6:53PM EST (link)

World the way Obama does, and wasn’t trying to curry favor world-wide. His request of Clinton was sincere, not a cold calculated effort. And he didn’t spend every waking moment trashing Clinton.
Bush’s heart may be in the right place, but he is being used. He should write a check and stay in Crawford.

Bush is doing this because he's a decent man.

Third Street (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:12PM EST (link)

Maybe it’s crossed his mind that Obama might have a political calculation; maybe it hasn’t. But even if he did think Obama was using him, he would still be stepping up to help the people of Haiti, because he knows it’s the American thing to do.

“Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure nineteen nineteen six, result happiness. Annual income twenty pounds, annual expenditure twenty pounds ought and six, result misery.” –Wilkins Micawber, “David Copperfield”

Giving

paulnashtn Sunday, January 17th at 1:34PM EST (link)

Giving is great but PLEASE know who you are giving to!!!
My preference is UMCOR

and Salvation Army

in both, close to 100% goes to actual relief and while there are a few others in this category, there are many that only 10% to 50% actually winds up helping those for whom the money is intended

giving

paulnashtn Sunday, January 17th at 1:37PM EST (link)

I put links to give to these 2 organizations but evidently they would not post so you can search the names and very easily give directly to their Haiti relief efforts

UMCOR leader killed in Haiti

Steve Maley (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:46PM EST (link)

http://www.disasternews.net/news/article.php?articleid=4006

United Methodists are mourning the death of the Rev. Sam W. Dixon Jr., the head of the United Methodist Committee on Relief (UMCOR) who died last week in Haiti as a result of injuries received when the hotel in which he was meeting collapsed.

Dixon and several other mission and relief specialists had been dropped off at a the Hotel Montana in Port-au-Prince hotel just minutes before the earthquake hit. The hotel collapsed as a result of the quake, pinning the UMCOR team and many others beneath its rubble.

The rest of the team was rescued Friday after 55-hours in the ruins of the collapsed hotel, although the Rev. Clint Rabb, head of The United Methodist office of mission volunteers, was reported to be in critical but stable condition in a Florida hospital Saturday morning. Earlier reports had indicated Dixon had survived the disaster.

The UMCOR team had been in Haiti last week for meetings with other humanitarian organizations working to improve medical services in that country.

Here’s the UMCOR link: http://gbgm-umc.org/umcor/emergency/haiti.stm

The blogger formerly known as ‘Vladimir’.

The measure of a man

jeannieology (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 2:08PM EST (link)

http://jeannie-ology.com/?p=5296

Please, on this blessed Sunday, take a moment to thank God for the privilege of living in the United States of America

joliefleurs Sunday, January 17th at 3:21PM EST (link)

Amen to that, Caleb Howe!

Blackfive and other military bloggers are supporting a rescue team that’s already on the ground. I donated.

http://www.blackfive.net/main/2010/01/rescue-mission.html

They are already in the business of saving children.

4life (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 3:46PM EST (link)

Kids Alive is a Christian mission organization that runs orphanages all over the world, including Haiti and the Dominican Republic. My husband and I have been giving to their work in the DR for years, and just gave more. The DR government chose them to receive the first 50 Haitian orphans and I expect they will end up caring for many more. They are good at what they do. You can read about them and give here: www.kidsalive.org

A little note. When a powerful huricane hit the DR about ten years ago, the orphanage we support had no buildings damaged. Trees were everywhere on the property. Next to buildings, across roads, and power was restored to the property two months later, the damage was that bad. But no building was touched. The hand of God, no doubt.

Watching Jonatha Hunt today

Scope (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:24PM EST (link)

reporting from Haiti, especially about an orphanage where there are babies as young as 3 days old, made me cry. He has been begging for help for these children. As of today, he said that not one person has gone to help them, and, everyone knows they are there. The whole situation is heartbreaking, but, seeing these babies rips your heart clear out of your chest.

ps- Some of the children have already been adopted

Scope (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:26PM EST (link)

by Americans. Hopefully they will make it to new homes soon.

Blessings to Jonathan Hunt

4life (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:54PM EST (link)

for showing these children to the world. I think I just saw that report on Fox, though I missed the beginning. Surely someone will get to them soon. Until then we can pray for their deliverance.

Not long after I posted this

Scope (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 6:29PM EST (link)

Jonathan Hunt reported that the Red Cross had gotten to them. God Bless Jonathan, and the babies.

thank you for this diary caleb

Politics1001 Sunday, January 17th at 4:00PM EST (link)

“Anyone who isn’t a Liberal before the age of 30 has no heart …. and anyone who is still a Liberal after the age of 30 has no brain”.

extremely well presented, Caleb -nt

E Pluribus Unum (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 5:13PM EST (link)

Kill the Terrorists
Protect the Borders
Punch the Hippies h/t IMAO

Our money is going here...

seasonedrn Sunday, January 17th at 5:18PM EST (link)

Our daughter worked here for two summers and I can’t say enough about this program….just wanted to pass the information along…. http://www.sifat.org/wordpress/

They have ties in Haiti and are bringing them a service that will sustain them beyond the earthquake recovery.

And mine here...

GregInFla (Diary) Sunday, January 17th at 10:00PM EST (link)

World Vision has been in Haiti for a long while.

– A true evolutionist would let endangered species die off. Think about it.
– The sign outside the courthouse said no signs allowed. So I took it down.
– Atlas Shrugged is now on the non-fiction aisle at Amazon.