Haiti Needs More Than Sarah Palin's Determined Grin

[DainBramaged]

Sarah Palin, the erstwhile politician and potential candidate for U.S. president, was off limits to the media, except Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, for most of her visit to Haiti this weekend.

But Palin finally spoke briefly at a press conference today.

"Haiti has been a country that has suffered in the past and is going to continue to suffer until some fundamental changes are being made here," said Palin, who was accompanying the Rev. Franklin Graham, director of Samaritan's Purse, an evangelical charitable organization operating in Haiti. If Sarah Palin wants change for Haiti, though, I hope she will first be changed by Haiti.

Tuesday night, a roving gang, setting fire to a car, aimed rocks at my head when I attempted to take a photo. I just threw my hands in the air, in surrender. By today, I was catching photos of Palin's cheerful, determined grin. And again, I was tempted to throw my hands in the air. The country was catapulted further into crisis this past week, after many felt the presidential election, mired in fraud, failed to reflect the democratic vote of the people. For three days, Port-au-Prince was shuttered and innocent bystanders sprinted through the streets to find safety.

Palin spoke for five minutes today in this coastal city of about 60,000. She declined to take questions at the press conference.

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Happy Sunday unrecing crew, I see you got LOTS of rest. Pigs.

[msongs]

1. first thing Haiti should do is KICK out Franklin Graham and all his kind nt

[TheCowsCameHome]

2. I can just imagine what was going through her (empty) mind

"Thank goodness we don't have these (fill in the blank) back home in Alaska" would be my first thought.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. This is PURELY photo op for Sarah

who really couldn't care less about brown people. And Franklin Graham makes me sick with his conditional brand of charity.

[ixion]

7. yeah, they'll call it "foreign policy experience" in the 'election'

just watch...

[DainBramaged]

9. Oh wait, those shelters are for Christians.....

And if the President was 'born' a Muslin, I guess all of those children who's Mothers were Christians give up the right to determine the religion of their children.


Scumbag.

[tosh]

4. "fumdamental changes"...

no shit, sherlock.

This is what happens when kleptocracy, neglect of infrastructure, gross disparity of income, privitization and all of the rest of the rethug agenda are allowed to take hold in a country.

Open your eyes, fuckhead palin.

:banghead:

[BrklynLiberal]

5. A smallminded, selfish, grifter. Out for herself, and willing to use ANYONE, including children, to

get what she wants.
I hope she comes to the end she deserves.

Is there a vaccination for cholera?

[Whoa_Nelly]

6. oh, goody!

The idiotic laughable statements re: Haiti have begun! Can hardly wait for more so I can post them all over the place :evilgrin:

Spreading Palin's stupidity now, and continuing to keep it alive on the Internet, and the even faster fire of the Tweets, will surely help in keeping her miles away from any nom to run for POTUS. :bounce:

[KharmaTrain]

8. Look Closely Mooselini...

...this is the country your puppetmasters are turning the US into. Rule of and by the rich where the rest have to fend for themselves. She probably thinks locals there are called "Haters".

:rofl: