Von Tonner |
05-01-15 01:41 AM |
"Bow before the Beneficent: Bill, Billionaires and the Clinton Foundation go on safari"
A very witty and cutting article on the Clintons.
Loved this:
"That said, it may be tempt some among you to imagine that the Clintons and their Foundationites are using the continent as a theatre set, and we Africans as drooling extras, in a play in which we are meant to get fancy diseases for pennies while they play the hero for dollars. It is tempting to say that this is all about big money and real politick, because Bill and Hillary Clinton, along with their Chelsea clone, serve power for power’s sake. You might wish to say that this all seems so garish and ghastly, millions of dollars blown by a 0.1% cabal on swanning about the continent, billions of the world’s wealth zipping over the African savannah in a legions of Lear Jets.
But you would just be sour to think that way. Ungrateful. When the beautiful waxed SUVs zip into your village and you smell the $1,500 anti-aging cream on the frozen faces of these Kings, these Gods, remember to thank them with the appropriate deference. Remember to bow and scrape.
If we don’t look the part, then they don’t get the money. And the whole system will come crashing down."
And a comment from a reader of the article:
"Richard - you left out the 'misspoken' bits of gentle 'Whitewater' rafting and coming under 'sniper fire' - but I'm sure Bill will regale us with these, and other stories, while gently smoking his 'Monica Humidored' Habanos cigars?"
http://www.dailymaverick.co.za/artic...F#.VUMbu9Kqqko
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