"Always aim high, work hard, and care deeply about what you believe in. When you stumble, keep faith. When you're knocked down, get right back up. And NEVER listen to anyone who says you can't or shouldn't go on." - Hillary Clinton -
President Clinton's heading to Africa and then on to Mexico City for the International AIDS Conference. He headed out to Ethiopia yesterday and will travel on to Rwanda, Liberia, and Senegal. But before he left, he taped the following message...
And they attacked this great man as a racist in order to win some primary votes. I hope they're proud of themselves.
Meanwhile, Bill's following his amazing wife's lead in getting to work on something that will save (literally) millions of lives.
His foundation has a BLOG on it, where his Deputy Country Director in Ethiopia (Peter Huffman) posted a few thoughts yesterday in anticipation of Bill's arrival...
President Clinton's plane is about to take off from the US as I write this, and he will be arriving in Ethiopia - the country of "13 months of sunshine" (albeit it has been raining nonstop the last week!) - in less than a day.
This morning, more than 1,000 volunteers from the community came together with our staff and government counterparts, to prepare for his arrival.
On Friday, his first event will be at Godino Health Center, which is approximately 100 kilometers from the capital city, Addis Ababa. Godino is one of 50 similar rural communities throughout the country, where we will be establishing family-focused, comprehensive rural community models of healthcare, with the goal of improving the lives of the 85% of Ethiopians living in rural areas. The entire community is eagerly planning for the large event -more than 10,000 people will attend the massive kickoff of this new program.
Look I know this is a bit off-topic but recent conversations about the primaries and the baseless and hateful attacks on the Clintons - as racists - reminded me of the need to push back against the lies. President Clinton - this great man and his foundation get results. They have a record of accomplishemtns and the work he's doing is saving lives - right now.
Go to his foundation's website and check out the "What We Do" page. You'll find info and links to no less than 7 initiatives that are making a real difference in millions of lives all over the world.
And yet his attackers can't come up with even one legislative accomplishment - one deed that's saved lives or improved the lives of anyone really - something that they can point to and say THAT is what makes me admire BHO so much.
