[Dems2008] Re: Moderates considering McCain?

Agree: politicians should avoid hyperbole, e.g. "most" - never works.
Seventy-one percent (71%) of women in this world are living in poverty,
i.e., earnings less than $2 per-day; Africa's life expectancy in several
countries has been cut almost IN HALF (you can look it up) due to AIDs;
here at home we have millions of children going to bed at night with bad
teeth and no food.

Wife and I spent Christmas with our Peace Corps daughter, and on one of
the saddest Christmas Eves of my life, we helped serve meals to 45
poor children in a small village whose only real access to a hot meal
is thru the efforts of a 77 yr old retired teacher who gives all her
money to feeding these kids twice a day, every day for the last 30
years. Their suffering cannot be measured, and I suggest it is not
equaled anywhere in this world.

Suffering is a worldwide phenomenon of enormous proportions, not open
to easy generalizations.

--- In Dems2008@yahoogroups.com, Rob Harrington <Eamon1916@...> wrote:
>
> He said about a year ago: "Nobody is suffering more than the
Palestinian people..." I think a VAST majority of the Palestinian people
are suffering... caught in the crossfire between the militant groups and
the Israelis. Are they the most suffering on Earth? I don't think so,
but suffering is suffering.
>
> Slainte,
> Rob Harrington
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----
> From: nancy m gibson nmgibson@...
> To: Dems2008@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Tuesday, February 19, 2008 4:57:45 PM
> Subject: Re: [Dems2008] Moderates considering McCain?
>
>
> I read on another list that Obama said that the Palestinian people are
the
> most
> oppressed people in the world? I myself did not hear Obama say this
> but am
> curious if he actually said it. Anyone on this list hear him say
> that.---Or
> words to that effect.----Nan
>
> HISTORY TEACHES US THAT MEN AND NATIONS
> BEHAVE WISELY ONCE THEY HAVE EXHAUSTED
> ALL OTHER ALTERNATIVES
> Abba Eban
>

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