Friday, October 05, 2007

Jenna Bush's focus is children's welfare & their economic wellbeing

It's late and I don't have time to comment here but I needed to post this excerpt by Dana Goldstein, The American Prospect, just because I need to.

"As her father threatens to veto the entire $34 billion 2008 foreign aid budget just because congressional Democrats have finally snuck in loopholes providing condoms and abortion services to women in the developing world, Jenna is on a nationwide book tour and media blitz, spreading the message that safe sex and education are some of the most important tools in fighting disease....

"...Jenna Bush has enjoyed every privilege money can buy, from a prep school education to summer poetry classes in Prague, where her teacher's mantra was, "Become engaged with the lives of the impoverished and find poetry there....

"...Jenna has written a book advocating a practical, social justice stance toward the problems of poverty, AIDS, child abuse, sexual abuse, and teenage motherhood in Latin America."
Read the commentary by Goldstein

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