Mr. Live Aid Blasts the EU and Praises Bush

Mr. Live Aid Blasts the EU and Praises Bush Bob Geldof, former front man for the Boomtown Rats and founder of the Live Aid program in the 1980s, came out swinging against the EU. "You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical - in a positive sense - in its approach to Africa since Kennedy," Geldof told the Guardian. Former president Bill Clinton had not helped Africa much, despite his high-profile visits and apparent empathy with the downtrodden, the organiser of Live Aid, claimed. "Clinton was a good guy, but he did fuck all." "The EU have been pathetic and appalling, and I thought we had dealt with that 20 years ago when the electorate of our countries said never again," he said. Warning that the "horror of the 80s" could return, he added: "The last time I spoke to the EU's aid people, they didn't even know where their own ships were. The food is there, get it here." "Their grotesque inability to respond in a full, adequate manner is responsible for the food shortages here," he said. Some 14 million people, or one in five of the population, are facing starvation in the country and the aid bill is estimated at more than £500 million. On the other hand, he praises Pres. Bush, something you don't often hear from liberal activists. Lord Alli, the aid activist who is accompanying Geldof on the trip organised by the UN children's aid agency Unicef, echoed his praise of the Bush administration. "Clinton talked the talk and did diddly squat, whereas Bush doesn't talk, but does deliver," Lord Alli said. Article Here