Georgia Senator Johnny Isakson, a member of the Senate subcommittee on Africa, is visiting the troubled Dafur region of Sudan. I am still surprised that Isakson is one of the most conservative members of the Senate yet serves with a cool listening ear and compassion mindset rather than the vibe of some of his colleagues. And people wonder which leader the GOP should model the next generation of policy makers after.
I hope he comes back with the idea of getting more peanut-based food paste from Georgia and dry pasta to help than staving region in the short-term while get a market opportunity for our farmers and producers. In the long-term, exporting farming techniques and equipment developed at Fort Valley State and U.G.A. to that suffering part of the world could assist in our antiterrorism efforts—bread rather than bullets. But, we still have the bullets—don’t sleep on the eagle with the olive branch in one talon and the arrows in the other.
Isakson should be briefing Agriculture Secretary Sanford Bishop about the opportunities for southern agriculture to help heal the world while creating jobs here but the Obama White House passed on Georgia. (For those who thing the current president won’t be criticized by moderates or African American would not condemn African genocide and support of terrorism.)
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/printedition/2009/05/27/isakson0527.html
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Too many on my side equate “conservatism” with running to microphones to scream about what government shouldn’t be doing, and then doing nothing, instead of making sure what government does, it does well, while still in compliance with the ideals of “limited government”.
Isakson has my respect and support because he shuns cameras for rolling up his sleeves and working for real solutions to real problems.
We have too many “conservatives” who rail against manufactured problems without real solutions. We need more real people solving real problems like Isakson.
Icarus: The thing people forget about Isakson is that he came up in state government when the Democrats ran the capitol so he is accustom to negotiating toward solutions rather than being flat arrogant.
When we were school kids interested in government coming to Atlanta with Y-Club or 4-H, Isakson was the only Republican we every met or wanted to meet.