{"id":193,"date":"2007-09-13T12:42:36","date_gmt":"2007-09-13T17:42:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/09\/13\/frist-is-not-the-senator-from-mat"},"modified":"2007-09-13T12:42:36","modified_gmt":"2007-09-13T17:42:36","slug":"frist-is-not-the-senator-from-matobo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/2007\/09\/13\/frist-is-not-the-senator-from-matobo\/","title":{"rendered":"Frist is not the Senator from Matobo*&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Frist is back in the news this past week for his laudable involvement in Save the Children.&nbsp; Save the Children has joined a new One initiative calling for an increase in US foreign aid for mothers and children of low-income countries.&nbsp; Laudable certainly but a bit disappointing too when I read this in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/07\/world\/07children.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">NYTimes<\/a> [Sept 7, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2007\/09\/07\/world\/07children.html?_r=1&amp;oref=slogin\">Ex-Senator to Lead Global Drive on Children&#8217;s Health<\/a>&#8220;]&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>Save the Children hopes Mr. Frist will open doors, and it is still in the process of recruiting senior Democratic leaders, to make its appeal bipartisan.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p>\u201cThe children and mothers who die are in huts beyond the end of pathways with no direct access to political or<br \/>media leaders,\u201d Mr. MacCormack said. \u201cWe need people who can walk into prime ministers\u2019 and presidents\u2019 offices.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The children and mothers&nbsp;live in countries whose leaders are clearly failing them.&nbsp; Their leadership, not ours alone, should be plying the wide halls of prime ministers and the fine offices of presidents.&nbsp; I work in East Africa and still remember clearly the local constituent outrage over Uganda&#8217;s very public problems with the Global Fund.&nbsp; Taxpaying Ugandans, as citizens anywhere, demand performance and accountability from government.&nbsp; More of that grassroots, old fashioned constituent involvement is needed if external efforts are to have any lasting impact.<\/p>\n<p><i>*Matobo was the fictional African country in The Interpreter. <\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senator Frist is back in the news this past week for his laudable involvement in Save the Children.&nbsp; Save the Children has joined a new One initiative calling for an increase in US foreign aid for mothers and children of low-income countries.&nbsp; Laudable certainly but a bit disappointing too when I read this in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":712,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/712"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/politicshiv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}