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In Durango, Colorado, I met with Kathy Darnell who had just returned from a humanitarian aid mission to Uganda. She said the poverty there is unlike almost any form of poverty we have in the U.S. For instance, in the villages she visited in Uganda, many were afflicted with AIDs, and had little food, medicine. They live in huts and sleep on dirt floors, with burlap bags as their beds… At a Bible Study at Sacred Heart Church here later in the day, someone mentioned how “generous” Americans were to other countries. I said we often give out of our excess. Seldom do we really<\/em> sacrifice. For instance, I asked the group how many of them would consider selling their $200 or $300 beds, and sleep on, say, a Mother Theresa mat. Then, how many would send the balance to Uganda so the people there could have just the basics in food and medicine? The next day, I told reporter Jim Greenhill of The Durango Herald <\/em>that, “as president,” I would sell the big bed in the Lincoln bedroom, sleep on one of those mats in there, and send the savings to Uganda… In his article: Greenhill wrote: He’s (me) challenging the paradigm that a candidate must be either a donkey or elephant. (Although my wife Liz, at times, sees me as a donkey — or rather, the more slang expression for a donkey.) Note:<\/strong> Greenhill also noted that in our 75,000 miles of traveling, we haven’t campaigned in Hawaii yet. “It’s been hard trying to get an out board motor fitted on the back of the van,” he (me) quipped.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Durango, Colorado, I met with Kathy Darnell who had just returned from a humanitarian aid mission to Uganda. She said the poverty there is unlike almost any form of poverty we have in the U.S. For instance, in the …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-324","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=324"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=324"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=324"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/voteforjoeblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=324"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}