Last month rallies were held nationwide to end the genocide in Darfur. Every decent human being on the planet wants to see an end to the holocaust occurring in the Sudan. As always, ignoring the problem and politics has taken precedent instead of a real world solution.

In Chicago Congressional lawmakers including Jan Schawkowsky (D—IL) and Danny Davis (D—IL) addressed the crowd calling for the murders in Darfur to stop. Neither of them offered any solutions to the crisis. Like every rally in America featuring leftist speakers, the crowd held signs and made statements criticizing the Bush administration for not doing anything. The fact that President Bush is the only world leader to characterize the tragedy in the Sudan as genocide is completely ignored by a crowd who view hating Bush a priority over saving lives.

The rally in Washington D.C. was similar to the rally in Chicago on a larger scale. Rabbi David Saperstein of the Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism addressing the crowd on the National Mall raised