Jim Hoft
GatewayPundit
10/30/2010
…This Was Wild—
He was campaigning for Blumenthal.
More… Chisum added:
Obama said: “We’re funding global AIDS and the other side is not!”
What? I thought it was our tax dollars? He deserves to be booed and ridiculed just for that statement!
See the complete post at GatewayPundit. At Weasel Zippers, Blamer-In-Chief Heckled By AIDS Activists: The lying thug can dish it out, but can never take it…
CAJ note: “the other side”? Who is the President referring to? The Republicans? Or? It’s taxpayer dollars that has been appropriated for AIDS funding, not the DNC’s. Not Barack Obama’s. We will refresh his memory with this article from USA Today, 31 May 2007:
Bono applauds president’s AIDS proposal
President Bush can count Bono as a fan.
The Grammy-winning rock star sang Bush’s praises Wednesday for his announcement that he would propose spending an additional $30 billion over five years to fight AIDS worldwide.
“Some of my activist friends will be jumping on one leg rather than jumping on two because it’s never enough and etc., etc.,” Bono said in a phone interview with USA TODAY from Fez, Morocco, where he’s recording with his band, U2. “But I’m standing up and I’m applauding the president and Congress.”…
And before that, from PEPFAR [emphasis CAJ]:
…In his State of the Union Address in January 2003, President George W. Bush made a commitment to substantially increase US support for addressing HIV/AIDS worldwide.
“I ask the Congress to commit $15 billion over the next five years, to turn the tide against AIDS in the most afflicted nations of Africa and the Caribbean” President George W. Bush
In May 2003, the US Congress approved, and President Bush signed into law, the “United States Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Act of 2003”. This legislation approved expenditure of up to $15 billion over 5 years and it provided the legal and policy framework for the expenditure.
The first “new” money of $350 million was made available by Congress in January 2004. Full implementation of PEPFAR began in June 2004.
PEPFAR was reauthorised for a further five years when President Bush signed the “Tom Lantos and Henry J Hyde United States Global Leadership Against HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria Reauthorization Act of 2008”, in July 2008. The act authorised up to $48 billion for PEPFAR for fiscal years (FY) 2009-2013. It was named in honour of two late congressmen, one Republican and one Democrat, who authored the original 2003 act.
Is this the total US Government expenditure on HIV/AIDS?
The sum of $48 billion is the proposed expenditure of the US Government for combating HIV/AIDS, malaria and tuberculosis outside of the US over the five-year period (2009-2013). The bulk of this money, $39 billion, is for HIV/AIDS, with $4 billion going towards tuberculosis, and $5 billion for tackling malaria. The act also doubled the US contribution to the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria to $2 billion yearly. This is in addition to domestic HIV/AIDS expenditure for which $18.2 billion was requested for FY 2009…
Read the rest at Averting HIV and AIDS
Update: Clinton Gets Heckled at Ohio Rally
Update 2: Power Line has this longer video–
At Power Line Scott Johnson wrote, “I can’t think of many circumstances under which it is appropriate for the president of the United States to encourage a bunch of boorish clowns to heckle anyone. These circumstances are certainly no exception.
“Who are the people “who aren’t interested in funding global Aids”? Is the implication that they are Obama’s political opponents? That’s the way it sounds to me, but I’m a little sensitive….
“…While the reputation of George Bush is snapping back, Barack Obama grows smaller by the minute.”
Update 3: Verum Serum has picked up the story, Obama Gets Heckled, Then Lies About Republican Support for Global AIDS Funding:
…to suggest, as Obama did at this rally, that Republicans haven’t been engaged on the issue or that they are the ones who should be protested for lack of attention to it, that goes beyond playing politics to inverting reality completely. The suggestion that Republicans are against efforts to fight Aids around the world is nothing less than a lie, and a particularly despicable one at that.
