Posted on 10/27/2007 9:10:29 AM PDT by UB355
Any other person would have been lauded like Mother Teresa. Her father has an “R” next to his name, so obviously her work with AIDS victims in other countries is some imperialist plot. Just ask Randi Rhodes.
Have we seen any stories about AL Gore’s daughters or Chelsea Clinton or Amy Carter that have described them as “privileged?” I’ll have to go do a Lexis search on that one later.
Hasn’t the US given more money for AIDS relief under President Bush than under any other president?
(Did I dream this, or am I remembering correctly?)
Yeah, I caught that too. Also “to the surprise of some” Jenna decided to be a teacher and help people.
Geesh.
Of course the reviewer lied
http://www.avert.org/pepfar.htm
How much money has President Bush requested for PEPFAR so far and how much has been enacted?
In FY 2004, President Bush requested $1.9 billion for combating global HIV/AIDS, TB and Malaria, suggesting that the $3 billion was an average and that the annual expenditure would be increased over the five-year period. Congress increased President Bush’s figure by $500 million, and in January 2004 appropriated $2.4 billion for HIV/AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria for FY 2004, which ended on 30th September 2004. Of this total, $850 million was “new” money.5
The total budget for global HIV and AIDS in FY 2005 was $2.7 billion, of which $2.6 billion was enacted. Within this amount, $1.37 billion was for the U.S. Global Coordinator’s Office, and $347 was for the Global Fund.6
In FY 2006, President Bush requested, and Congress appropriated, approximately $3.2 billion.7
For FY 2007, Congress approved funding of $4.5 billion for HIV, tuberculosis and malaria including $724 million for the Global Fund. The total amount was $500 million more than President Bush had requested.8
President Bush has requested $5.4 billion for FY 2008, which would bring total spending over the five-year period to more than $18 billion (20% more than originally planned).9
She should apply for a job at CBS News. That's the kind of thing they're looking for. (Sorry about the multiple posts.)
I don’t think the reviewer “slipped”.
She's not a supporter but now she actually likes him, in a neighborly way. Jenna's a very nice girl and genuinely interested in humanitarian pursuits, according to that branch of my family.
You are correct (unfortunately).
Bush Derangement Syndrome is without limit in scope and symptoms. Although pinched face and overflowing bile is most common.
A total lie. She has to tie herself verbally in knots to spin the administration's opposition to abortion as "curtail[ing] support of certain international programs aimed at reducing the spread of AIDS and other diseases." Opposing NGOs that push abortion as a form of birth control has NOTHING to do with AIDS.
Sickening.
Can’t be true. Everybody knows that Jenna is just a party girl living off the family name with no brains, no compassion and no direction. And we all know that President Bush has slashed all spending on aids despite what hard right conservatives like Bono and Geldorf try and claim.
If you polled most Americans, they would say Jenna Bush would be more likely to turn up in bar downing shots of Tequilla than in Latin America helping aids patients. I wonder where they would get such an idea?
Send these statistics directly to the reviewer at her email address above, and remind her of why Bono is a friend of the President’s, not a detractor. Make sure she knows we ALL know she lied!
These reporters are disgusting. Bush lives very modestly in an environmentally friendly house. This is known as a "spread". The Maine house is her grandfather's. What does that have to do with anything?
How does the reporter define "routine jetting"? Would that be more or less jetting than the Kerrys, Edwards, Kennedys, Clintons et al do?
Time to hurl.
Only those eager to be offended will see this as anything but a reasonable and laudatory piece on Jenna Bush.
Those who don’t need to consider whether their partisan victimhood has totally clouded their judgement.
“The media are mean, wah, wah, wah!” is getting old.
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