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?)
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.
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.
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.
Someone correct me if I am wrong, but isn't the "little place up in Maine" which actually belongs to Bush I much larger than the Crawford "Texas spread"