You lie, a true blue conservative like GWB would do a photo-op with Obama??? never !!
Posted on 07/03/2013 9:01:48 PM PDT by chessplayer
George W. Bush isn’t a man to gloat. If we were, his message to Africans, as he visits the continent at the same time as President Obama, would be: “Miss me yet?”
The answer, according to the Washington Post, is a resounding “yes.” Consider this passage from the Post’s story “Bush AIDS policies shadow Obama in Africa”:
[A]cross this continent, many Africans wish Obama was more like Bush in his social and health policies, particularly in the fight against HIV/AIDS — one of the former president’s signature foreign policy aid programs. Bush poured billions of dollars into the effort to combat the spread of the disease that once threatened to consume a generation of young Africans, and as Obama has spent two days touring South Africa, the shadow of his predecessor has trailed him.
Obama’s words have carried him far in America. But on matters of life and death, actions speak much louder than even Obama’s words. In South Africa, Bush’s actions helped reduce the HIV infection rate by 30 percent and put nearly 2 million people on antiretroviral drugs.
Obama, by contrast, produced a budget last year that reduces AIDS funding globally by roughly $214 million, the first time an American president has reduced the U.S. commitment to fighting the epidemic. He has proposed additional cuts for 2014.
Hillary Thulare of the AIDS Healthcare Foundation summarized the situation this way:
Knowing that Africa has many challenges, with fighting AIDS being one of the biggest challenges, we were really expecting President Obama to continue where President Bush had left off. But it’s been a disappointment. Obama is retreating on AIDS and, by this, retreating on Africa.
So, yes, they miss Bush in Africa. And all of Obama’s efforts to bask in the glory of Nelson Mandela won’t change this.
You were a few minutes early, enjoy :#19
And George P. and Jebby. And Rove, Cheney, Cheney’s lesbian daughter, Cheney’s lesbian’s daughter’s girlfriend, John Roberts and his biggest legacy, Barack H. Obama. One way ticket to Kinshasa for the lot of them.
Bingo. The dumb loser wasn’t content to waste money and lives in Iraq - spent millions on Africa to combat aids. Using OUR tax dollars as his personal charity trove.
Yeah, President George W. Bush, was being deeply loved and respected in that shot. Good choice. I like all the white folks on the perimeter. Kinda like minders, for a political photo op. No?
You lie, a true blue conservative like GWB would do a photo-op with Obama??? never !!
Let’s see, Obama thinks Africans should get AIDS, not have Cars and forego Air Conditioning to save the Planet. Got it.
Just look at that Creepy Ass Cracka sitting with all those Black Folks that he and his Republican buddies hate.
Who does he think he is anyway, a former President? LOL
Carter looks outnumbered in that photo.
Obama looks outnumbered in yours (2 white, 1 brown) :)
Bush joining a Democrat social gathering w two Dems Carter and Obama.
The other was Carter joining three Rs : Reagan, Ford, and Nixon.
This one is heartwarming
When you post a picture of Reagan hugging Obama (that’s real) I am going to freak out!
My point was that Presidents always pose with other Presidents — nothing new. But I don’t remember Reagan hugging Carter.
Great article. I think the 2016 third party candidate should focus on something like this. It is not what a man says out loud and in front of the cameras, it is what he does with little prompting. Of course our Constitutional Republic has reached a point where it is failing and we have mob rule, but this is a great reminder. The Emperor has no clothes.
True, but Obama HAS increased funding to Al Qaeda, something Bush DID NOT do.
They just miss the money he confiscated from us and sent there.
Bingo. Bush is a grand humanitarian at taxpayer expense.
According to Bono,Bush save 5 million lives there.
So of course Obama goes and tells them Gays should be allowed to marry,great make aids spread as one more,what an ass
“Bush poured billions of dollars into the effort to combat the spread of the disease”
Yeah, it came out of his own pocket.
Everywhere this clown went, he was “pledging” billions here and billions there. Foreign welfare, domestic boondoggles, it didn’t matter, just so long as he was spending our money. Billions for African AIDs, but he couldn’t seem to find the money to close our southern border.
He can stay in Africa as far as I am concerned.
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