GERE TAKES ON BILL (Richard Gere says Bush has done more for Aids than Clinton!)

NY Daily News ^ | 2/5/03

[areafiftyone]

Gere takes on Bill

Richard Gere stunned fellow liberals Monday by suggesting that President Bush is doing a better job of fighting AIDS than President Bill Clinton did.

Introduced by Sharon Stone at a fund-raiser at Cipriani 42nd Street for the American Foundation for AIDS Research, the "Chicago" star hailed Bush for his State of the Union proposal to contribute $15 billion toward the AIDS battle in Africa and the Caribbean. Gere then addressed the track record of Bush's predecessor in the White House.

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

By that point, Sen. Clinton, who joined Mayor Bloomberg and honorees Anna Wintour and Lorne Michaels at the event, had left the restaurant. But a spokeswoman for the senator said yesterday that Gere's claim was "simply not true. The Clinton administration increased funding for AIDS research, prevention and treatment by over 400% and tripled funding for international AIDS programs."

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s.

"I think he was a double," the author of "No One Left to Lie To" claims in the latest issue of the conservative quarterly Doublethink. "Somebody was giving information to [the CIA] about the antiwar draft resisters, and I think it was probably him."

Clinton's spokesman Jim Kennedy declined to comment on Hitchens' spy story.

[Kip Lange]

Strange days indeed.

[Stew Padasso]

Not a ringing endorsement for conservatism but anything to bash Clinton is appreciated.

[areafiftyone]

Hey it goes to prove that the liberal so-called "I feel your pain" ex-BlowJob in Chief is finally getting his comeuppance! Pardon my French!

[Constitution Day]

"I'm sorry, Sen. [Hillary] Clinton, but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years," Gere said.

Shocking news from the Axis of Gerbils™!!

[areafiftyone]

I know - first the Washington Post and now Richard Gere - Did I really wake up this morning or am I still in bed?

[finnman69]

Holy LW Bat-erang Batman!

[hobbes1]

I just looked out my Window, and saw it was raining Frogs....

[meandog]

Meanwhile, veteran Clinton-basher Christopher Hitchens is suggesting that the former President was a CIA informant at Oxford University, where the two were students in the late 1960s

Hey Chris, I generally like your reporting, but...imagining Beelzebubba a CIA informant is like imagining Der Fueher as a member of B'nai B'rith. Beelzebubba was more likely an informant for KGB or GDR!

[Guenevere]

#6....probably an alternate universe...:)

[areafiftyone]

LOL - I kinda find that hard to believe too. It makes for intersting reading though!

[syriacus]

"I think he was a double,"

Is "double" a synonym for "counterspy"?

I'd hate to think there's yet another Clinton out there.

[xsmommy]

Axis of Gerbils™!!

LOL!!!

[FeliciaCat]

I believe Gere is basically left-wing, but not in a rabid partisan sort of way. He is way into the Tibet/Buddah thing and I have always felt that his public statements on world events (while "out there") were spoken from the heart and his true convictions. Just my two cents.

[areafiftyone]

HEY - That's it!! I'm in the TWILIGHT ZONE!!!

[tractorman]

Hey! Clinton's done a lot for AIDS. He's done an stupendous job of promoting sexual promiscuity.

[battlegearboat]

Mayonaise Buddhist barbs Bill's hillhole as stuttering Stone shudders shamelessly.

[eastsider]

[riri]

but your husband did nothing about AIDS for eight years

Alas he did alot of that but as Ross Perot said "Along comes the luckiest man in the world" referring to inheriting a good economy.

But MUCH MORE IMPORTANTLY let's not forget he did nothing about Iraq for 8 years either. I recently read the official motto of the Clinton state department re: Iraq was "Don't give us sweatly palms" meaning don't give us anything that might cause a crisis.

[txzman]

As a Christian all I can think is that Bush's forthright stance on issues, and his clear dependence on God, is making arguments that many Liberals can no longer deny.

As a previous poster said, Strange Days Indeed.