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.

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[FeliciaCat]

I am not endorsing his views, and yes I watched his speech after 9/11 at the benefit. He was boo'd because he was silly enough to voice his personal views at an event where everyone there was still very raw and rightfully so. I still dont think he is in the same league as Streisand/Baldwin/Sarandan. And I am THINKING with my big head thank you very much.

[Puddleglum]

PS - I think even some liberals are tired of being subjected to the Clinton bullying and intimidation. Tickling at the back of their memories is some idea of free speech they still love, I think...

[Centurion2000]

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

After seeing this plus the reading the Washington comPOST embrace Bush's policy on Iraq ..... maybe we both are.

[JohnGalt]

It [Clinton and the CIA at Oxford] was covered rather convincingly in Roger Morris's Partners in Power. Rather makes sense that CIA knew which Southern governor to turn to when they were interested in finding a state with a secluded air strip to fly guns out of, no?

[rintense]

Yep, hell must be getting pretty chilly...

The Washington Post endorses the Bush Doctrine...

Gere favors Dubya over Clinton...

And the Lions hire a great coach.

Yep, hell must be around 32 degrees right now.

[areafiftyone]

Most of Hollywierd won't turn on Clinton that quickly. Hollywierd will endorse their Democratic Candidate in 2004 - you can be sure of that! It won't be Lieberman because he flipflopped on them. It will be Kerry or Dean. Don't forget Bubba and the Hildebeast will be at the Democratic convention in Boston with the Hollywierd crowd in tow licking their boots! Hollyweird is too much in love with the Clintons.

[hobbes1]

Lighten up Pharaoh

[areafiftyone]

Hopefully Powell's presentation to the U.N. will make it complete! I am gloating a little too much today - I gotta stop - but I don't want to - Heh Heh!!

[JohnGalt]

Ambrose Evans Pritchard 3/1996 on Morris allegation:

http://www.assumption.edu/WebVax/ETnew/wclin09Jun96.html

[mykdsmom]

Axis of Gerbils™!!

ROFLMAO...

MKM

[Blood of Tyrants]

First the Washington Posts endorses Bush on Iraq. Then it endorses Estrada for a federal judgeship saying that he was well qualified. And now a Hollyweird liberal admits that a CONSERVATIVE actually did more for a liberal cause than the liberals!

Whoa! I gotta sit down. Head between knees --- breathe deeply.

Okay -- I'm okay, but please make the world stop spinning!

[TontoKowalski]

Regarding the AIDS program itself (aside from Gere's comments), I'm of two minds on this.

You can't dispute that there's a crying need for help in Africa. But if this $15B is going to be administered through the UN, then I'm against it.

I say this because, immediately after the SOTU, Kofi Annan was in the press just giddy at the prospect of $15B.

The project is noble, but doing it through the UN is throwing money down a rathole. Other than Annan's comments, I don't have any evidence that this will be a UN project, so I guess this is a preemptive rant.

[PISANO]

I have great respect for the POTUS and his wartime leadership and I believe he has one central component that most others in that office never had and that is HONOR.

However, I don't neccessarily think that because Gere praises GW for aids research and Dennis Miller likes his school voucher program, or even that Hitchens DISDAIN of the Clintons means we are winning new conservatives to our side. What it means is that GW is moving LEFT.

[twyn1]

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

I'm thinking you meant this to be a "funny" statement, but when you really think about the truth behind what you've posted, it's sad -- have you heard what the middle school kids say about casual (group) oral sex now -- it's not REALLY sex, Pres. Clinton said so (as heard on Oprah)

[SupplySider]

Axis of Gerbils™

Ahhh ha ha. But is there satellite evidence of gerbils entering and leaving in violation of sanctions?

[carlo3b]

Beelzebubba was more likely an informant for KGB or GDR!

I think thats what he was trying to say...calling Slick a DOUBLE!

[sharktrager]

I disagree withe Gere's poitics, but I must say I admire his honesty and the strength of his beliefs.

His speech at the Concert for New York shows that he is willing to stand up for what he believes, even when he knows that his stance will be very unpopular.

[LandofLincoln]

You are wrong on this response. Go study how a basket is made.

[areafiftyone]

Yea but Bush always claimed to be a compassionate conservative. He is showing that he is not a lier by hitting these issues! No matter how much we hate these issues - they won't go away and Bush knows that. He is trumping Clinton BIG TIME!