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GERE TAKES ON BILL (Richard Gere says Bush has done more for Aids than Clinton!)
NY Daily News ^ | 2/5/03

Posted on 02/05/2003 6:34:19 AM PST by 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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To: Hildy
Surfing the web and came up with this little treasure from Aids Action: Clinton Underfunds Prevention in 2001 Budget

Looking for some more.

141 posted on 02/05/2003 1:41:22 PM PST by areafiftyone (The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
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To: Hildy
Also another interesting one Advisory Panel Faults Clinton AIDS Leadership
142 posted on 02/05/2003 1:46:14 PM PST by areafiftyone (The U.N. is now officially irrelevant! The building is for Sale!!!)
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To: Poohbah
Hey, Poobah; long time no hear. 'Bout time someone with half-a-brain told the truth about BJ.
143 posted on 02/05/2003 3:53:58 PM PST by katze
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To: Poohbah
>This might explain the flying pigs I just saw out my window...


144 posted on 02/05/2003 3:57:13 PM PST by theFIRMbss
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To: Hildy
Yes, she really said that. I know. I couldn't believe it either. She did say that she doesn't agree with President Bush's policies but that shouldn't surprise us.

Sometimes CNN shows a repeat of Larry King (with a celebrity) on the weekend, Saturday or Sunday. They will probably repeat it later this month, unless we are at war. Then you know it will be war 24 hours a day.

145 posted on 02/05/2003 6:45:20 PM PST by BlueAngel
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To: Paul Atreides
You maybe right. In an e-mail conversation with an extremely liberal minister, he said today that he had forgiven clinton but had been very disappointed that he had not stepped down. I distinctly remember this same man gloated from the pulpit when clinton was not removed from office, so I think his memory is a little cloudy. That sermon was the beginning of the end for me & that church.
146 posted on 02/05/2003 6:57:47 PM PST by Ditter
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To: Wil H
Great minds...:-)
147 posted on 02/05/2003 9:46:53 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Chi-townChief
Too bad Hilliary had already left the room.
148 posted on 02/05/2003 9:49:47 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: Hildy
I also heard Elizabeth Taylor say this on Larry King. She was adamant that Bush was doing much more for AIDS than Clinton ever did. I also believe that I heard her say that Clinton did NOTHING for AIDS the entire time that he was President. I was surprised how strongly she stated this I think that Larry King was surprised also.
149 posted on 02/05/2003 9:58:20 PM PST by Irish Eyes
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To: DoughtyOne
Well, you are entitled to your opinions. I am entitled to mine, Camille Paglia is entitled to hers, and Richard Gere is entitled to his.

You are in good company in criticising Richard Gere: see this posting:

Senator Dodd: RICHARD GERE IS A JERK for his comments on Bill Clinton and AIDS

I tend to look at the PRICE someone pays for their opinion, and Richard Gere has the character to buck both the Left, with which he agrees part (or even most) of the time, and the right, with which he agrees part of the time, resulting in both sides attacking him.

I do not by any means agree with Richard Gere on most things but none-the-less admire him more than knee-jerk LIBERALS, or KNEE-JERK CONSERVATIVES.

150 posted on 02/07/2003 6:20:44 AM PST by chilepepper
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To: areafiftyone
btt
151 posted on 02/07/2003 7:47:04 AM PST by Happy2BMe (It's All About You - It's All About Me - It's All About Being Free!)
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To: areafiftyone
The Clinton administration increased funding for AIDS research, prevention and treatment by over 400% and tripled funding for international AIDS programs."

Should be easy enough to check.

152 posted on 04/17/2003 9:12:00 AM PDT by hattend
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