Let's set the record straight.

Gupta took to CNN to give legitimacy to claims of how throughout his presidency “many would accuse President Reagan of ignoring AIDS.”

If someone in the media wants to attack a president over the issue of doing something about HIV/Aids, then let's leave Reagan out of it. Brent Baker has set the record straight there.

Besides - at the time, aids was a new issue, few were talking about it, few understood it and it was not a recognized crisis at the time.

On the other hand, by the time Bill Clinton became President, not only was it well understood, but he was perceived, by the "elitists" as the man with the vision. Yes, Bill Clinton, as president, would lead on the issue of addressing world Aids.

OK, everyone laugh out loud together now.

It was the all-knowing President Bill Clinton who turned his back on a developing world HIV/Aids Pandemic and ignored the Aids crisis - not Reagan. His constituents, the left wing media know that all too well - but have conspired to keep it from the public; instead, preferring to blame Ronald Reagan for all - and to do in at every opportunity, for all eternity.

It was President George Bush who would step up to the plate and propose and announce, then get passed, almost unanimously, thru the congress of the United States the largest and most successful effort in the history of the world in combating this dreaded disease in the 3rd world. And the media? They would continue to give a pass on the Clinton record, continue to pile the fault on a long gone President Reagan, yet find a new angle at each and every opportunity to somehow fault President Bush for his bold and successful leadership.

Let the record reflect the  widely accepted view of the left's David Corn, Washington editor of "The Nation" magazine. In Too little, too late - How many times is Bill Clinton going to apologize to Africa? Cat have the MSM's tongue?

When Clinton arrived at 1600 Pennsylvania, the U.S. government knew that an AIDS pandemic was coming in Africa. A 1991 classified study produced by the CIA predicted that by 2000 there would be 45 million people infected with AIDS virus, most in Africa. ... For the next seven years -- while Clinton was in office -- the budget for combating AIDS overseas remained flat.

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The prevailing view was, these people should die quietly.

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During the Clinton years, the Centers for Disease Control and the U.S. Agency for International Development opposed paying for AIDS tests overseas. "The argument was that testing was too expensive, and it led to things that were more expensive..

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For most of its time in office, Clinton’s administration devoted little attention or resources to AIDS in Africa. In fact, Vice President Al Gore sided with pharmaceutical manufacturers in bitterly opposing the efforts of the South African government to pass legislation that would allow it to obtain cheaper AIDS medicine for its citizens.

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A cynical guess at Clinton's motivations: AIDS in Africa, it doesn’t poll well. 

What is it with the entire national media, that when one of their trusted voices lays out a challenging view for them on their beloved Clinton legacy, that they all must, in some conspiracy-like trance, always immediately go out, in unison, and attack their most hated conservative - rather than simply reporting the news?

The man to attack here, is President Bill Clinton, not President Ronald Reagan.

Ronald Reagan was beginning to express concern about the dreaded disease, early on in it's march of suffering. Bill Clinton, being all too aware of it, and holding the desires of the electorate to address the problem, turned his back on it. Instead, he would focus on standing watch over a historic economic bubble fueled by greed and fraud; he would consider his personal sexual needs with a young unpaid volunteer - an intern - more important than the health and welfare of the citizens of the United States of America and of the world.

President Bush answered the call; proposed and planned for and utilized well spent and focused $billions of dollars to save a million, perhaps millions more, of lives in Africa and Indonesia. And not just aids, but Malaria as well.

And the world noticed - the US mainstream media, like the biased agenda driven nutcases at CNN didn't notice, but world leaders like the following noticed. From Oct., 2008:

Sir Bob Geldof (Humanitarian activist - and Live 8 organizer)".. a great adventure.. what America was born to do.. the sense that this is America at it's best.."

President Ellen Sirleaf Johnson, of Liberia (the first freely elected woman in Africa's history): "Under the leadership of President Bush [..] .. What a legacy, Mr. President..." "..America's commitment to democracy and development and to supporting low-income countries around the world has been a signature of foreign policy achievement for President Bush, Secretary Rice, the bipartisan support of the U.S. Congress, and the American people. .." 

 See - you feel good already - and it didn't take putting the MSM's man in the WH, did it?

(;~/ gary

I wonder if Gupta will be spreading the news that children abandoned by their parents (Obama) are more prone to suffer from mental illness, or if maybe he (and the Obama administration) will ignore that little fact.

D

Keep the ILLEGALS out, join NumbersUSA to send free faxes to your reps.

Obama is revealing a lot of superficiality here. What's he trying to tell us?

• Obama thinks the Surgeon General job is just a public relations job anyway.
• Few of his appointments show that he has a deep appreciation of the ins and outs of any department. He isn't picking insiders, because he doesn't know any.  
• Doesn't the democrat party have any non-Clinton talent?

Remember, Obama only has two years of real senate experience. That's not enough time to develop a relationship with committee witnesses or department officials, so he doesn't know who's doing what at any departments. Since he doesn't have that knowledge himself, he has to rely on others to give it to him ... and he apparently is relying on the old Clinton team.

...us in the slammer if we went outside of her hideous Health-Care-Plan-from-Hell and paid our doctor out of our own pockets?

This would be a really good chance for PEBO to demonstrate (or at leat try to make it at least look like) that "change" thingy wasn't the meaningless campaign drivel we all suspect it was:

Get rid of the position of Surgeon General, including the staff.

I'm not sure, but this meaningless "feel good" position may be as useless as the Department of Redundancy Department. 

Just think of the tax dollars that would be saved. 

-Dave

“Them that’s going get on the wagon. Them that ain’t get out of the way.” -Because enough is enough.

Um, Gupta is aware that The One smokes and has a history of cocaine use, right?   

"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me

He is a socialist who will want to impose HIS WILL on the American people. 

Mr. "KNOW-IT-ALL" in the Obama Administration is a very scary thing!

Mark my words......................

.. when I saw the name, I thought this was the guy from last years American Idol. Well.. it only stands to reason.

Bolton/KEYES 2012