CNN's Soledad O'Brien Critical of Bill Clinton

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By Ken Shepherd (Bio | Archive)
December 1, 2006 - 12:23 ET
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His tax hikes? Nope, try again. His lying under oath? Nope, try again. His failure to capture Osama bin Laden? Nah. Try not spending enough of our tax money to fight AIDS.

Oh, and the icing on the cake is she had time to play a little softball with Sen. Obama.

Story here.

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“President Bush has committed $15 billion over 5 years to the fight against HIV/AIDS globally,” O’Brien noted, lamenting that during Clinton’s watch, “the Congress was much less willing to pony up” the money. “Do you look back now and say, if only we put the cash in early, we could have made a big difference,” the CNN anchor pressed the former president, who appeared in a satellite interview taped November 30.


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I'll just bet that she's fire

December 1, 2006 - 13:08 ET by Free Stinker

I'll just bet that she's fired by the end of the year!

Worse, She will be relegated to covering the R Party

December 1, 2006 - 13:34 ET by PSPCpl

Naw, she will be given any assignment that will bring her into contact with conservatives and Republicans.  She will be contaminated beyond any effort to "re-educate" her.

"Equal and alike are not the same thing."

Since AIDS, and obesity for

December 1, 2006 - 15:12 ET by ckc1227

Since AIDS, and obesity for that matter, are already almost 100% preventable, we could committ a trillion dollars to the problem and it wouldn't matter.

Maybe if we remove the safety net (free drugs for treatment, etc) folks will begin to see the correlation between their actions and the results of those actions. Harsh, but effective.

ckc,...I AGREE....AGREE....AG

December 1, 2006 - 15:18 ET by bigtimer

ckc,

...I AGREE....AGREE....AGREE!

Priceless!

"Once the coffers of the federal government are opened to the public, there will be no shutting them again." - Grover Cleveland

...lamenting that during Clin

December 1, 2006 - 13:08 ET by aero

...lamenting that during Clinton's watch, "the Congress was much less willing to pony up" the money.

She didn't hit Clinton, she hit the Republican Congress for not throwing more money at the problem. Good for Newt and co. that they tried to keep the money hemorrhage under control.

Bush has committed  $15 bill

December 1, 2006 - 13:25 ET by mattm

Bush has committed  $15 billion?  Hmmmmmm, where was this story before the election?  Maybe the GOP would have benefitted from the good-will this fact might have generated....

But there's no such thing as a "liberal media", right?   Good God y'all!

Just goes to show that spendi

December 1, 2006 - 13:28 ET by aero

Just goes to show that spending like Democrats doesn't make Democrats like Republicans any better. Nor the MSM. And definitely not conservative voters.

That's true.  But there's al

December 1, 2006 - 13:41 ET by mattm

That's true.  But there's also a difference to be noted here.  Repulicans do things, whether well-advised or not, based on the issue, not on the PR.  They need to blow their own horn on things like this, but they're reluctant to because they know the media will make them out to be phonies who are only seeking the PR benefits, not a real solution...so, they're stuck...

Sadly, too many voters rely on the MSM....  And too many RINO's fail to realize that no amount of liberal legislation is going to make the media love them as long as the (R) is next to their name. 

BTW:  I'm sure Bush wants AIDS to be eradicated.  I don't disagree with government money being used to achieve this end.  It would be a public good.  It would be nice if those on the Left would stop using it as a means of achieving stature, or receiving g government grant, or as a way to further some social agenda or another.

I understand your points. I j

December 1, 2006 - 14:00 ET by aero

I understand your points. I just don't think a government program, no matter how much money is pumped into it, is going to cure AIDS. Not at the rate it's still spreading in the third world. The solution will most likely come from research in the United States, not from our government buying drugs for everyone in the world who already has it. Education programs help, but not as much as we would like. Why isn't the government putting this much money into finding a cure for diabetes? What about obesity? Isn't obesity the new crisis/epidemic that's going to crush our healthcare system? Curing those diseases apparently don't garner as many warm fuzzies with the world.  We could pump an infinite amount of money into anything like this. There needs to be a cap, and people like Obama just want to pump more and more into it to make themselves look good with voters.

I hear you.As far as Osamabam

December 1, 2006 - 14:39 ET by mattm

I hear you.

As far as Osamabama pumping more money into it...see the post below for the fuzzy math (apparently, to Dems 1 billion a year is more than 3 billion a year. LOL!)

Mattm ..

December 1, 2006 - 13:37 ET by Gary Hall

As Live 8 organiser Bob Geldof said, " You'll think I'm off my trolley when I say this, but the Bush administration is the most radical, in a positive sense, in the approach to Africa since Kennedy." 

And Aids activist Lord Alli, said, "Clinton talked the talk and did diddly squat, whereas Bush doesn't talk, but does deliver."

Come on.. The Guardian printed it once. Washington Times printed it once. That should cover the media's collective butts.

Try out this contorted and painful (for the LA Times) lead editorial yesterday. Christian conservatives vs. Aids. "Oh Lordy, now since the election is over (and the 2004 election) how do we break the news to the voters? Oh, right let's make it sound like the bad guys forced the bad president to do a "sort of" good thing .. that sort of thing that makes him a world leader."

 

Obama's math just a bit off?

December 1, 2006 - 13:29 ET by Gary Hall

Obama's math just a bit off?

Ken. You noted (from O'Brian's bit):

We spoke earlier in the week about the government’s role and whether President Bush’s emergency plan for AIDS relief, which is called PEPFAR goes far enough with its $15 billion commitment,” O’Brien said as she set up the interview.

 Obama lauded Bush’s spending initiative but insisted it wasn’t enough. “I would like to see increased funding” to the tune of “a billion dollars a year,” he suggested.

Let's see now. Bush is spending $3 billion a year. Obama would like to "increase" funding to $1 billion a year.

Wow! No wonder Obama is a rising star in the Democratic (MSM) party.

Great pick-up Gary.A billio

December 1, 2006 - 13:35 ET by Jack Bauer

Great pick-up Gary.

A billion here, a billion there. Pretty soon you're talking real money, as some rich dude once said.

And why not?

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CNN's Soledad O'Brien Criti

December 1, 2006 - 13:31 ET by Jack Bauer

CNN's Soledad O'Brien Critical of Bill Clinton

Oh wow -- that's radical out there thinking!

Better 10 years late than never.

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Oliver and Hardy

December 1, 2006 - 13:37 ET by misterbill

Oliver and Hardy

A famous line of this old time comedy duo comes to mind. "Now look what you've done!" Do you think it is remotely possible that a few MSM folks are looking at what they caused and regretting it?