Comments on: SOTU: Abstinence Policies Hamper AIDS Efforts

By: Miket

Miket — Sun, 03 Feb 2008 12:18:24 +0000

Bush and the US put up more money for AIDS than all countries combined on earth. Doesn’t that mean anything to you wacko libs? Plus AIDS is NOT a leading killer of people in America and therefore we should focus on heart disease and cancer. More people die from heart disease in America in a week than do from AIDS all year. Most seem to forget such facts. And I’m sick and tired of all the LIBS who complain about “not enough spending overseas”. Not our problem. And yes…abstinance should be put forth as a solution because if you say that doesn’t work then you say we are a bunch of animals with no control over our actions. It is OK to be moral and have restraint(unlike Bill Clinton). The world is damn lucky they have President Bush dishing out endless money. Do we see Libs demanding that Canada, France, Iran, or any other country give more? Oh yeah…I forgot…AIDS doesn’t exist in Iran because they say so. That kind of thinking gets a pass. Wake up.
Mike
http://mtaricani.blogspot.com/

By: Elizabeth Pisani

Elizabeth Pisani — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 17:29:22 +0000

I’m afraid you’re missing some other gems that the administration has thrown up in the way of effective HIV prevention.

They include the Loyalty Oath, which undermines prevention in the commercial sex trade, for which the United States is not exactly a role model (see Shame on America’s Johns ). Another gem is the prohibition on spending money on clean needles for injectors. We’ll give expensive, US-made pharmaceuticals to people once they are infected, but we won’t stop them getting infected in the first place. Go figure.

It’s easy (and quite correct) to bash the Bush administration for this folly. But remember that the law that authorised this spending was passed by a congress that contained an awful lot of Democratic congressfolks.

By: crescentdave

crescentdave — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 20:41:12 +0000

I call you on the so-called 80% approval rating of the SOTUS and raise you: a NATIONAL poll on what Americans think of Bush and the country: http://www.harrisinteractive.com/harris_poll/. It’s title? “State of the Union Rated Poorly by 4 out of 5 Americans” Oh, in case you didn’t do the math: that’s 80 percent of Americans, nationally, who think the state of the union is doing poorly under bush.

By: Doc Rock

Doc Rock — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 12:15:40 +0000

A shame H.W. didn’t use a condom!

By: loretta

loretta — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 11:50:15 +0000

It was interesting to me that the amount of money he wants to corral for this program is the same amount that Congress asked for for SCHIP–and Bush promptly used his VETO pen.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:27:12 +0000

“principles that have changed behavior and made this program a success.â€ Hmm is that new rhetoric for civilizing the savages. That’s all they needed those Africans simply didn’t have any morals thats why they were having sex and spreading HIV. Silly me I thought it was the millions of women that were forcibly raped. This policy is simply an extension of his failed domestic policies in the high schools. Would somebody please make this President take a damn geography, sociology, man even a sex education class and get a clue about how the world works. Looking at the world without judgement and contempt but empathy and understanding.

By: Sabyen91

Sabyen91 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:47:54 +0000

Don’t we spend that in a week in Iraq?

By: Sabyen91

Sabyen91 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:38:19 +0000

30 billion. How generous.

By: Pete Witzler

Pete Witzler — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:29:21 +0000

Not only is this policy based on failed Abstinence only programs, the $30 Billion he proposes is not nearly enough. The $30 billion would significantly slow prevention efforts and would only treat 100,000 new people per year out of the millions who are desperately waiting for treatment.
Physicians for Human Rights is calling for $59 billion, for AIDS, tuberculosis, malaria, nutrition, and other programs to improve global health.

By: Sabyen91

Sabyen91 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 04:00:03 +0000

“Please, Bush didnâ€™t care about the black population in New Orleans, now he wants us to believe that he cares about the black population in Africa.

Comment by SamR â€” January 28, 2008 @ 10:08 pm”

How…un-American.

By: 99Luf Balloons

99Luf Balloons — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:10:08 +0000

Whitehouse IS TAKING CALLS NOW.
1-202-456-1111

By: SamR

SamR — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:08:10 +0000

Please, Bush didn’t care about the black population in New Orleans, now he wants us to believe that he cares about the black population in Africa.

By: 99Luf Balloons

99Luf Balloons — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 03:02:00 +0000

The 3 words I want the next Prez to say as his/her first words after being sowrn in…
ARREST THESE MEN.