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Bush’s Effort To Combat AIDS In Africa Saved 1.1 Million Lives
A recently released study from Stanford University says that former President Bush’s PEPFAR (President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief) program in Africa saved more than 1.1 million lives, and cut the mortality rate of the disease by 10 percent.
PEPFAR is the most sweeping attempt at combating AIDS in Africa in human history. President Bush spent more money on fighting AIDS in Africa than any human being on earth.
Much to the chagrin of liberals, it wasn’t left-wing rock bands or benefit concerts that are saving the people of Africa, but their arch nemesis George W. Bush.
Someone should let Kanye West know that George Bush apparently does care about black people.
-Chris Jones
Video: Former President Bush Throws Out Opening Day Pitch At Texas Rangers Game
Bush definitely has the best arm of any president…
The Subtle Campaign To Restore Bush’s Image
One thing the Obama camp and democrats in general have been masters at is demonizing president Bush. Democrats love to talk about “the last eight years” as if they were the most brutal and savage years in American history.
Liberals lament the so-called “Bush economic policies” that “got us into this mess” and pretend that all of America’s ills are the fault of George W. Bush A.K.A. Hitler A.K.A. War Criminal, etc.
There’s been a never ending campaign by the far left to rewrite history and paint the last eight years as nothing but misery.
Thankfully, many of Bush’s inner circle are pushing back subtly, gently reminding Americans about the many good things that happened under president Bush. Politico has an interesting story about this and the players involved.
The loose confederation of “Bush defense forces” as Politico calls them include Ari Fleischer, Dana Perino, Karl Rove, Tony Fratto, Peter Wehner, and Michael Gerson. They say it’s not any kind of organized or planned effort to restore Bush’s image, but they believe in what they did over the last eight years and want to correct the record now that they can speak more freely.
For instance, Ari Fleischer is using the current economic crisis to push back against those who blame “Bush economic policies” for the crisis.
He quite correctly points out that Bush oversaw an unprecedented 55 straight months of job creation and economic growth. Even after the financial turmoil that 9/11 caused, America’s economy was booming for the first six years of the Bush presidency.
Bush attempted early in his presidency to put new restrictions on Fannie and Freddie to prevent the very kind of mortgage mess we’re experiencing, but he was blocked by at every turn by Barney Frank and Chris Dodd.
There’s also been subtle pushback on issues such as stem cells, energy, and the budget.
Refreshing: Bush Receives Standing Ovation At Baylor Basketball Game
It’s nice to see that at least some Americans still have a little class…
Dalai Lama: “I Love George W. Bush”
No single man stands for nonviolence, peace, and all the other warm and fuzzy stuff liberals hold so dear than the Dalai Lama. So imagine the shock and horror felt by the crowd his holiness was speaking to when he suddenly blurts out, “I love George W. Bush.” I would have paid a hefty sum even in this recession to see that.
The comment came when the Dalai Lama was explaining to an audience how he feels about terrorism:
“It is difficult to deal with terrorism through non-violence,” the Tibetan spiritual leader said delivering the Madhavrao Scindia Memorial Lecture here.
He also termed terrorism as the worst kind of violence which is not carried by a few mad people but by those who are very brilliant and educated.
“They (terrorists) are very brilliant and educated…but a strong ill feeling is bred in them. Their minds are closed,” the Dalai Lama said.
He said that the only way to tackle terrorism is through prevention. The head of the Tibetan government-in-exile left the audience stunned when he said “I love President George W Bush.” He went on to add how he and the US President instantly struck a chord in their first meeting unlike politicians who take a while to develop close ties.
Richard Gere is probably sobbing uncontrollably even as I write this. But just wait, all the liberals who until now worshipped the Dalai Lama are suddenly going to say he’s a crazy old man on his way out.
-Chris Jones
Video: President Bush Gives His Farewell Message
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Video: Rush Limbaugh Describes His Surprise Birthday Party At The White House
That is hilarious! I can imagine how embarrassing it would be to have ordered all that food when the president only has a PB & J.
Video: President Bush’s Last Press Conference
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Obama’s Workouts Good, Bush’s Workouts Bad
As Michelle Malkin points out in her latest column, we’ve had a president who ran, lifted weights, and mountain biked fanatically for the last eight years. George W. Bush is the healthiest president in American history. While most would see this as a good example to set for the country and an overall net positive, the media of course saw it differently.
Like everything else president Bush did, his exercise routine was described in such glowing terms as “creepy” and “disturbing.” He was routinely derided for wasting time exercising instead of doing real work. When he wrecked on his mountain bike a couple of years ago and had a busted lip and a scraped chin, the media made jokes and liberal bloggers lamented the fact that his injuries weren’t more severe.
Compare that with newly elected Barack Obama. His dedication to physical fitness seems be on par with that of president Bush, but the media’s reaction to it seems to be quite a bit different.
Obama has gone to the gym, for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row. He always has treated exercise less as recreation than requirement, but his devotion has intensified during the past few months. Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.
Are you kidding me? I had to laugh out loud when I read that. Any “reporter” who writes something like that is officially a douchebag. So it was lame for president Bush to exercise to maintain a healthy heart, but it’s cool for Obama to exercise so he looks good in a swimsuit? Wow, that’s really something. What the liberal media fails to realize is that even with chiseled pectorals, Obama will likely still have a heart attack before Bush because he’s a smoker.
So for all the intelligence and God like ability that Barack Obama has it’s a shame he’s too stupid and weak willed to stop smoking cigarettes. The media’s reporting on Barack Obama has gone from blatantly in the tank to just plain funny. You can’t take it seriously or pay any attention to it. It’s like one big Saturday Night Live skit that just never ends.
(Photo via Michelle Malkin)
Bush Pardons 19
President Bush granted 19 pardons today before leaving town for the holidays. This brings president Bush’s total number of pardons to 191 which is half as many as Reagan and Clinton issued.
Shoe Throwing Journalist Asks For Pardon
The brazen shoe throwing journalist in Iraq is now describing the incident as an “ungly act” and asking Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki for a pardon:
The jailed journalist who threw his shoes at President George W. Bush has asked for a pardon for what he described as “an ugly act,” a spokesman for Iraq’s prime minister said Thursday.
Muntadhar al-Zeidi, a correspondent for an Iraqi-owned television station based in Cairo, Egypt, could face two years imprisonment for insulting a foreign leader. He remained in custody Thursday night.
“It is too late to now to regret the big and ugly act that I perpetrated,” al-Zeidi wrote in a letter delivered to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, according to the prime minister’s spokesman.
The spokesman, Yassin Majid, told The Associated Press that al-Zeidi went on in the letter to recall an interview he conducted with the prime minister in 2005 when al-Maliki invited him into his home, saying: “Come in, it is your home too.”
“So I ask for your pardon,” al-Zeidi wrote, Majid said.
The Iraqi PM can’t give al-Zeidi a pardon for something that has become so public, because it would set a terrible example. What that asshole did was a disgrace and an insult to America. No journalist would ever consider doing such a thing in any other country in the Middle East, because they would be killed. Ironically, it’s the very freedom that president Bush brought and al-Zeidi curses that allowed him to throw his shoes in the first place.
I think the guy is a scumbag and I hope the Iraqi police work him over good before they send him to prison.
Shoe Throwing Journalists Means Vibrant Democracy
Col. Ralph Peters has an excellent column in the NY Post today about the disgraceful shoe throwing journalist. Peters makes the point that shoes being thrown at the president in Iraq means we won. There is no other country in the Middle East in where such a free wheeling press conference would be tolerated. If such an act were to occur at a press conference in Egypt, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, Bahrain, Jordan, or any other country in the region with the exception of Israel the shoe tosser would almost certainly lose his life –and his family might as well.
Peters goes on to point out that the only reason the so-called ‘journalist’ did what he did was because he knew he would get away with it. So the very democracy he curses and spits upon is what allowed him to disrespect our president and live to tell about it.
It’s also worth noting that the shoe thrower is a supporter of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr and his family has a poster of Che Guevara on their wall. So democracy is clearly something they don’t get. However, if the shoe throwing journalist would like to throw something at our troops when he gets out of jail I’m sure they can arrange a meeting for him with say — 72 virgins.
-Chris Jones
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