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November 1, 2010

About that 'wierd Obama slur'

After President Obama was heckled Saturday by AIDS protesters and he interupted his speech to respond to them by unjustly slurring the GOP (as he is accustomed to doing) by telling them that his administration had done more to finance global AIDS programs than Republicans would. I was wondering if and when someone would call him on the lie. After all, George Bush actually tripled the funding for AIDS - while Obama actually scaled back Bush's AIDS initiative - and now has not only just now lied about it but blamed the GOP. No surprise here, Obama indeed has a history of stretching the truth.

Today, Jay Nordlinger calls him on it over at NRO:

So, Obama was talking back to those liberal hecklers -- good for him - and said, "You've been appearing at every rally we've been doing. And we're funding global AIDS [prevention]. And the other side is not. So I don't know why you think this is a useful strategy to take."Um, correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Bush 43 do a lot for global AIDS prevention? Wasn't he kind of famous for it? Wasn't that something that the Left actually granted him? I am not aware that the Republican party is standing in the way of AIDS prevention. Are you?

Another question: When Nina Totenberg says she hopes Jesse Helms or his grandchildren get AIDS, and the government pays her for her commentary, does that count as AIDS funding? (Sorry, I said, earlier in the Corner, that I was done with NPR comments.)

One more question: Do conservatives ever heckle Obama at speeches? Or does only the Left heckle?

As Jay is obviously aware, he's right on all counts. And our president has, once again, been caught in "stretching the truth" to the point of having said an outright lie and slurred the opposition.

Oh well, on the other hand the GOP should be glad that Obama didn't refer to them as "enemies", as he's done in the past.

Posted by Richard at November 1, 2010 10:56 AM

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