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OBAMA LOSES IT!… Presidential MELTDOWN in Connecticut (Video)

Posted by Jim Hoft on Saturday, October 30, 2010, 5:44 PM

Woah!
Unbelievable– President Obama loses it in Connecticut!
Watch him go off on the protesters… Then he switches side and starts going off some other people.
It went on for 3 minutes.
This Was Wild—




He was campaigning for Blumenthal.
More… Chisum added:

Obama said: “We’re funding global AIDS and the other side is not!”
What? I thought it was our tax dollars? He deserves to be booed and ridiculed just for that statement!

The Hill has more on the meltdown.

Still More… President Bush’s international AIDS-fighting campaign saved 1.1 million lives.

Bono hails Bush's Aids funding

Bono says Europe needs to match the US contribution

U2 frontman Bono has welcomed US President George Bush's decision to spend more on Aids prevention in Africa and the Caribbean. The US leader is to increase the country's Emergency Plan for Aids Relief budget by $10 billion (£6.28bn) to $15 billion (£9.43bn) over the next five years.
President Bush said on Tuesday the budget would help prevent seven million new infections.
"If we can turn the president's bold long term vision into near term results we're excited," Bono said in a statement. 

Bush AIDS fight saved 1.1M, study says

AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE/GETTY IMAGES President Bush holds Baron Mosima Loyiso Tantoh in May 2007 after speaking on the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief in the White House Rose Garden.

By Stephen Dinan

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Former President George W. Bush's international AIDS-fighting campaign has reduced by 10 percent the mortality rates in 15 targeted countries, primarily in Africa, and has saved 1.1 million lives, according to a study that for the first time quantified the successes of his program.
The study by two Stanford University doctors showed the treatment part of PEPFAR, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, which involves making drug treatment available to about 2 million people, has shown solid success while the prevention efforts under the program have not yet produced the same concrete results.
"It has averted deaths - a lot of deaths - with about a 10 percent reduction compared with neighboring African countries," said Dr. Eran Bendavid, a fellow in infectious disease and in health policy and research at Stanford who led the study. "However, we could not see a change in prevalence rates that was associated with PEPFAR."
For each life saved, $2,700 was spent on treatment, according to the study in the Annals of Internal Medicine. It looked at death and infection rates from 2004 through 2007 in countries PEPFAR focused on versus 29 other African nations. The study found HIV infection rates were about the same.
Presidential scholars have said PEPFAR is one of the best chances Mr. Bush has to rehabilitate his legacy, and the study's results are a strong showing for the still-young program.
"It's great news that even in the first three years the American people supported the saving of more than a million lives,"