Guess

Did I post this picture because President Bush has done more for AIDS research than any other president?

Through the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR) and the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Malaria and Tuberculosis — working with committed governments, faith-based and community organizations, and the private sector — treatment and prevention have advanced at an almost unimaginable pace. This month, the Joint United Nations Program on AIDS announced that 6.2 million people are on lifesaving antiretroviral AIDS drugs in sub-Saharan Africa — up from just 100,000 in 2003. This is more than a vast statistic. It is a series of real people’s names — those of nurses, doctors, civil servants, farmers, students, entrepreneurs and parents who did not leave orphans behind. It is proof of what many in Africa call the Lazarus effect: Communities once given up for dead have been brought back to life, and millions of men, women and children are alive to build their futures.

Or because President and Mrs. Bush recently visited Africa to promote a cancer initiative?

George W. Bush and Laura Bush wrapped up a week-long trip to Africa Friday, where they visited Zambia and Botswana promoting an initiative to fight cervical cancer and breast cancer in the countries.

As part of the charity initiative the Bushes helped open medical centers providing cancer screenings, visited sick children at an orphanage, and met with Peace Corps members, according to the George W. Bush Presidential Center.

© The Bush Center The $3 million women’s health initiative, called Pink Ribbon Red Ribbon, is a partnership between the George W. Bush Institute, the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, UNAIDS and Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Mmm… nope. I’ll let you guess why.

16 thoughts on “Guess”

  3. patti


    bet it is because you have the same reaction i do every time i see this shot of him. man looks damn fine for his age, don’t he?

  6. JihadGene

    Due to the horrible mess Bush left behind, President Obama was just too busy to help out the Africans. But on the bright side …the “O” is working on getting illegal aliens jobs here as well as the right to vote.

    1. Pam Post author

      I know the O is busy… but too busy to help his own peeps? He’s from Kenya, correct?

      Those poor illegals. I hear their unemployment numbers are abysmal.

  8. Peter

    I met GWB the first time he was running for Governor, against Ann Richards. It was the Senatorial District Convention, the first time I got elected to Precinct Chairman. He spoke and then afterwards came a bunch of pols and judges that my precinct had nothing to do with so I was outside, smoking with the others. So, there we were, smokin’ and jokin’ and out walked GWB and one aid and one plainclothes DPS Officer. Dubya stood there talking with us for some 45 minutes, people came and went, never more than around seven and sometimes only three.

    I’ve been a Dubya fan ever since. I may never forgive him for not fighting back against the Washington Dems, but I’ll never forget standing there with him talking and LISTENING to us there, while his aid kept looking at his watch.

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