My first post just said I hope he meets up with all those souls.

During the years of 1978-1985, AIDS was pegged as a gay disease. As more and more fell, and it was realized by both the medical community as well as the gay community how widespread this could become, they started to urge the president to just "legitimize" the whole situation by giving AIDS credence. Instead, he kept silent on the whole issue, PAVING (not making) the road for other politicians to either ignore the disease or just paint it as just a gay disease.

Even in California, legistlature were appear on ballots that basically wanted anyone who even tested for AIDS to be confined to a specific community so this wouldn't spread.

Compare the lack of news on AIDS between 1978-1985 to SARS. yes, we're in a faster informational age right now but 1978-1985 wasn't the dark ages either.

You all are looking at the results of hard work by AIDS foundations and entertainers working hard to spread the word about aids, which is why AIDS has the largest budget now.

None of you can imagine being in a roomfull of dying people, all waiting for the president of THEIR country to give them some sort of acknowledgement. We watched his speeches like we would watch Dynasty.

My anger is at that. That millions of his countrymen were dying and he never acknowledged that the disease existed. I just want those dead souls to teach him Yes, Ronnie, there IS such a thing as AIDS.