NEW YORK - About 100 anti-Bush demonstrators staged a quick, loud and well-organized protest at Grand Central Terminal during the early morning rush hour Thursday, unfurling banners that called on the president to do more to fight AIDS.
The short protest began at 8:05 a.m. when a man strode into the middle of the terminal's vast concourse and blew a whistle, signaling 100 other demonstrators to pour into the hall from various entrances and ticket lines, chanting "Fight AIDS, not Iraq." Almost simultaneously, demonstrators positioned on staircases on either side of the concourse unfurled banners that read: "America has AIDS. Our next president must stop the plague."
The problem with this protest is that the President is doing a lot to "stop the plague." Even though America already provides more than half of all the funding for international AIDS programs (approximately $460 million) he has called for a 10% increase in the amount of money allocated for it (roughly $200 million more). America provides twice as much money for AIDS programs as any other nation on earth, and yet these protesters want more?
Something tells me that these protesters wouldn't be satisfied even if Bush found the cure for AIDS himself in a private lab in the Oval Office.