Wednesday, December 1, 2010

On World AIDS Day, Larry Kramer, who first warned of epidemic, rips 'Do-nothing' Obama Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/12/01

On World AIDS Day, the man who first sounded the alarm about the AIDS epidemic and shamed the government into action for a decade, had some choice words for President Obama.

In an interview with the New York Daily News about growing older with HIV, Kramer, now 75 and writing a novel about America and AIDS, offered up his views on the current president.

“Mr. Do-Nothing Obama will say today ‘Lets think of all the poor dead people’- or ‘let’s honor all the dead’ instead of fighting for the living.

"He has been really useless in terms of both HIV and gay issues. An exceedingly large disappointment to me, how useless he has been.

"He is simply not a leader. He may be president, but he is not a leader.”


Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2010/12/01/2010-12-01_on_world_aids_day_larry_kramer_who_first_warned_of_epidemic_rips_donothing_obama.html#ixzz16usUBX7n

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