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AIDS Protesters Are Very Rude to President Obama

President Obama's response to shouting, sign-wielding AIDS protesters who interrupted his speech at a Democratic fund-raiser in the Roosevelt Hotel in Manhattan last night? "Apparently you're interested in funding AIDS." He's a very perceptive man. Seriously, though, federal HIV/AIDS funding has gone up under Obama.