POTUS News: President Barack Obama vowed on Thursday to bolster U.S. efforts to fight AIDS, setting a new goal of providing treatment to 6 million people worldwide, up from the earlier goal of 4 million. Obama, at a World AIDS Day event, also challenged other nations to boost their commitments and called on China to “step up” as a major donor in the effort to expand access to AIDS drugs. Read more here.
Meanwhile….In Egypt News: After 60 years of waiting, Egyptians may very well find themselves with a strong, assertive Parliament. On Monday and Tuesday, millions of Egyptians spent hours in long, looping lines, waiting to cast ballots in the country’s first elections since the fall of President Hosni Mubarak. The two days of voting felt like a success, particularly because in the days leading up to the vote, Egypt seemed on the verge of implosion. Street battles in Tahrir Square had claimed more than 40 lives, as police used brute force in an attempt to subdue protesters. Read more here.
Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pant Suits News: Aung San Suu Kyi, the Burmese pro-democracy campaigner and Nobel prize winner, had dinner with US secretary of state Hillary Clinton on Thursday night in a diplomatic residence in the port city of Rangoon. The extraordinary meeting came at the end of Clinton’s first full day of her historic trip to the isolated south Asian state, the first by a top-ranking American official for more than 50 years. Read more here.
I Got Hoes In Different Area Codes News: The verdict was swift and merciless: The Cain Train has reached the terminus. “Everybody knows this candidacy is basically dead,” NBC political director Chuck Todd said Tuesday on the Today show, the morning after an Atlanta woman said she had had a years-long affair with married Republican candidate Herman Cain. “Except the campaign.” “There’s only so many head blows you can take,” CNN commentator Mary Matalin said. Read more here.
Happy Thursday POU family! Check out the links and come back to discuss. Today is December 1, 2011 and marks the first day of “25 Days of an Obot Christmas”. Here’s your Holiday Thursday Throwback…..