Huckabee
Posted: December 11th, 2007, 9:21 am
He catching all kinds of shit, for some AIDS comments he made 15 years ago, when there were still some unanswered questions about the virus..
"As a Senate candidate in 1992, Huckabee told the AP News in a questionnaire that "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague" if the federal government was going to deal with the spread of the disease effectively. "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents," he said then.
In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Huckabee denied that those words were a call to quarantine the AIDS population, although he did not explain how else isolation would be achieved. "I didn't say we should quarantine," he said. The idea was not to "lock people up."
"I still believe this today," Huckabee said Sunday, that "we were acting more out of political correctness" in responding to the AIDS crisis. "I don't run from it, I don't recant it," he said of his position in 1992.
His comments referred to how much funding AIDS research and treatment receives, vs. other diseases that effect allot more lives, and are not generally preventable as AIDS is.
I would say he nailed that one!!
Anybody supporting this guy?
"As a Senate candidate in 1992, Huckabee told the AP News in a questionnaire that "we need to take steps that would isolate the carriers of this plague" if the federal government was going to deal with the spread of the disease effectively. "It is the first time in the history of civilization in which the carriers of a genuine plague have not been isolated from the general population, and in which this deadly disease for which there is no cure is being treated as a civil rights issue instead of the true health crisis it represents," he said then.
In an interview on "Fox News Sunday," Huckabee denied that those words were a call to quarantine the AIDS population, although he did not explain how else isolation would be achieved. "I didn't say we should quarantine," he said. The idea was not to "lock people up."
"I still believe this today," Huckabee said Sunday, that "we were acting more out of political correctness" in responding to the AIDS crisis. "I don't run from it, I don't recant it," he said of his position in 1992.
His comments referred to how much funding AIDS research and treatment receives, vs. other diseases that effect allot more lives, and are not generally preventable as AIDS is.
I would say he nailed that one!!
Anybody supporting this guy?
