Huckabee Stands by AIDS Statement (that AIDs patients should be isolated)

[Liberal_in_LA]

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jB892tzOUc1w708xuk49pzfZ3yyQD8TE6AB00

Huckabee Stands by AIDS Statement
4 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — GOP presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday he won't run from his statement 15 years ago that AIDS patients should have been isolated.

Huckabee acknowledged the prevailing scientific view then, and since, that the virus that causes AIDS is not spread through casual contact, but said that was not certain. He cited revelations in 1991 that a dentist had infected a patient in an extraordinary case that highlighted the risk of infection through contact with blood or bodily fluids.

"I still believe this today," he said in a broadcast interview, 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. Yet he said he would state his view differently in retrospect.

[Olney Blue]

1. I refuse to have another "faith-based" presidency.

Huckabee, go back to Arkansas and STFU.

[pingzing58]

2. Backwards Arkansas and Oklahoma will be the only ones to vote for his brand of Christianity.

[HereSince1628]

3. I hope that is true.

Well, after hoping that he doesn't get any votes...that's my hope.

[lazer47]

7. Where in the hell did you come up with enough information

to claim that Arkansans are backward? or is this just some ignorant bias that you have developed over time?

[NMMNG]

4. All I have to say to F*ckabee is this:

[and-justice-for-all]

5. Tell Huckabee to go fuck himself...I just did!!!!

[e-mail]

[HughMoran]

6. Good, stick to your guns Mike

Go down shooting :rofl:

[pansypoo53219]

8. his base

i am sure agrees.