[Huckabee's] AIDS comments alarm Ryan White's mother

[deadparrot]

Source: Associated Press

DES MOINES, Iowa - Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee's 15-year-old comments that AIDS patients should have been isolated have so alarmed the mother of Ryan White, an Indiana teenager whose life-ending battle with AIDS in the 1980s engrossed the nation, that she has asked for a meeting.

"I would be very willing to meet with them," the former Arkansas governor responded Tuesday while campaigning in western Iowa. "I would tell them we've come a long way in research, in treatment."

The GOP front-runner in Iowa's Jan. 3 caucuses stood by his 1992 comments in a broadcast interview Sunday, infuriating Jeanne White-Ginder, the late teen's mother and a board member of the AIDS Institute.

"It's so alarming to me," she said in a telephone interview Monday with The Associated Press from her home in Leesburg, Fla.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071211/ap_po/huckabee_ryan_white

[TwilightGardener]

1. Oh, Huck will tell Ryan White's mother all about the advances in research and treatment?

Thank God--I'm sure she knows nothing about the subject. What a fucking asshole.

[Donnachaidh]

2. what a condescending little puke huckadoodle doo is

Like he knows more about aids research than a mother of a hemophiliac! This is WHY we need to keep this sanctimonious POS out of the WH. :grr: