GOP's Huckabee implies obese people are to blame for our health care crisis

[draft_mario_cuomo]

More "compassionate conservatism". :sarcasm: Bill Clinton and everyone from Hope, Arkansas must be ashamed that their town produced this scumbag.

==By Michael Falcone

Though he’ll be busy campaigning in Iowa over the next few weeks, if Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee wants to take a break from the trail, and say, catch a movie, he made it pretty clear today that he won’t be seeing “Sicko,” Michael Moore’s new film about health care.

On a conference call with reporters today, the former Arkansas governor said: “Michael Moore is an example of why the health care system costs more in this country,” and criticized the filmmaker for his remarks during a tense exchange earlier this week with CNN anchor Wolf Blitzer and the network’s chief medical correspondent, Dr. Sanjay Gupta.

Although Mr. Huckabee didn’t explicitly say what he meant by the jab, he went on to describe how his own health care costs dropped dramatically after he shed more than 100 pounds over a period of several years. Mr. Huckabee, who has acknowledged that he once tipped the scale at nearly 300 pounds, now maintains a strict exercise regimen.==

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/07/11/huckabee-vs-michael-moore/