Thursday, January 10, 2008
“Toast” Governor Huckabee ?….
Mike Huckabee: Manchester, NH Post-Debate Party
ACT UP Founding Member Eric Sawyer confronted former Governor Mike Huckabee at a supporter’s reception after the Sunday night Debate in New Hampshire. As Huckabee took the podium to speak to supporters: a dozen AIDS Activists started clanking their glasses calling “Toast, Toast!” Sawyer called out Governor Huckabee: May I offer a Toast? Huckabee: Why not! Sawyer: As a Christian whose faith is very important to me - I wantto toast to Mike Huckabee the only politician with the courage tostand up for Christian Values!
[Sawyer toasts to crowd applaud] Sawyer: continues: I’m a Methodist like you and my values and my faith are very important to me: I know you are a Baptist.
[Crowd laughter] Huckabee: breaks in: I was going to say, you are - you know, a Methodist is a waterless Baptist. You know that. Sawyer: That’s, that’s true, and ah I don’t know that my Preacher would agree with that but ah I also wanted to say that one thing I think one of the Christian Values that is really important is… (more)
