Browsing around the intertubes I was on Bill Richardson's campaign site when I spotted a link under Bill Richardson Netroots to Florida for Richardson. Although I'm not a Richardson supporter, I'm a Floridian so I decided to look expecting to see a group working for Richardson. Instead I found a person with 5 blog posts written in Manglish (it's English but only by the most lax standards) with the last 4 have nothing to do with Richardson. The second most recent entry is titled "Is HIV a Huge Hoax?" And basically, as far as I can translate the Manglish, is about how HIV doesn't cause Aids.
My inquiry is quite simple. Are HIV/AIDS A hoax? Are we facing the greatest screen up in modern history? Are human immunodeficiency virus the cause of acquired immune deficiency syndrome or are we embarking on a wild goose chase? Are some collusive darkness military units at work?
As a consequence whatever is causing acquired immune deficiency syndrome in the developed human race is not contagious and is locked in to the original hazard groups.
You can go to the original post to read more if you want. Beware that reading too much, may cause your head to begin to ache under the strain of trying to understand what is written. I deny all responsibility for any anguish suffered from not only the writing style but the content of the message. And while I am always somewhat saddened to see that there are people out there spreading misinformation about HIV/Aids, we all know they are out there. It probably doesn't surprise any of us.
What does surprise me is that a campaign for a Democratic presidential nominee approved such a site to be listed/linked on their official site. Obviously a candidate isn't responsible for everything posted on every site, but shouldn't they make an attempt to at least make sure the site actually supports them and their stands on the issues? After all, this post wasn't on a well established site open to anyone to post, it was posted by the person who's site they approved even though it lacked content on which to judge it.
Shouldn't campaigns at least expect a certain level of background posts on a blog before making it a "Netroots" site? Aren't they making themselves very vunerable to anyone who wants to damage their campaign. In addition, wouldn't it discourage Florida volunteers to actually read what they may believe to be Richardson's Florida campaign site and find that offensive post instead?