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Conservatives Aren't Happy: Obama Drops Bush's Africa AIDS Czar

Hard to imagine why Obama didn't want to keep Mark Dybol around ... oh right, the whole hating on women and condoms stuff.
January 28, 2009  |  
 
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Michael Gerson and Africa...you know this can't be good. Today he has a fit over Mark Dybol, Bush's Africa AIDS czar being told to submit his resignation and depart on Inauguration Day.

Golly, hard to believe the incoming Obama Administration may have wanted a guy who said this to leave:

Acknowledging that women are increasingly at the center of the pandemic, Dybul claimed that the Administration's ideologically driven program that focuses on promoting abstinence until marriage and faithfulness in marriage "might be the best way to encourage men to treat women better."

Ah yes, the famed shut up, put out and make me a sandwich method of "faithfulness". There was a special de-emphases on the use of condoms:

Attaturk is a regular blogger for FireDogLake

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