The other day on CNN Republican candidate Mike Huckabee said the following:

“I can tell you most of our prisoners would love to be in a facility more like Guantanamo and less like the state prisons that people are in in the United States.

It’s (Guantanamo) more symbolic than it is a substantive issue because people perceive of mistreatment when in fact there are extraordinary means being taken to make sure these detainees are being given really every consideration”

The clip is making its way through the left half of the blogosphere.

Now I haven’t currently seen the movie Sicko directed by Michael Moore but the clips I’ve seen from his various media appearances actually lend some credence to the statement. Moore boasts the incredible medical facilities and treatment given to prisoners at Guantanamo and had so much love for it he attempted to bring ailing 9/11 survivors to the facility for free health care.

So what does it mean? Who knows, I just think its interesting.