This sums it up. The man is not smart enough to run a campaign, let alone the country. This is pandering and I’m not buying it. From the moment he started rising in the polls, I’ve been uneasy, but this article made my decision:
Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration’s efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone “arrogant bunker mentality” and questioning decisions on Iraq.
Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor now running for the Republican presidential nomination, lays out a policy plan that is long on optimism but short on details in the January-February issue of the journal Foreign Affairs, which is published by the Council on Foreign Relations. A copy of his article was released Friday.
“American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude, open up, and reach out,” Huckabee said. “The Bush administration’s arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad. My administration will recognize that the United States’ main fight today does not pit us against the world but pits the world against the terrorists.”
In one specific criticism, Huckabee said Bush did not send enough troops to invade Iraq. And he accused the president of marginalizing Gen. Eric Shinseki, the Army chief of staff, who said at the outset of the war that it might take several hundred thousand U.S. troops to control Iraq after the invasion. “I would have met with Shinseki privately and carefully weighed his advice,” Huckabee said.
It is always easy to second guess what another person does. Hey Mr. Huckabee, I would have met privately with the families of the victims of those you pardoned..Asshat…
Allahpundit has more.
Others are comparing him to Jimmy Carter. We can not afford another Jimmy Carter.
See:
Mike Huckabee = Jimmy Carter? « Federal Way Conservative
Huckabee: “American foreign policy needs to change its tone and attitude”
Right Wing Nut House » THE VERY DEEP THOUGHTS OF MIKE HUCKABEE
H/T to Memeorandum
Criticism Helps Huckabee
Update: $10,000 In Donations Seems To Have Bought Clemency For Repeat Drunken Driver
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Huckabee’s Critics (There Are A Lot of Them!)
Quote of the Day
“Mike Huckabee raised more taxes in 10 years in office than Bill Clinton did in his 12 years.” — writes Ernie Dumas, Arkansas Leader.
Another troubling Huckabee clemency
Huckabee’s Laundry List of Liberalism
STACLU has the video: Glenn Beck: “Huckabee Will Implode”
http://www.TaxHikeMike.org
Well. this is what you get for the Republicans pandering to Christians all these years, but not actually delivering on promises to them. Finally, an actual Christian candidate.
GO MIKE!!! <:-p
“Ernie Dumas, Arkansas Leader.”– Everyone in Arkansas knows Dumas as a liberal columnist, and a Clinton stooge.
Sorry to see you drinking the koolaid Pam.
3- Not drinking any koolaid Nuke. The man does not have the qualifications to lead this country in 2009 and beyond. He panders and then apologises. He can’t even fully explain his pardons..Screw him…no support.
We certianly dont need a politician who is going to grant clemency to rapists,child molesters, and other crinimals he is too darn liberals:o
TT- I’m a Christian. I am a practicing Catholic. What was I promised that I didn’t get?
On top of everything else, how can we trust another politician from a corrupt little backwater like Arkansas? Remember what happened last time?
Robert, I think Snowy summed it up best..he is liberal and what’s to stop him from going soft on terrorism?
9-”he is liberal”
As was Jesus Christ. (um, that’s where the term ‘Christian’ comes from, just in case you were wondering).
#10, yeah right…you mean Jesus supported killing unborn children? Jesus wanted religion out of the public venue? Really?
10, just because mainline Christians do not support Homosexuality doesn’t disqualify them from being President.
Hey, if you’re nuts like Kucinich or Gore, Democrats like you think he’s prime Presidential material.
“Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration’s efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone “arrogant bunker mentality”and questioning decisions on Iraq.”
Perhaps Huckleberry hasn’t heard that Bush isn’t running this time around?