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Gov. Huckabee Claims There's More Freedom in North Korea than US
Townhall.com ^
| 04/13/2014
| Christine Rousselle
Posted on 04/14/2014 5:22:51 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Sometimes politicians speak without thinking. Former Arkansas Governor and GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee was a perfect example of this on Saturday when he bizarrely claimed that he's "beginning to think there's more freedom in North Korea sometimes than in the United States." Huckabee was speaking in Manchester, NH at AFP's Freedom Summit.
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To: GIdget2004
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:23:58 AM PDT
by
GeronL
(Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans!)
To: GIdget2004
I think the left aspires to make us like North Korea. They are getting closer every day.
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:28:41 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
To: GIdget2004
If he made a similar comment about freedom in North Korea while living there, he’d be in prison the next day.
This is just populist pandering
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:33:11 AM PDT
by
Zathras
To: GIdget2004
Krauthammer has a column today about how a petition with 110,000 signatures was sent to the Washington Post saying that columns criticizing global warming should not be printed. That was sent the day before his column about global warming.
To: driftdiver
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:34:27 AM PDT
by
Vigilanteman
(Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
To: GIdget2004
Stupid goober.
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:38:22 AM PDT
by
montag813
To: GIdget2004
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:41:23 AM PDT
by
sickoflibs
(Obama : 'You can keep your doctor if you want. I never tell a lie ')
To: montag813
Hey Mike, heavyweights shouldn’t wear striped shirts.
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:47:00 AM PDT
by
duckman
(I'm part of the group pulling the wagon!)
To: GIdget2004
Well that just made for a couple of campaign commercials for his opponents should he throw his hat in the ring.
To: Zathras
Worse yet, it makes us all look like unbalanced loons.
Shut up, Mike.
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posted on
04/14/2014 5:59:01 AM PDT
by
highball
("I never should have switched from scotch to martinis." -- the last words of Humphrey Bogart)
To: GIdget2004
Example #153 of ‘Not ready for primetime.’
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:01:24 AM PDT
by
Beagle8U
(Unions are an Affirmative Action program for Slackers! .)
To: GIdget2004
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:02:11 AM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Ted Cruz-Rand Paul 2016)
To: GIdget2004
Not yet but we’re getting there.
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:04:10 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(REMEMBER THE RIVER RAISIN!)
To: Perdogg
Correct. We need to remember that a conservative can say “Good Morning” and the left will twist it into, “All children should die.”
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:05:23 AM PDT
by
wolfpat
(Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. -- Cicero)
To: GIdget2004
People in AR pick some of the silliest people for public office, but will they stick with HRC in 2016?
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:16:15 AM PDT
by
Theodore R.
(It was inevitable: Texans will always be for Cornball and George P.!)
To: GIdget2004
He said the TSA. "Huckabee: TSA Worse than North Korea"
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:50:29 AM PDT
by
SkyDancer
(I Believe In The Law Until It Intereferes With Justice. And Pay Your Liberty Tax Citizen.)
To: montag813
It’s a race to determine which GOP candidate will be fatter: Christie, Huckabee or Jeb.
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:51:52 AM PDT
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dfwgator
To: GeronL
Misleading Headline is right.
Quite a stretch of what he said.
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posted on
04/14/2014 6:58:59 AM PDT
by
McGruff
To: Zathras
Yes, so far all they can do is get people fired, taxes audited, or their business harassed by regulatory agencies.
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posted on
04/14/2014 7:19:16 AM PDT
by
driftdiver
(I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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