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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With the current monkey in charge of the NK, Huckabee would be pushing up weeds before the Sun shined the next day.
>>‘Not ready for primetime.’<<
My thoughts exactly. First, the remark (even though directed at the TSA) showed a remarkable ignorance of conditions in North Korea. And, second, before those words left his mouth alarm bells should have been ringing regarding how they could come back to haunt him.
It’s right up there with Romney’s “47%” and Obama’s “bitter clingers.” And we already know whether or not the media will broadcast it far and wide when the need arises.
He doesn’t have a chance in hell of being nominated anyway, but still, he should have known better.
Well I wouldn’t go that far but its getting pretty bad. Bad enough that the lid may blow. Americans only know freedom and now that its being taken away they are getting fearful and angry. A dangerous combination.
I think the photo is a decade old, so everyone has gotten... bigger.
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