Letters to the Editor
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Cut Huckabee Some Slack
Hell, it took Bush 2 months to find out about it, so I guess that's par for the course.
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But angels carried his bullet to a deer when he was hunting...
...so does he really need to be informed on these little matters?
My guess is the Huckabee balloon will burst very shortly. His wierd behavior as Gov. of Arkansas will become an issue before long. He really is just a rube.
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First time he's been asked that question?
Jeez, if you want further proof our press is screwed up.
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No Policy Conundrum Here
It's been said that the Republican base cannot abide foreign policy realists and prefer policies based on idealism. Perhaps this is why Huckabee's numbers are steadily rising among those folks--they don't ask and he doesn't tell. It's no wonder the party beats the Islamocfascist drum at their debates.
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Whoa.
It's not just that Huckabee knows nothing about foreign policy and global affairs. It's that he's completely incurious about them.
Haven't we done this before?
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I'd like to breathe a sigh of relief...
... that someone so ignorantly arrogant could never be elected president by the US people.
But the Current Occupant destroys that illusion.
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buh?
What the hell is wrong with these Repubican candidates? how could such a clueless, ignorant batch of rubes (thompson, Guiliani, etc...) even stand a ghost of a chance of being the chief executive of our country.
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But hey...
He's a nice guy that you can sit down and have a beer with, and that's what we're looking for in our presidential candidates these days right? Affability. Congeniality. We certainly don't want people who will look at issues critically, or have "downer" conversations about global warming. We want someone who looks pretty in front of the cameras and says "Go shopping!" (and if we can get him to giggle a bit and say "like, oh my God", we'll be in the clear).
Personally, I want a president that doesn't drink beer, they drink brandy. I don't want someone who clears brush, but who reads George Washington and Thomas Paine. I want someone who can't just balance their checkbook, but understand Keynsian economics and physics and calculus. The President is supposed to be the model of our citizenry, the best and the brightest that we can put on the world stage. He's supposed to appeal to our better angels and shout down our demons.
Then we got George Bush.
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This doesn't bother me as much as...
...not believing in the whole "science" thing.
That's the spooky part of Mr. Huckabee.
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Morgaine
Did you really mean "ignorantly arrogant"...or perhaps "arrogantly ignorant"? Nevermind, both apply.
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Living proof
Huckabee is living proof that nice is more important than intelligent, informed, deliberative, and wise in today's political environment. He certainly is a charmer and much more pleasant than the rest of the Republicans, who all sound like they get up on the wrong side of the bed and take a Cheney pill every morning, but he is incredibly unqualified to be the leader of the free world.
The problem is that Bush has so far lowered our expectations that Huckabee looks OK to us. But hopefully not to an actual majority of us and the electoral college!
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I will actually cut Huckabee a teeny tiny bit of slack on this one
Look, folks, senior government officials, Presidential candidates, four-star generals and what-not are not well-informed and capable of coming up with pithy off-the-cuff responses to world events because they're highly intelligent and well-informed. They're capable of coming across as well-informed because most of them have a bureaucratic apparatus that is carefully feeding them immaculately-put-together "information memoranda" and "talking points." It's actually kind of hard *not* to come across as well-informed when so many people are going to such great lengths to collect information for you and condense it into easily digestible factoids.
The fact that Huckabee hadn't heard about the NIE points to some serious shortcomings among his senior campaign staff. What this maybe tells us is that his recent movements to the front of the campaign pack, and the increased scrutiny resulting therefrom, has outpaced his campaign's ability to provide adequate staffing.
Now, if he gets asked again about the NIE and can't come up with an intelligent answer by then, we know that his campaign staff is either incompetent or he is. Or both.