Huckabee Unaware of Issues Between U.S. and Cuba
Posted on December 10, 2007
Please, can we put the brakes on this Huckabee train? We really don’t need an idiot for President. I mean, if this was his only time to be “unaware” of an important topic, it would be forgiveable, but this is just too much. How is it even possible that someone that wants to be President not know about the issues existing between America and Cuba? Yikes! If this guy turns out to be our frontrunner you can all say hello to a President Clinton.
On Cuba, Thompson criticized Huckabee, who in 2002 asked President Bush to lift the embargo against that country, saying it “has not helped the people of Cuba.â€
“He thinks we should lift the embargo against Castro. I disagree with that,†Thompson said today at the Bay of Pigs Museum in Miami. “I think it raises issues when politicians change their views on a dime to appeal to a particular group of people right before an election.†The governor recently issued a statement saying he supports the embargo.
Huckabee defended himself in Miami this morning, according to CBS News’ Joy Lin, saying his “major concern†in 2002 was to try and “revive a sagging economy†impacted by the recession. “Our rice markets were in trouble…At that time, my primary responsibility was simply to hear the concerns unique to my state,†he said.
Since then, Huckabee said, he had been able to find new markets for the rice market by going to Taiwan, Japan, and South Korea to find Asian markets for the state’s rice. Another reason for the policy change, explained Huckabee, was that he was “really not that aware†of the issues the issues that exist between Cuba and the United States.
“Being in Arkansas, that’s not one of the issues I am in close proximity with,†he said.
I’m sorry, but Arkansas is located on Planet Earth isn’t it?
It’s astonishing to me that he believes this level of ignorance is a defense. And even more astonishing to me — I halfway believe he’s as ignorant as he claims.
Has he heard of Afghanistan? Just checking.
“…really not that aware†of the issues between the United States and Cuba. How is it even possible for someone who wants to be president not to know of the issues that stretch back to 1959 between the US and Cuba? Never mind the war that the US fought against Spain that ended up wresting Cuba from the Spanish empire. How could he not be aware of any of this?
I was never governor of Arkansas or any other state, yet I’m aware of the issues between the US and Cuba.
Can we reasonably expect Huckabee to know the difference between a Shia and Sunni and how that might be relevant in the world today? Is that asking too much of someone who wants to run the foreign policy of the United States of America?
All this ignorance among our dear leaders is giving me a gigantic headache.
Allahpundit:
I keep doing this piecemeal, in the course of other posts, but there are now enough examples of Huck’s ignorance or suspected ignorance in policy matters that it might be worth compiling them and putting them in their own entry. Revisit the AIDS post for a few. He thought the new NIE was four years old; he thought ICE was still known as INS; he thought Gitmo was a fine idea until he talked to some retired generals about it, and then very suddenly he didn’t; he thought the danger of transmitting HIV through casual contact was sufficient to warrant a quarantine six years after we knew it wasn’t;….
Dan Riehl has more you should read.
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