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All the candidates and all politicians depend on daily briefs from staff advisors before they speak to the press that day. Huckabee recieved a very poor brief from some pretty sloppy advisors leading to a poor day in the lime light. NO BIG DEAL?

To Jeremy:

I was delighted when Al Gore got the nomination because I thought he would smear George Bush all over the place. As we have seen many times, it's not over 'til it's over. Never overestimate the intellect of voters and keep up the fight!

Brad, from the Great State of Texas;

Every president we've ever had was a Christian, liberal as well as conservative. Liberals don't have a problem with people being Christian. What they object to is the notion that evangelical presidents have a right to legislate the lives of others based on whether or not they're Christian. Huckabee claiming that homosexuality is a "sinful and aberrant lifestyle" is one thing; but denying the right to marriage, civil-union, adoption, and open service in a military that claims to be fighting for freedom is not acceptable from our point of view. Same attitude towards Muslims, as he clearly has no qualms about *permanently* deporting the entire Palestinian nation to Egypt or Saudi Arabia, and is practically drooling at the idea of cracking down on Pakistani immigration.

As a citizen, my problem isn't with his religion, it's with his need to impose it on everyone else and punish all those who don't partake in it. And as a Christian, my problem isn't with his religion, it's with the way he needs to shove it in everyone's face again and again and again, the way he did in the Christmas ad and the way he's done in every speech he's given throughout the campaign. The fact that someone's a Christian doesn't tell me anything about his character. The way he lives his Christianity, on the other hand, tells me a lot, and in my book, Huckabee doesn't even approach the character needed to be president.

As for foreign policy? I don't think he's a stupid person, I just think he chooses not to know or care about it, for the simple reason that foreigners don't vote. As a campaigner, he's brilliant, probably the best in this election. But as a president? If the two options were him and George W Bush, I'd vote for Bush.

Voting for ol' Huck – well that's just the Christian thing to do, ain't it? So says the Lord. Voting for one of them other candidates just ain't Christian-like I reckon.

Huck – Here's some free advice. Quit crying about all the "attack ads" and spend your time learning a bit about the world. I'll bet you didn't even know who Bhutto was until one of your aides clued you in.

You can't defend your record so you just cry if anyone tries to make it public knowledge. You can't find anything to hit Romney on other than his religion so again you cry if Romney rightly tells the people what you're to afraid to tell them yourself. If the truth is negative, then that's what it is.

Think of it this way, for all those people who support giving free tuition to illegal immigrants...for all those people who support 1000+ pardons, including to criminals who you let free to rape and murder again...for all those people who like tax increases, Romney is giving you free advertising. He's telling all those people all the "great" things you did as Governor.

My real question for some of you here is this: Why are you folks (specifically commenters like Charles, Sean Allen, and Henry Miller) so opposed to a Christian being president? You guys find lots of ways to shred Huckabee to bits, much like you do to our President, then you attribute their lack of intelligence to their religion. That's unfair, and it is also prejudicial, much like a police officer who hassles a black person because of skin color.

Bush's failings as a president have little or nothing to do with his religious beliefs– they have more to do with the fact that he has let people in his circle exert too much influence on policy. For example, Rumsfeld convinced Bush that a large troop contingency was not necessary to maintain Iraq–now fast forward a few years, and we see that a large number of troops can have success providing Iraqis with security.

Charles, Henry, Sean, and the rest of the liberal clowns around here need to just admit what the rest of us already know.

This should make no difference to Republicans, afterall look at who is currently in office, no ounce of foreign policy even after a second term. It's about God, Gays, and Guns people, that's all Republicans have to run on. I hope he wins, so Hillary can smear him all over the place, it will be fun to watch.

I doubt if any of Mr Huckabee's critics would chose to live in President (Dictator?)
Mushareff's Pakistan, marshall law or not.

who cares if Huckabee doesn't have foreign policy experience, the man is a baptist minister, if you are a Christian and vote for anyone but him you'll burn in hell

mr obama i wish u were the nominee... u r far better than hilliary.... god help us all if she were elecected

when push comes to shove were on our on ??????? where are you president??????

it goes this far ..... you have the talkers (rush... sean...neal...ect.....they want theyre candidate ,to win but they really dont care.....rush has a jet .. sean wants one neal boortz the best of all has a prevost.... i would take neals place he kicks ass !!!!!!!!! belinda and royal make neal # 1 in my book

Media is picking nits. Mr. Huckabee nailed in pretty well in a September address in Washington: http://snipurl.com/forpol

every candidate is afraid.... republican and democrat... to speak their peace????? usa or what???? they want to be elected. end of subject!!!!!!

I don't see what the big deal about this is. I mean, look at our current situation: instead of following Osama bin Laden and Al-quaeda to Afganistan and Pakistan, our knowledge of international affairs led us to dedicate virtually all our military and fiscal resources on Iraq. So what was wrong with that? No need to over think things. Next thing you know, people will start getting concerned about the deficit and the inability to fund Social Security benefits. Like most Republicans, I won't need Social Security, and so I am not concerned that the country keeps incurring annual deficits. I have no intention of paying anything back; anyone that thinks the Bush tax cuts won't become permanent is fooling themselves.

Stayed at a Holiday Inn Express last night? LOL

Huckabee would serve Arkansas very well. Particularly if the put some spending limits in place and restrict his work as a judge. It is a landlocked state....a good distance from our borders....where his mistakes could not hurt us much.

Somehow, while in office, he was able to serve as judge and jury for complex capital crimes and determine some criminals should be free. I do think Governors should govern and Judges should judge.

He may be a great guy....haven't met him, but Arkansas is where he belongs!

[quote]What a joke of a candidate. He's a smooth talker, sure, but utterly unfit to manage anything more than a township, much less an entire nation. [/quote]
LMFAO. I spat coke on my computer when I read this.

Isn't it a little too late?

History on current world affairs is in the making everyday. How could Huckabee not know about current world affairs, it's not like the world is talking about Abraham Lincoln or George Washington. If Huckabee thinks limiting himself on the topic of immigration is all it takes to be president, unfortunately he doesn't have that arena to himself. It's unbelievable that a presidential candidate is not knowledgeable on current world affairs and reads a local newspaper and takes it as the gospel.

After seven years of the dunce that currently occupies the White House, any candidate will look good.

Actually it's pretty smart.

The average Iowan doesn't know or care two bits about what happens outside of U.S. borders – ditto most of the red states. Huckabee knows that. Looking uninformed on foreign policy makes him look like a moron in DC, New York or Boston, but those places aren't going to vote for him anyway; meanwhile, it contributes to the "I'm one of you" everyman image he's carefully cultivated for the past few months.

There is no doubt that once in Washington, he won't know his ass from a hole in the ground. And there is no doubt that his election is one of the worst things that could happen to the Muslims in America, Pakistani or otherwise. But in electoral politics, he's got it all down. He knows who to appeal to and how to appeal to them, and it's gotten him *very* far. It wasn't so long ago that the exact same strategy propelled a very similar governor of Texas into the White House. Twice.

It's a sad state of affairs in this country that many politcal analysts believe that the Presidency must have one of the two (President or V.P.), come from the south. Evidently there are no impressive Southerners available at this time.
We have Huckabee, with a paltry education, and Fred Thompson, with little energy.
Get over it America. This time around we need to forget the South and vote for intellegence. So far, only Rudy and Mitt are capable of leading the nation.

It’s who will remove the “For Sale” sign from the White House stupid, not who has the most foreign policy credentials!

I know someone who is funnier, nicer, and has a better grasp on foreign affairs versus Huckabee. Jay Leno. He is not working right now. Jay Leno for president! *rim shot*

The "nuances of the situation in Pakistan" or anywhere else for that matter,depends solely on the sources of that information and the agendas of the people disseminating it.

Witness the war in Iraq.The President,the Vice-President and this entire criminal administration wanted the information they chose to present to Congress,the UN,Nato,the rest of the international community and the american people,to reflect their pre-determined desire to show Sadaam and Iraq were developing nuclear weapons and were on the verge of succeeding,in order to carry-out their war.What did they do?They culled only the information they wanted to present from all "intelligence" sources,most especially the CIA and tailored a presentation that was convincing enough to fool everybody.They then trotted out then Secretary of State General Collin Powell to do his little "show and tell" act to the UN espite months of work and a warehouse of information by the UN inspectors that clearly showed otherwise.

Only Congress,the British and some a large segment of the american citizens bought into it,many with sincere doubts and concerns.The rest of the international community,with the possible exception of Australia,sent modest to minimal troops or support,and then only because they didn't want to lose any US money or good-will by refusing any help at all and most got out of Iraq the minute they thought that they could.

Information is only as good as the people that give it to you and from then on it's who do YOU want to believe?The republican right already screwed up their choices and have almost brought about Armageddon.The situations in Pakistan,Iran,Afghanistan and Iraq are proof enough that the majority of american citizens and the international community as a whole have believed all of the wrong people.It's time to stop their mis-guided leadership while there is still a chance for democracy to once again become the cornerstone of our country's foundation of freedom and the rock upon which the rest of the world can build their own,not because of us,but in spite of us.

For the sake of our country,it's people and our freedom and possibly the future of humanity,we MUST STOP LISTENING to these people and their candidates,unless of course,you don't care if your children have no future.

Mr. Huckabee should remember one of the Ten Commandments is Thou Shall Tell The Truth.

"At an Orlando, Florida, press conference, the former Arkansas governor told reporters that the United States' first priority should be to find the responsible parties"

Why is it the job of the United States to do anything about a crime in another country? I have little confidence in Gov. Huckabee to perform the duties of the job he is applying for.

why would someone want a preacher to be president? a preacher has a calling. he should preach and pastor his flock . what happend? we need someone to lead this country . people who elect according to their faith are no different than the islamic radicals. please give me your comments. tks.

Terrific....gets his daily briefing from the newspapers.

It's not only Huckabee's dubious grasp of international issues that's being called into question. Outside his immediate circle of supporters, the maturity and development ofHuckabee's intellect is being challenged. He is generally regarded as having brain power in equivalence to Bush's. Face it folks, we don't need another president with less than a a100 watt bulb between his ears. That may be a good standard for hiring a pastor in one of those weird evangelical churches in the south, but in the real world low IQ is a liability. This man is only modestly less equipped than Willard the Mittmeister.

Here is the actual quote from Huckabee:

"People who questioned my view of foreign policy probably need go back and read the speech that I delivered back in Washington in September. … What we’ve seen happen is that in the Musharraf government, he has told us that he really does not have enough control of those eastern borders near Afghanistan to be able go after the terrorists. But on the other hand, he doesn’t want us going in because it violates his sovereignty."

Last time I looked on the map, the eastern border was with India. I am willing to forgive a couple of mistakes, but come on this is just getting embarassing.

I'm sorry Huckabee fans, this guy is just not qualified to be president.

What Foreign Policy knowledge? The Huckster knows little except on the subject of pardoning those who can afford his pardons. Something he learned from slick Willie?

Am I reading this wrong or did the guy really not know where Afghanistan and Pakistan were in relation to each other? Wow....... thats really pathetic.

This guy is making Bush look like a genius, and I didn't think that was possible.

More troubling than that is the fact that he said the "first priority should be to find the responsible parties".

As Guilianni, Thompson, and Mc Cain clearly pointed out in their interviews, the top priority is to do whatever we can to stablize this country which is full with Islamic radicals (maybe Osama himself), is currently rioting in the streets, and is armed with nuclear weapons.

I realize that Huckabee has a lot of positives, but his lack of understanding concerning crucial foreign policy issues is extremely troubling and may be a fatal flaw in his campaign for president.

Can anyone say "George Bush Part II" ???

From an old Judy Collins song, " where are the clowns? theres got to be clowns, wait there here. And they are the current crop of Republican and Democratic canidates running for president.

This guy obviously spends too much time thumping his bible and too little following one of the most important jobs a President has–foreign policy. Huckabee may be a nice guy and a "good" preacher (quotes because I haven't a clue what constitutes "good" in this context), but he's just not qualified to be President.

We elected George Bush twice and now someone thinks that American voters care about foreign policy.The only thing that matters for Huckabee supporters is that he is the right kind of Christy.The same logic got us George Bush will these people ever learn?

Whats this NEW talk about any candidate not having any foreign policy experience?
Start with FDR to the present Bush–NOT ONE OF THESE PEOPLE had ANY foreign policy experience– AND simply visiting there as a bunch of Congressional Reps have done, IS NOT EXPERIENCE.
Bush has made– created a catstrophe with his lack of knowledge, given Mushareff a BLANK CHECK which reportedly has cost American Taxpayers OVER 10 Billion,. and the amount is climbing.
They talk about crooked Govts,? there are NONE more crooked than the one we have in Washington.

What foreign policy experience does Rudy, Mitt or Fred have?????
But according to the media these guys are experts???????????

Governor Huckabee, I believe, has the leadership experience to move our
country to Freedom, Victory and Security.

Go Huck!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

Huck-man needs reeducation in international affairs just like Obama. Obama has shown that under his admin. it will be his wife running government, not himself. This is cowardise. Obama is running away from what he has been doing for the past many years: running away from accountability. Obama knows that 8 years of tough legislations and votes will show his indicisiveness and expose him to the true definition of relevant experience. To date he has thrived by skipping tough decisions as state senator and wants to do the same as US senator. His strategy has been to climb the ladder as fast as one can before voting records show one's weaknesses.

Obama knows that the next 8 years will do more harm to his purity – actually, avoidence – of skipping up the ladder so fast before the dust settles on truth. Eight years will sufficienntly open Obama to challenges on his voting records and he is trying to avoid it as early as possible. All this crap about my wife saying it's now or never is a total lie.

Rewind:
This is the most outregeous comment ever from the Obama campaign? It is the lowest level of desperation any campaign could show at exploiting Bhutto's death for political ends. Sincerely, how could any one link Clinton to Bhutto's death if it isn't a case of desperation? To say Clinton is responsible for Bhutto's death because she voted to authorize war in Iraq and that she votted to lebel the Iranian Republican Army a terrorist organization is from the brains of the simplest of simpletons.

If that is what David Axelrod believes is a political stregy I sympathize with the deficiencies in the Obama campaign. It is desperation that will fatally lay to waste the Obama campaign before Iowa Jan 3rd.

David Axelrod speaks like a mental case and I sincerely believe that he is even by just looking at his facial composure and body language. The whole Obama campaign will sink beyond rescue on Jan 3rd in Iowa because of Axelrod's dumb remarks. How silly can one be. Believe me.

But remember, he did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night!

What a joke of a candidate. He's a smooth talker, sure, but utterly unfit to manage anything more than a township, much less an entire nation.

His record as governor is stained with missteps, accepting lavish gifts, loving taxes, and for the most part sounding like another couple that came out of Hope, Arkansas: The Clintons.