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Huckabee Pivots From Bhutto's Assassination To Immigration

by: Autumn Sandeen

Fri Dec 28, 2007 at 19:45:00 PM EST



Gov. Mike HuckabeeMSNBC has a few quotes up as Republican Presidential Candidate Mike Huckabee, reacting to former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's death. His comments seems to highlight his lack of foreign policy sagacity, and that he's going to continue the politics of fear-mongering.
In light of what happened in Pakistan yesterday it's interesting that there were more Pakistanis who illegally crossed the border than of any other nationality except for those immediately south of our border -- 660 last year.

And...
My point once again is to highlight that the lack of security on our borders poses a potential threat to us. I'm making the observation that we have more Pakistani illegals coming across our border than all other nationalities except those immediately south of the border. And in light of what's happening in Pakistan it ought to give us pause as to why are so many illegals coming across these borders.

He didn't get the facts right though. The Washington Post pointed out:
[T]he ex-governor blundered a bit in both the number of undocumented people caught by U.S. officials and its ranking among countries. Huckabee, citing a Denver Post article, said 660 people had been caught crossing the border illegally from Pakistan "last year," but the article actually noted 660 came from Pakistan from 2002 to 2005. He said more Pakistanis "than any other nationality except for those immediately south of the border" had been caught here illegally, but the Department of Homeland Security said in the last year both the Philippines and China had more people who were caught here illegally than Pakistan.

In an International Herald-Tribune piece, we read this quote with the publication's comment:

"We have seen what happens in the Musharraf government," Huckabee said on MSNBC. "He has told us he does not have enough control of those eastern borders near Afghanistan to be able go after the terrorists. But on the other hand, he did not want us going in, so what do we do?"

Those borders are actually on the west, not the east.

And, quoting a New York Times piece entitled Huckabee Sees Pakistan as Reason for Border Fence, Huckabee on Thursday night told reporters in Orlando, Florida said:

We ought to have an immediate, very clear monitoring of our borders and particularly to make sure if there's any unusual activity of Pakistanis coming into the country.

The Times went on to say:
Asked how a border fence would help keep out Pakistani immigrants, Mr. Huckabee argued that airplane security was already strong, but that security at the southern United States border was dangerously weak.

"The fact is that the immigration issue is not so much about people coming to pick lettuce or make beds, it's about someone coming with a shoulder-fired missile," he said.


That Huckabee pivoted from Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's death to U.S. immigration says to me that with Huckabee presidency, we'd get someone who doesn't really think in terms of foreign policy when international events occur (he doesn't know the geography; he doesn't have the facts straight), but pretty much only in terms of how international events impact domestic issues. And, Huckabee's tack on Bhutto's assassination tell me a Huckabee presidency would be one of four more years of the national politics of fear. We do not need four more years of simple-minded foreign policies and four more years of fear-mongering.

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Related:
* Perspectives: Top 10 Moments in Mike Huckabee's Extremism
* Just couldn't stop at 10: more moments of Mike Huckabee Extremism
* The Huckster is too "liberal" for Ann Coulter

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Misconstrued?
Perhaps the press misconstrued Huckabee's comments. I think maybe he meant that they should build a fence on the border between Pakistan and the US to keep illegal Pakistanis out? After all, without 12 million Mexicans already in the country illegally, there just isn't any more room left for 660 Pakistanis.

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An ordained version of George W. Bush.




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Ok...
I'm making the observation that we have more Pakistani illegals coming across our border than all other nationalities except those immediately south of the border.

How many countries does he think are immediately south of the border?  He probably thinks that no one will catch on to the racism if he doesn't come right out and say "Mexicans".
Here's something from one of the nationalities north of the border, one of dem der Newfies, from around 2001 or so:


My America includes LGBT families.


someone
should give me a geography lesson.

my goodness I hucked up

*someone should give him a geography lesson.

 

 



[ Parent ]
Oh, you're killing me Medz
Tell me, was that on purpose? :-P

<3 Sam

[ Parent ]
it was late

 

fatigue > proofreading skills 



[ Parent ]
I agree with Samie D
"Hucked up" was pretty good!

My America includes LGBT families.

[ Parent ]
Honestly...

How many Huck supporters are going to realize that these were gaffs? The response of many on the right to issues such as immigration or terrorism seems to be Pavlovian rather than rational. What he's shilling, they're buying -- logic be damned.

Plus I doubt many Huck supporters read the NYT.



...

 

"Plus I doubt many Huck supporters read the NYT."

 

Plus, I doubt that many Huck supporters read the NYT.

 

Fixed 



[ Parent ]
That's unfair.

They read the only book that matters:

1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth....






Claim to fame: Posted first PHB diary to be demoted


[ Parent ]
OK,,,they just suffer from poor reading...
...comprehension skills.  Ooops, they go to church and have it read to them.   I'll stick with the they don't read

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.

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