Huckabee: ‘Running For Office Is Sort Of Like Being Waterboarded’
Huckabee: ‘Running For Office Is Sort Of Like Being Waterboarded’
This morning, CNN ran a story “tracking the strain furious campaigning puts on the human body” for the presidential candidates. During the segment, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee joked that his campaign schedule is not providing enough time to sleep and that, for him, is “like being waterboarded”:
HUCKABEE: I’m finding just out how long I can go sleep deprived. You know, running for office is sort of like being waterboarded, I think.
Watch it:
A recent CNN article on the same subject also noted Huckabee’s comments and added: “He was only half-kidding.” But waterboarding is torture, illegal under both U.S. and international law, and certainly nothing to joke about.
Unfortunately, Huckabee is not the first Republican presidential candidate to compare lack of sleep and torture in jest. Last year, former New York City mayor (and current waterboarding supporter) Rudy Giuliani called liberals “silly” for describing “sleep deprivation” as torture, joking that “on that theory, I’m getting tortured running for president of the United States.”
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This person is clearly a moron.
Oh, wait a minute…
He’s a republican - of course he’s a moron.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pmIs this the same twit who compared going on a diet like being a concentration camp run by Democrats?
What is wrong w/ these folks?
On the other hand, it sure explains why the GOOP is disintegrating before our very eyes.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:25 pmAnyone wanna bet that Huckelberry and McPander get into a pissin’ match on the campaign trail and start trying to brag about who would be willing to waterboard someone faster?
February 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pmHow “Christian”.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:31 pmWords are cheap. Hurting your fellow man is not something that comes naturally unless you’re a sadist or a brainwashed terrorist.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:32 pmIn my opinion when Republicans mock death they mock God.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:34 pmRemember, his “cross” was just an empty bookcase.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:37 pmhis name is huck.
huck huckabee.
and he’s a jesus man.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pmI’m surprised the Huckster didn’t make the analogy to stress positions, ya know, like hanging on a crucifix.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:40 pmhis name is huck.
huck huckabee.
and he’s a jesus man.
Comment by joe cantwell — February 16, 2008 @ 2:40 pm
It is the people like him throughout history that have helped people become Atheists, Agnostics, Pagans, and Devil Worshipers.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pmSomeone call the Wahhbulance.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:48 pmThe American military use a white phosphorus (WP) incendiary bomb against insurgents who are attacking from the northern positions around the village of Donga.
AT IT AGAIN
Tim Hetherington - US soldiers in Afghanistan
http://news.bbc.co.uk/ 1/ shared/ spl/ hi/ pop_ups/ 08/ in_pictures_tim_hetherington___us_soldiers_in_afghanistan/ html/ 1.stm
February 16th, 2008 at 2:49 pmHow would you know, you hypochristian, hillbilly dickhead?! Have you been waterboarded lately?
I propose all republicans who DON’T think waterboarding is torture should be forcibly tied down and waterboarded themselves. All of them. In fact, put it live on national TV. We’ll see if these a**holes sing the same tune afterward.
February 16th, 2008 at 2:52 pmDude, you need to see a Dentist or an Orthodontist.
A∞Ω
February 16th, 2008 at 3:00 pmIt speaks volumes that an amazing cruel lunatic such as this has actually held public office and is one of the more serious contenders for the republican Presidential nomination. My how far this country has fallen . . . and continues to fall.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pmIf Huckabee and Lie-berman find waterboarding so innocuous, why don’t they volunteer for an exhibition of the practice to demonstrate to the public how harmless it is?
February 16th, 2008 at 3:08 pm“running for office is sort of like being waterboarded, I think.”
See, there was his first factual error. Just by saying running for office is like being waterboarded means by definition, he does not think, he just opens his fat yap and says whatever comes out.
Hey Huck, waterboarding makes baby Jesus cry. You think about that.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:10 pmHaving sex with a man is sort of like having sex with a woman. I quess he and the rest of those freaks can stop sweating that issue now.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:15 pmAre these the same people that claim all life is sacred?
Oh yeah, except when it’s not.
Is there no end to the hypocrisy?
February 16th, 2008 at 3:30 pmThe Republic of Stupidity: People like John McCain and Mike Huckabee are actually people who denounce torture. John McCain actually was tortured in a Vietnam POW camp, and Huckabee explicitly defers to McCain and calls waterboarding torture.
Did you all miss the memo? McCain regularly jokes about it, but he’s dead serious about waterboarding being torture. By deferring to McCain on this issue, Huckabee is one wise dude. You guys need to be a little better informed!
February 16th, 2008 at 3:31 pm…for us.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:32 pmThe Squirrel Eater has a weird sense of humor. Until you submit to being waterboarded, you have no business making such a moronic comparison.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:33 pmGo back to playing Sweet Home Alabama. The only job you are remotely qualified for is bass player in a lame cover band at a roadhouse in Dumbassistan. Beered up, dentally challenged tweakers and clueless hosebags are your people.
I don’t see why he even keeps up the pretense of being a viable candidate.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:34 pmTake a nap, Huckster, it’s over.
Dirty Hippie, you fergot ta mention the Bible Thumper/Clutchers…
February 16th, 2008 at 3:35 pmDirty Hippie, it seem like you have no business making statement since you’ve never run for the presidency. Just saying….
Currently, there are no republicans running for president who thinks waterboarding is innocuous. McCain, Huckabee, and Paul all say waterboarding is torture. Get with the program.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:45 pmThe biblethumpers cannot find humor in the Good Book, because there isn’t. Nor is there humor in ego-driven power politics. When a slim sense of humility meets a fat sense of hubris, you get a Republican candidate.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:49 pmHMan: McCain missed the vote banning waterboarding. He’s talking one game and playing the other. Get with the program.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:49 pmHman: McCain voted against the anti-water torture bill. Or did he not bother to show up? I’m confused, and should look further- maybe you shoud too?
February 16th, 2008 at 3:54 pmThe stupidity of this man knows no bounds. Sleep deprivation, used as torture, involves being physically forced to stay awake for days on end, often with loud, obnoxious music blaring. This moron’s ’sleep deprivation’ is completely voluntary. And comparing what he’s doing to someone who, through torture, is made to believe they are dying from drowning? We all lack the sleep we need sometimes, Huck, but to compare it to the torture the Bush admin. inflicts is simply disgusting. After WW2 several Japanese people were convicted of war crimes and executed for waterboarding. So, Huck, who gets executed for making you lose a few hours sleep? And the creepy people who say joking about waterboarding is okay– you are then saying that joking about war crimes resulting in execution is an okay thing to do. Think about it instead of blindly supporting people who support or joke about torture.
February 16th, 2008 at 3:58 pmi found this AP article in my local paper the other day…
forgot to post it on the FAST thread then… this is as good as any…
Nazi model is cited for Sept. 11 cases
A U.S. cable defends seeking death penalties, using the Nuremberg trials as a comparison.
By Matthew Lee
Associated Press
WASHINGTON - The Bush administration has instructed U.S. diplomats abroad to defend its decision to seek the death penalty for six Guantanamo Bay detainees accused in the Sept. 11 attacks by recalling the executions of Nazi war criminals after World War II.
[…]
http://www.philly.com/ philly/ news/ nation_world/ 20080213_Nazi_model_is_cited_for_Sept__11_cases.html
“catapult the propaganda”…
February 16th, 2008 at 4:08 pmLet’s get back to real definitions.”Waterboarding” has been defined for decades as “Water Torture”. An occupation of a country is defined as when there is a sovereign government in place and another commands the policies and administration of the state… I think Iraq had elections- are they now a sovereign nation?
So we have become torturers and occupiers- not warriors.
Hman- your comments?
February 16th, 2008 at 4:10 pmComment by HMan — February 16, 2008 @ 3:31 pm
Sorry, but yer more than a little confused.
When Huckleberry compares campaigning w/ torture, it’s digusting and just shows how out of touch he, and you, are w/ reality. As for McPander,
http://thinkprogress.org/page/2/
Maverick Fails The Test: McCain Votes Against Waterboarding Ban
Mr. McCain, a former prisoner of war, has consistently voiced opposition to waterboarding and other methods that critics say is a form torture. But the Republicans, confident of a White House veto, did not mount the challenge. Mr. McCain voted “no†on Wednesday afternoon.
When confronted today with the decision of whether to stick with his conscience or cave to the right wing, McCain chose to ditch his principles and instead vote to preserve waterboarding:
Can’t imagine how yer reasonong works, but, hey, yer a troll. Yer not expected to amke the least bit of sense.
Clean-up on the Huckleberry/Torture thread! Jes’ foller yer nose!
February 16th, 2008 at 4:11 pmCurrently, there are no republicans running for president who thinks waterboarding is innocuous. McCain, Huckabee, and Paul all say waterboarding is torture. Get with the program.
Comment by HMan — February 16, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
Republicans would never lie to try to win an election, would they?
February 16th, 2008 at 4:11 pmthe U.S. is using NATO soldiers as mercenaries to try to counter a resurgent Taliban. Europeans are tiring of their role as an European proxy for America’s legions, and the NATO commander speaks of a NATO defeat in Afghanistan.
NATO was an alliance created to resist a Soviet invasion of Europe. The U.S. has kept an unnecessary NATO alive for 18 years as a source of troops for its foreign adventures. Europeans dislike being mercenaries for an American empire, especially one that slaughters civilians.
If the U.S. now needs foreign troops to save its bacon in these two lost wars, it should demand them from Israel. Israel is why the U.S. is at war in the Middle East. Let Israel supply the troops. The neocons who dominated the Bush regime and took America to illegal wars are allied with the extreme right-wing government of Israel.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pmComment by HMan — February 16, 2008 @ 3:45 pm
Wow, a republican who is completely out of touch with his own party’s candidates.
Who’da thought that?
Good thing there are progressive blogs around to inform him.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:19 pmBush, defeated in Iraq, defeated in Afghanistan, with Pakistan crumbling in front of his eyes, is now reduced to begging the French, whom it was such grand sport for his neocon officials to denigrate, to send soldiers to save his ass in Afghanistan.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:20 pmWhat a laughing stock Bush has made of America. What ruination this utter idiot and his supporters have brought to America. What total traitors the neoconservatives are. Every last one of them should be immediately arrested for high treason. Neonconservatives are America’s greatest enemies, and they control our government! All Americans have to show for six years of Bush’s “war on terror” is an incipient police state.
Now standing in the wings is mad John “Hundred-Year War” McCain. Will the American electorate wipe out the
February 16th, 2008 at 4:21 pmBush started a war, and now to avoid losing it Bush pays Iraqis not to attack U.S. troops!
The Sunnis and Shi’ites are stronger than ever, while the U.S. troops are worn down and demoralized from multiple lengthy combat tours that violate traditional U.S. military policy.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:23 pmJeez, guys, I’m not trolling here! I find McCain’s flop and Huck’s pander as despicable as you do. Don’t read me wrong, I’m certainly not from the Dark Side.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:24 pmIf the U.S. now needs foreign troops to save its bacon in these two lost wars, it should demand them from Israel. Israel is why the U.S. is at war in the Middle East. Let Israel supply the troops.
Comment by Anjuna Laguna — February 16, 2008 @ 4:19 pm
I don’t think this would go over too well with the few allies we have left in Afghanistan, including the Karzai government.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:27 pmOh really Huck? LET’S SEE!
February 16th, 2008 at 4:31 pmEuropeans are tiring of their role as an European proxy for America’s legions, and the NATO commander speaks of a NATO defeat in Afghanistan.
NATO was an alliance created to resist a Soviet invasion of Europe. The U.S. has kept an unnecessary NATO alive for 18 years as a source of troops for its foreign adventures. Europeans dislike being mercenaries for an American empire, especially one that slaughters civilians.
THIS IS SO TRUE - were going to leave the minute bush is out of office …stuff the idiot
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February 16th, 2008 at 4:34 pmHuckabee spent last weekend in Cayman Islands…and now he compares his travel and trips to ‘Waterboarding’.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:41 pmGod help us.
The guy is crazy, specially when he uses God more than any other candidate..he seems to think ‘waterboarding’ is a fun game.
Q. What do you call a think tank that doesn’t think?
A. A tank.
February 16th, 2008 at 4:45 pmBarack Obama’s landslide victory in Idaho exposes a significant crack in what has long been a Republican fortress
February 16th, 2008 at 4:46 pmHaving to listen to morons like Huckleberry and Drooliani is the type of torture no one should have to be exposed to……
February 16th, 2008 at 4:52 pmHave you read that Bible of yours lately Mike? You know the story where the Romans tortured that terrorist Jesus?
February 16th, 2008 at 4:58 pmThe guy is crazy, specially when he uses God more than any other candidate..he seems to think ‘waterboarding’ is a fun game.
Comment by tarazan — February 16, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
February 16th, 2008 at 5:00 pmI’m waiting for him to claim it’s actually made by Parker Bros and that it’s a game the whole family can play…….
He’s right. Huckabee running for president was torture… for us!
February 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pmRunning for office equivalent to waterboarding? I don’t think so. Living on a Lakotah reservation may be close to waterboarding. You can read more about the Republic of Lakotah’s march to freedom at TPZoo.
February 16th, 2008 at 5:02 pmHuckabee: ‘Running For Office Is Sort Of Like Being Waterboarded’
And being exposed to your stupid religious bullshit isn’t ?
February 16th, 2008 at 5:03 pmHuckabee spent last weekend in Cayman Islands…and now he compares his travel and trips to ‘Waterboarding’.
Comment by tarazan — February 16, 2008 @ 4:41 pm
Perhaps the Huckster keeps confusing “waterboarding” with “surfboarding”.
I mean, you can see the remeblance, right?
February 16th, 2008 at 5:22 pmHUCKABEE: I’m finding just out how long I can go sleep deprived. You know, running for office is sort of like being waterboarded, I think.
Umm , obviously no , you don’t “think” ; if you did , you wouldn’t have said something that insanely stupid ………….
February 16th, 2008 at 5:27 pmHuckabee: ‘Running For Office Is Sort Of Like Being Waterboarded’
He couldn’t possibly know that unless he were waterboarded. Someone should waterboard him (preferably in a toilet).
February 16th, 2008 at 5:31 pmI like to see M. Huckabee perform some of his claimed miracles when he is ‘Waterboarded’.
February 16th, 2008 at 5:50 pmHe claimed to be in miracles business and not math., when asked why is he still in the race,when his chance is real nil.
Waterboard him and bring him a cooked squirel to eat afterwards..
How about tracking the strain put on people when, say, they can’t afford health insurance and their kid gets sick and then the ghoul in the WH vetoes the bill that might have saved them. How do you suppose that compares to running an ego campaign, eh Hack?
February 16th, 2008 at 6:17 pm“I propose all republicans who DON’T think waterboarding is torture should be forcibly tied down and waterboarded themselves. All of them. In fact, put it live on national TV. We’ll see if these a**holes sing the same tune afterward.”
Comment by GL2814 — February 16, 2008 @ 2:52 pm
I was thinking the same thing…
February 16th, 2008 at 7:08 pm“Hi, I am Governor Mike Huckabee, of Arkansas and wanting to say congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo”.
If you want to know how incredibly stupid this guy is…
http://video.canadiancontent.net/ 16321139-talking-to-americans-capitol-building-is-an-igloo.html
February 17th, 2008 at 12:41 amStick with what you know, Huck. Running for office is like eating squirrels you cooked in a popcorn popper in your dorm room.
Duh……
February 17th, 2008 at 8:37 amHuckabee: ‘Running For Office Is Sort Of Like Being Waterboarded’
So, who exactly is forcing you to run for office, moron?
February 17th, 2008 at 2:47 pmNo huckabee, Running for office is sort of like selling you soul to corporations. If your republican or a blue dog Dem.
And waterboarding is in what chapter and verse of the Bible?
February 18th, 2008 at 1:28 amYet another very clear reason why this man has no business whatsoever being President, Vice President or even Chief Dog Catcher.
I’d love to see Huckabee meet in person some of the people who have actually been waterboarded for real - and no I don’t mean those folks in our military and security services who undergo it with the comfort that their comrades will stop before it goes too far, but rather people who have had the torture performed on them for real, with no safeties. Tell some of those people who survived torture by the Khmer Rouge that their torture was just like running for the US presidency. Yeah, just try that with a straight face Huckaberry and see how fast you get that grin slapped off of it.
February 18th, 2008 at 9:11 am.
LET THE NORMALIZATION OF TORTURE … BEGIN!
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February 19th, 2008 at 10:48 pm