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As a GOP Presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee has mainly gotten attention this year for his support of the Duggar Family and their show on The Learning Channel, even after it came to light that their oldest son Josh Duggar had molested his younger sisters. Now that the show has finally been cancelled by the network, Huckabee is eager to shake off the taint of that long-time association.
Also, the candidate really, really wants to be on stage at the first Fox News GOP Primary debate, but Donald Trump is sucking up all the air time as well as moving up in the polls.
So to secure himself a place, Uncle Sugar decided to make a tasteless remark about President Obama and the Holocaust. So yeah, he may get into the first tier of the debate, but Huckabee has probably lost the Jewish vote forever, which is fitting because he only supports Israel until they fail so the Rapture can happen and Christians can take over everywhere. And thus we have the hypocrisy of Mike Huckabee and many in the GOP - they are not true friends of Israel in any way.
From NBC:
... Huckabee told Breitbart News on Saturday that the Obama administration's actions on the Iran deal are "naive."
"This president's foreign policy is the most feckless in American history. It is so naive that he would trust the Iranians," he said.
"By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven. This is the most idiotic thing, this Iran deal. It should be rejected by both Democrats and Republicans in Congress and by the American people," he added.
Tell Congress to do their constitutional duty & reject the Obama-Kerry #IranDeal --> http://t.co/SaIyuq4w01 pic.twitter.com/2rFJgdDHhV— Gov. Mike Huckabee (@GovMikeHuckabee) July 26, 2015
The Jewish Anti-Defamation League Released a statement:
Whatever one’s views of the nuclear agreement with Iran – and we have been critical of it, noting that there are serious unanswered questions that need to be addressed – comments such as those by Mike Huckabee suggesting the president is leading Israel to another Holocaust are completely out of line and unacceptable.
Israeli military and security officials have repeatedly said the Obama Administration has been as strong as any other American administration in keeping Israel secure. Just a year ago, during the war in Gaza, the president signed off on an additional $223 million for Iron Dome anti-missile weaponry to protect the lives of Israeli civilians.
To hear Mr. Huckabee invoke the Holocaust when America is Israel’s greatest ally and when Israel is a strong nation capable of defending itself is disheartening. The great tragedy of the Holocaust saw the Jews of Europe without allies and without power at the worst possible moment.
There is a serious debate taking place over the next five weeks within Congress over the Iran deal. We have called on all sides, regardless of whether one is liberal or conservative, to conduct that debate responsibly and civilly. That plea should apply to presidential candidates as well.
.@POTUS slams Huckabee for saying #IranDeal will "march" Israelis "to the door of the oven" http://t.co/iqvB03RdZe pic.twitter.com/4C0j4TC7Rq
— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) July 28, 2015
President Obama, traveling in Kenya, responded today:
...Obama, hitting back at former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s cringeworthy Holocaust-themed remarks about the Iran nuclear deal a day earlier, said the 2016 candidate’s comment were “part of just a general pattern we have seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad.”
“We have robust debates, we look at the facts,'' Obama said in some of his only comments regarding anything the pack of 16 GOP candidates running to replace him have said. “We just don't fling out ad hominem attacks like that because it doesn't help inform the American people.''
“Maybe it’s just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines,” Obama suggested during a press conference in Ethiopia, where he was asked a question specifically about Huckabee’s assertion that the White House’s Iran nuclear deal was tantamount to marching Israel “to the door of the oven.”
“It's not the kind of leadership that's needed for America right now,'' the President said. “These are leaders in the Republican Party … the American people deserve better. Certainly presidential debates deserve better”...
But the President's comments only led to doubling down by Mr. Huckabee:
.@GovMikeHuckabee defends comparison of Iran agreement to Holocaust. http://t.co/dhSHaMsbPM #TheFive pic.twitter.com/o3zjLQgURv
— Fox News (@FoxNews) July 27, 2015
From CNN: Huckabee Out-Trumps Trump
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee defended himself Monday after President Barack Obama slammed his comments linking the Iran deal to the Holocaust as "ridiculous" and "sad."
"What's 'ridiculous and sad' is that President Obama does not take Iran's repeated threats seriously. For decades, Iranian leaders have pledged to 'destroy,' 'annihilate,' and 'wipe Israel off the map' with a 'big Holocaust,'" Huckabee said in a statement Monday just hours after Obama spoke. "Never again' will be the policy of my administration and I will stand with our ally Israel to prevent the terrorists in Tehran from achieving their own stated goal of another Holocaust."
Huckabee has continued to capitalize on the moment, with his campaign posting a video to Facebook within hours of Obama's rebuke that earned more than 30,000 views within its 40 minutes online.
When Huckabee was begged to back down by Latino Jew Geraldo Rivera of Fox News, he doubled down even more and started raving about "staring into ovens" while visiting Auschwitz.
From Huffington Post
"Three times I've been to Auschwitz. When I talked about the oven door, I have stood at that oven door. I know exactly what it looks like -- 1.1 million people killed," Huckabee, a 2016 presidential candidate, said in an appearance on Fox News' "The Five."
Geraldo Rivera, one of the show's hosts, pushed back on the comparison.
"I love you. You would be a great president," Rivera said. "You have the temperance. You have the experience. But as a Jew -- and I have to tell you, with people who work in the Anti-Defamation League and relatives on both sides, it was inappropriate. There are some places you cannot go."
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Hillary Clinton Seizes The Moral High Ground And Slams Mike Huckabee For Holocaust Comments http://t.co/wRz1C4id9Q @politicususa #p2 #ctl
— PoliticusUSA (@politicususa) July 27, 2015
.@DWStweets calls out the Republican presidential field for not responding to Huckabee's outrageous Holocaust analogy pic.twitter.com/q9KT8ibn4t
— The Democrats (@TheDemocrats) July 27, 2015
Well, it could have been worse. Mike Huckabee could have said the President was leading little girls to the door of Josh Duggar.— Hesiod Theogeny (@Hesiod2k11) July 27, 2015
Mike #Huckabee's campaign manager: pic.twitter.com/QzE9usEjEH— TrivWorks (@TrivWorks) July 26, 2015
As a Jew, I offer this bit of advice to Huckabee: SHUT UP WITH THE HOLOCAUST METAPHORS, you meshuge goyische nudnik. http://t.co/j35n9fC1WD— Steve Silberman (@stevesilberman) July 26, 2015
Weird, Jews don't accept Mike Huckabee as lord and savior either http://t.co/49h9SdAiHV via @KailiJoy pic.twitter.com/oLpjBGSNDo
— Wonkette (@Wonkette) July 28, 2015
@GovMikeHuckabee You're joining @realDonaldTrump? Mazel tov, sir. (Look it up, as you won't have any Jewish friends to translate.)— David Sugerman (@DavidSug) July 26, 2015
. @GovMikeHuckabee didn't your son torture a dog to death— Erin Gloria Ryan (@morninggloria) July 27, 2015
thank you for the inspiring words @GovMikeHuckabee pic.twitter.com/RlmPN185FK— Horty '98 (@crushingbort) July 27, 2015
Mike Huckabee pretends to care about Jews, when he's devoted his life to a book that says he won't get his reward until they are all killed?— Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) July 26, 2015
What gets me about goyim like Huckabee is that they don't support Israel for the sake of the Jews. It's for their own wacko apocalyptic crap— Harold Itzkowitz (@HaroldItz) July 26, 2015
While US Jews support #IranDeal by a wide margin, Mike Huckabee thinks Obama is like Hitler pic.twitter.com/plVrdfcfEM— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) July 26, 2015
Not like I didn't call this six weeks ago but Huckabee's outperformed even my expectations of sickly glib evil https://t.co/aIyItZsHpg— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) July 27, 2015
"How can I get the same attention Trump is getting for calling Mexicans rapists? I got it!" @GovMikeHuckabee
http://t.co/TYm7Hlw3PC
— Jesse Berney (@jesseberney) July 26, 2015
Mike Huckabee is an example of why Christians turn away from the CHURCH. If he's a Christian what does the #DEVIL look like?— Zanetta (@therealzanetta) July 26, 2015
Mike Huckabee, an old-fashioned traveling religious preacher show, grifting for bucks with failed diabetes cures and hate. Pathetic @GOP— RiskyLiberal (@RiskyLiberal) July 26, 2015
Huck doesn't care about he Jews, he cares about the lunatic evangelicals' who want Jews in Jerusalem for 2nd coming https://t.co/9VRGDaRxHl— Middle Class Warrior (@ZeitgeistGhost) July 26, 2015
I'd say @GovMikeHuckabee should be disqualified for his latest comment, but that would mean he was somehow once qualified. So... #nope— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) July 26, 2015
Before every speech, Mike Huckabee goes through this checklist: ❒ Trivialize rape ❒ Discredit minorities ❒ Discredit women ❒ Refer to Nazis— JRehling (@JRehling) July 26, 2015
My favorite Bible story is the one where Jesus made an offensive Holocaust comparison in order to score cheap political points. #Huckabee— Jeff Tiedrich (@jefftiedrich) July 27, 2015
Here's Mike Huckabee at the meeting of folks working to speed up Rapture by starting nuclear war in the Middle East. pic.twitter.com/H2cLO6QcOl— imfabulous (@imfabulous13) July 26, 2015
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