Huckabee, Bhutto And The Mexican Border
Contrary to popular belief, vertical stripes are not necessarily slimming. Just look at this Huckabee family photo from the good ol’ gubernatorial days! Yikes. Even the inexplicable elbow patches don’t distract from the fattiness of this clan.
Of course Mike Huckabee has since become fit, trim, in shape and ready to participate in the 2008 presidential marathon. Don’t know about the rest of the ‘bee hive; they may very well still be strapping on the all-you-can-eat feedbags, but at least Mikey is certainly down to fighting weight. A big loser indeed (let’s hope.)
However, despite having lost some major inches and a pound or ton, there still remains a considerable amount of work to be done on that fat head of his.
After Pakistani opposition leader, democracy advocate and former prime minister Benazir Bhutto was assassinated and her supporters suicide-bombed to bits yesterday, Huckabee, after apologizing for what had happened (whoops!), went on to explain how this tragedy emphasizes the urgent need to continue fighting terrorism in Pakistan build a fence to stop Mexican immigrants from entering the United States.
Well, that certainly was a clutchless gear shift from first into reverse!
Asked what the hell a border fence between the U.S. and Mexico has to do with Bhutto or Pakistan, Huck said that security at the southern United States border was dangerously weak and that “we have more Pakistani illegals coming across our border than all other nationalities except those immediately south of the border.”
Not quite true according to the Department of Homeland Security, which claims far more illegal immigrants come from other countries. But regardless of such trivia, I still don’t quite get the correlation.
Nor did others, apparently, so he had some more ’splainin’ to do. That was, after all, quite a clumsy segue from the subject of Bhutto’s assassination to the Mejicano-Gringo border fence.
When further questioned, he said:
“The fact is the immigration issue is not so much about people coming to pick lettuce or make beds. It’s about people that can come with a shoulder fired missile and can do serious damage and harm to us, and that’s what we need to be worried about.”
What does building a fence from sea to shining sea betwixt the United States and Mexico (gated for lettuce pickers and bed makers, of course) have to do with keeping Pakistani shoulder-firing missile bearers at bay? And what connection can possibly be made between Bhutto’s assassination, which was, of course, the issue he was presumably addressing, and barricading our southern border?
The guy is an idiot. Thinner now, perhaps, but without question still fat-headed.
mike huckabee, benazir bhutto, bhutto assassination, immigration, border fence, presidential candidates, 2008 election
December 29th, 2007 at 6:58 am
Right you are about the Huckster. It seems that everyday’s paper brings yet another example (or examples) of his intellectual inadequacy. Methinks he should go back to preaching to narrow-minded religious extremists, where being stupid is a virtue rather than a handicap.
December 29th, 2007 at 12:46 pm
Amen, brother Doug! I would hope, though, that he’s better with directions when it comes to the heaven and hell thing, lest his congregation be sorely disappointed upon arrival. This is the guy who thought that Afghanistan was east of Pakistan …
December 29th, 2007 at 2:03 pm
“Contrary to popular belief, vertical stripes are not necessarily slimming.”
Doug,
You are so funny! I loved this post! I was laughing out loud as I read it. You have such a way with words.
“that he’s better with directions when it comes to the heaven and hell thing, lest his congregation be sorely disappointed upon arrival.”
OMG! that is hilarious!
December 29th, 2007 at 2:16 pm
Ugh. What an idiot. On the plus side he’s outed himself as a ‘tard before the elections so it’s easy to mark him off our list as a possibility.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:22 pm
Thanks, rainlillie! Marry me.
December 29th, 2007 at 2:26 pm
Kyla - You’re right, he is easy to mark him off our list as a possibility. The problem is that “our” list is far different than his fellow ‘tard supporters’, who seem to be everywhere these days for some inexplicable reason. Still, he’s funny.
December 30th, 2007 at 2:15 pm
Great article. I think your afraid of the Huckster. A republican you like might ruin your new year. Great humor too. Good Luck
Paul
December 30th, 2007 at 7:28 pm
My apologies for a handful of comments that weren’t posted, that is in part my bad. But not all my fault. Some comments are suddenly as of late being blocked as spam which I have to then moderate (frustrating, and ought not happen), and I inadvertently deleted some of them … my apologies. I’ll be more careful next time, until this glitch hopefully gets fixed. I’m having to de-spam my own comments, in fact, on my own blog, even this one.
January 13th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
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February 12th, 2008 at 4:00 pm
I don`t like the way you talk about people I think that you are wrong for that and I know some times that it be funny when you talk about people some time but not all the time and it is not funny about the people that you are talking about now and rainlillie that is not funny you up there talking about how that is funny and it is not funny are you that big that you think that is funnny and all I got to say that you need to find some thing better to say about people because if you have any thing to say good about some body you don`t need to say any thig at all.
February 12th, 2008 at 7:44 pm
Believe me, TB, there is very little about Huckabee that I find funny. Scary may be a better word, whether fat or thin. But thanks for the opinion, of course you’re entitled to your own as are we all.
March 5th, 2008 at 10:38 pm
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