Posted on 12/22/2007 12:47:23 AM PST by JohnHuang2
Mike Huckabee said Friday that he does not remember if he even wrote the line in a controversial journal article calling President Bush’s foreign policy “arrogant bunker mentality,” after the article drew criticism from Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice.
The Republican presidential candidate’s piece in the January-February edition of Foreign Affairs said that Bush’s foreign policy is “counterproductive,” and urged a shift in diplomatic tone. GOP rival Mitt Romney afterward condemned the comments and Rice called them “simply ludicrous” on Friday.
But Huckabee told reporters aboard a bus in Iowa that he was not the sole author of that piece.
“I wrote most of the article, but I had help … There was probably eight or 10 people involved,” he said, explaining that it went through several re-writes.
Even if Huckabee didn’t write the “bunker mentality” line, he’s still espoused that criticism before.
The former Arkansas governor said at a Center for Strategic and International Studies event in September that the “administration’s bunker mentality has been counterproductive, both at home and abroad. They’ve done a poor job of communicating and consulting with other countries, just as they have, frankly, with the American people.”
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That’s what you get for outsourcing your policy papers to the DNC, Gomer!
It wasn’t Shakespeare or Dryden or Pope. My money’s on Huckabee.
Huckabee might as well be a Demoncrat when it comes to foreign policy. What a maroon.
Huckabee gave a speech in September, referring to the Bush Admin’s “bunker mentality” — is he not aware of what he saying?
Huckabee takes aim at Bush’s ‘bunker mentality’ (From September 2007)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1939302/posts
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee criticized the Bush administration’s war against terrorism Friday, delivering a bold and potentially risky speech that could establish the former Arkansas governor as the maverick among top Republican candidates and test his party’s loyalty to President Bush.
“This administration’s bunker mentality has been counterproductive both at home and abroad,” Huckabee said in opening a broad indictment of Bush’s style and policy.
Can't wait for his Dean Scream moment when he flops after all the "shoe-in" talk.
Well, yes, my mother used to be a speechwriter on the staff of a CA RINO governor, and a team usually would draft any speech. He’d tell them what to write and approve/disapprove any suggestions they had - but he always READ the damn thing first.
What a piece of work, this idiot Hickabee.
Another Huck-up.
I read that screed at the CFR website. His views on foreign affairs are at best naive, or at worse dangerous. Sounds like he had a lot of help in writing this from State Department types, i. e., all talk and no stick.
He’s a liar!
Can’t seem to remember my brain’s in a blender it’s Jello!
“I did not have sex with that woman either” said another up and coming political candidate” Hillary........
Slick Mikey!!!
Bush has REACHED OUT to more people and to say he has a “BUNKER MENTALITY” tells me Huck is a non-thinker!!
On special report last night it was either Brett Beir or Carl Cameron that brought up the fact that early in september, Huck read the line out loud in a speech.
His recall is extremely close to clintonesque.
Here is video that I found at Hot Air. The Huckster explains it all for you. What a worm!
http://hotair.com/archives/2007/12/21/video-condi-strikes-back-at-huckabees-bunker-mentality-line/
Still one vote for HUCKLEBERY?
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