The bottom line is that intelligence and ability have NO bearing anymore in someone's eligibility to become president. The Dumb States (Midwest and South) get to be "the deciders," and if a candidate claims to love Jeezis and hate fags and ragheads enough, they are golden. That is all it takes. Oh, that, and rednecks wanting to have a beer with him. Those are the litmus tests and nothing else matters

And this "know nothing" about international affairs, diplomacy, NIEs, etc., could end up as our next president? He makes Ron Paul look good.

Bush has been bad enough.

Romney, Guillianni, Thompson, Huckabee, and McCain
all compete for the same votes.
Ron Paul does not.

After 7 years of an uninformed, Jesus freak in the White House I'm ready for something new. Not Huchkleberry, not Clinton

Yes, too busy running his negative push polling against other republicans to keep up with the news, good Christian that he isn't.

It was bad enough that he released the man after he had been convicted of rape, along with a series of crimes all his life.

But the shame of it, and the reason why he is unfit to serve, is that he did it at the behest of a cabal of religious rightwing nuts WHO CLAIMED THE WOMAN HAD NEVER BEEN RAPED. This despite the witness testimony and the investigation report which he had at hand.

You see, the victim was a distant relative of Bill Clinton, and their partisan hatred stood in the way of her justice, and the safety of his constituency.

We've seen that kind of hatred for all these years, and want no part of it in the White house again.

Great - someone who just doesn't have time to keep up with what's happening in the news.

We've already had 7 years of a President with that problem and look at the mess we're in.

Perhaps the hardcore religious Huckabee thought that God would present him with the news via a golden parchment?

This should end the Huckabee campaign. Any candidate who can't set up and organize a staff able to identify, review and inform the candidate about a huge development with worldwide effects like the new Iran NIE is a terrible manager. There is no excuse for such a shoddy organization.

" Kuhn: I don"t know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday ...

Huckabee: I"m sorry?

Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it "

Huckabee: No.

Kuhn: Have you heard of the finding?

Huckabee: No.

After Kuhn explained the NIE's findings to Huckabee, Huckabee seemed confused about what it meant. Beyond doing nothing to resolve doubts about his foreign policy qualifications, the exchange underscores the fact that Huckabee doesn't really have much of a campaign " National Review

Why didn't governor Huckleberry learn about the new Iran report when he stayed at the Holiday Inn Express last night?

This is a guy more in tune with fairy tales than reality.

Huck ad impressed me until this parole deal. Now, we know he is more attuned to what rightwing media wants by aiding in this dastardly parole. He had ample correspondence from victims and others that protecting the health and safety of the parolee was more important than protecting the health and safety of those who had warned of this loose cannonball.

In fairness, it's possible he was distracted by something more important than national security, such as reading "My Pet Goat".

i did not find the news about the NIE to be newsworthy, and i don't fault huckabee, who has no campaign funds, for not knowing about this non-news.

what is troubling is waas' reporting on huckabee releasing from prison a dangerous rapist who subsequently killed. this story may end his chances for the presidency, and if it does not, then huckabee will have shown that he is as wily as bill.

You have to look at it this way.. With the President we have now the bar is set lower than whale shit.

The new "Pa Kettle" of Presidential candidates.....GO AWAY!

I picture small bursts of combustion from each of the Republican candidates leaving small piles of ash as their pasts come back to haunt them and they flame out on the campaign trail. Last men standing?... John McCain and Ron Paul.

Our presidential candidates are tripping over themselves trying to appear like prayer-warriors. During the last Republican debate, Huckabee vocally offered to help Giuliani answer a You Tube question about the Holy Bible. I wish one of the candidates had the guts to call the networks on their incessant public mockery of religion.

In October, when President Bush raised the specter of World War III with Iran because of its pursuit of a nuclear weapon, he knew that our own intelligence community had concluded months earlier that Iran had halted its weapons program in 2003.

This is as outrageous as it is irresponsible. It's exactly what he did in the run up to the war in Iraq in consistently exaggerating intelligence suggesting that Iraq had WMD while failing to tell the American people about intelligence concluding that it did not.

For many reasons, war with Iran is not just a bad option, it would be a disaster. So I want to be crystal clear on this: if the President takes us to war with Iran without Congressional approval, I will call for his impeachment.

The President's actions further undermine America's credibility around the world -- and the government's credibility here at home -- at a time when that credibility is at an all time low. And it injects more tension and instability into the Middle East at a time when we should be doing everything in our power to prevent that region from spiraling out of control.
Joe Biden's Comments in Iran:

Yesterday I gave a major address in Iowa outlining a plan to keep Iran from producing the material that could one day be used for a bomb -- without using force. I encourage you to take a few minutes to read that plan on my website:

http://www.joebiden.com/getinformed/speeches?id=0091

Does anyone actually believe this fellow had not heard of the release of the NIE? More likely is the possibility that he did not understand what it meant. You know, like evolution! Very sad for one of the front runners to be so ill informed on major issue of the day.

Normally at this point most sane and rational people would say he has no chance of hell and should just shut up and go away. But then again this is American politics. And being sane and rational never apply for some reason.

Aww Shuckabee was too busy campaigning?

Kind of like Bush being too busy clearing brush on his fake Crawford ranch to read a memo entitled "Bin Laden Determined to Attack U.S."

What will it take to get these numbskulls out of office?

Praise God. Another Republican Retard.

Oh Huckster,you didn't have time to read a newspaper on the road? Doesn't your campaign provide you with a laptop and wireless hook up to read any paper in the world? We've had seven years of the occupant of 1600 not reading anything.
Oh, I forgot. Computers are science based contraptions and unless it's an electric guitar, you don't do sciencs.

Walleyed, lying POS.

If he were smart like me and Clinton he would say. I have to read more about it. It has to do with national security. HoHo

Well,... damn there Mike,... you need to fire the lot of them then. It's not like you were looking too good of late anyway.

Perhaps you should consider going back to preaching?