Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says that he will keep America secure if he is elected President. How, though, does Huckabee intend to keep America secure if he doesn’t bother to even look at the intelligence reports about threats to the nation that are available for him to consider?
One full day after news about the National Intelligence Estimate revealing that Iran has no active nuclear weapons program was released and was the top story in all the major news outlets, Mike Huckabee was asked for his opinion. Huckabee told the reporters that he had never heard about it. A day after that, Huckabee was asked for his opinion about the National Intelligence Estimate again. This time, Huckabee said he had heard about it, but didn’t know enough to answer any questions about it.
Apparently, Mike Huckabee thinks that it’s just fine for a President to be uninformed, not to read intelligence reports, or even to read the newspaper. We’ve already had two terms of a Republican President with that attitude, and we don’t need another.
(Source: ABC News, December 9, 2007)
