Huckabee: Syrian refugees may just want ‘cable TV’ [View all]

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Source: Maddow blog



When it comes to the refugee crisis, U.S. presidential candidates are all over the map. Some, including Martin O’Malley, have called for a generous American response in which we accept at least 65,000 Syrian refugees by the end of next year. Others have spoken of taking in refugees, but in smaller numbers, while a third category of candidates have said American shores should be closed, no matter the severity of the crisis.

But just in recent days, a fourth category has emerged: presidential candidates who seem to think the refugees themselves are bad, dangerous people, worthy of scorn. The Washington Post reported yesterday:

Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, whose presidential campaign has become a crusade for “religious liberty” and the rights of the unborn, told social conservatives this weekend that they should be skeptical of allowing more Syrian refugees into the United States.

“Are they really escaping tyranny, are they escaping poverty, or are they really just coming because we’ve got cable TV?” Huckabee asked, in an audience question-and-answer session at the conservative Eagle Forum conference in St. Louis. “I don’t mean to be trite.”

Read more: http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/huckabee-refugees-may-just-want-cable-tv?cid=sm_fb_maddow

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Just as Jesus would have said!

The Huckster again proves he has as much to do with Christ's message as my ass.





Lousy freeloaders! Get a job!

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