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Huckabee: "Running for office is like being waterboarded"

submitted by kronosposeidon

1 decade 6 years 2 months 2 weeks ago

From ThinkProgress.org: "This morning, CNN ran a story 'tracking the strain furious campaigning puts on the human body' for the presidential candidates. During the segment, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee joked that his campaign schedule is not providing enough time to sleep and that, for him, is 'like being waterboarded':

HUCKABEE: I’m finding just out how long I can go sleep deprived. You know, running for office is sort of like being waterboarded, I think.

A recent CNN article on the same subject also noted Huckabee's comments and added: 'He was only half-kidding.' But waterboarding is torture, illegal under both U.S. and international law, and certainly nothing to joke about.

Unfortunately, Huckabee is not the first Republican presidential candidate to compare lack of sleep and torture in jest. Last year, former New York City mayor (and current waterboarding supporter) Rudy Giuliani called liberals 'silly' for describing 'sleep deprivation' as torture, joking that 'on that theory, I’m getting tortured running for president of the United States.'"

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I'd like to waterboard him and scream "WHERE IS YOUR GOD NOW?!".

Total douchebag.

Upvote for Farhad's comment and the mental image of all those Burger King vs. Ronald YTMNDs it gave me.

suffering an election in the US???...I can think of at least ten better analogies.....

That's just an evil, inhuman thing to say. No one can tolerate being waterboarded. No one. It's just that awful. Being gripped by death over, and over, and over... I can't even imagine.

Being sleep deprived? Pfft. People do that *voluntarily*. A marathon of meet and greets? Fundraising dinners? Public scrutiny? Feh. I'd take all of that over actual torture any day.

After all non-Christians aren't human. They are heathens meant to burn in the lake of superheated plasma under great pressure and depths below the Earth's crust. But.. if they suddenly start believing in winged flying people living in the sky. Talking snakes. Talking burning bushes.. and barefooted half naked burlap sack wearing bearded men with powers to 'walk on water'. Then.. only then will they be deemed 'saved' and float into the sky all happy happy joy joy when 'The End' credits roll across the pin holed tapestry in the sky. You know. The tapestry which we all know so well that covers up 'day' and brings us under the cloak of darkness oh so conveniently. Because by golly-gee. If God didn't make it dark at night. How the heck'r we gunna sleep!?

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