Former Governor Mike Huckabee and host of “The Huckabee Show” on Fox News, continued his criticism of President Obama in his latest monologue Saturday night.
Reacting to decisions by President Obama before and after the crisis in Crimea, Huckabee suggested the U.S. was the shakiest gun in the West under President Obama, a far cry from its past strength. He said that pundits and pols are focusing too much on the question of what President Obama could do now, but instead “should be focusing on what should have been done during the past five years” running up to the crisis.”
“Vladimir Putin didn’t just wake up one morning and impulsively order thousands of his elite airborne soldiers to drop in on Crimea to have a look-see at the port,” Huckabee said. “He made a calculated gamble that the Barack Obama — who fumbled the ball in Syria worse than Peyton Manning’s opening snap at the Superbowl — and turned his ‘red line’ into a red face.”
Huckabee went on to list the many foreign policy blunders attributed to the Obama administration, including Syria, Egypt, Iran and his comments about “flexibility” to Medvedev. “His only flexibility seems to be with the truth,” Huckabee railed.
As far as why Europe isn’t responding to Obama’s proposed sanctions, its the administration’s energy policies that have contributed to our weak hand. “Putin has his boots on their necks by way of having his hands on their thermostats,” referring to the significant amount of oil Europe relies upon from Russia.
Last week, Huckabee told “A Tale Of Two Superpowers” during which he compared and contrasted the resolve of the U.S. under President Obama, with its enemies. While proposing to slash our defense budget, or implement cuts that disproportionately fall on the backs of our hardest working military personnel, the president preserves spending for politicians’ friends who profit from defense contracts and on entitlement programs for the least-productive of our society.
Whether or not it is moral to provide for the security of those who cannot or simply will not, doesn’t have any baring on the fact it isn’t wise to do when we cannot even provide for the basic safety of our nation. Unlike social welfare, it is an actual proper role of government to provide for the defense of its citizens.
