In the last few days we have seen three republicans throw their hat into the 2016 presidential race.
These three presidential hopefuls join a long list that
is running for the republican candidacy.
Let’s look at the three: we have Mike Huckabee, a Baptist
pastor that was governor of Arkansas, the same state from which Bill Clinton
comes from, Carly Fiora, former CEO of HP, and Ben Carson, a bright
neurosurgeon.
So far their qualifications seem impressive. Unfortunately
we have to start looking at some of the things they have saying. As a defender
of the first amendment of the Bill of Rights in which we have free speech they
are entitle to their opinion. And just like I’m doing here their words also can
give us some insight, some idea how qualified they are to be president. They
seem to think that using hateful speech toward the president and/or Hillary Clinton
and/or Bill Clinton will make them more electable.
Let us be more specific.
Mike Huckabee, has said about Obama that everything he
does is against what Christians stand for, and he's against the Jews in Israel,
but Muslims 'know they have his undying, unfailing support. It seems that
Huckabee has left out the fact that Obama has attacked with drones Muslims in
Pakistan, Yemen, and bombed Isis over and over. I guess Isis and all the other
Muslims Obama has killed are
not the real thing.
He also said in a radio interview that “There’s nothing
more honorable than serving one’s country and there’s no greater heroes to our
country than our military,” he responded, “but I might suggest to parents, I’d
wait a couple of years until we get a new commander-in-chief that will once
again believe ‘one nation under God’ and believe that people of faith should be
a vital part of the process of not only governing this country, but defending
this country.”
Carly Fiorina, he record, which she has overlooked to
tell her fellow republicans is nothing to brag about. She took over Compaq,
against the advice of the whole industry, while other companies were getting
out of computer hardware all together. For this she was fired as CEO of Hewlett-Packard.
Of course she did not go open handed, at that level nobody does. She walked
away with 21 million for almost running the company to the ground. She has blamed the California drought on environmentalists. From day one
she has been attacking Hillary Clinton, we can say that she seems obsessed with
her. She even included a Hillary Clinton’s ad when she said she was running for
president.
Ben Carson, has said a few things that I’m including
here:
1. “There comes a time when people with values simply
have to stand up. Think about Nazi Germany. Most of those people did not
believe in what Hitler was doing. But did they speak up? Did they stand up for
what they believe in? They did not, and you saw what happened.”
2. “I mean, [America is] very much like Nazi Germany. And
I know you’re not supposed to say ‘Nazi Germany,’ but I don’t care about
political correctness. You know, you had a government using its tools to
intimidate the population. We now live in a society where people are afraid to
say what they actually believe.”
3. “ObamaCare is the worst thing that has happened in
this nation since slavery. In a way, it is slavery, because it is making all of
us subservient to the government.”
4. “Because 9/11 is an isolated incident. Things that are
isolated issues as opposed to things that fundamentally change the United Sates
of America and shift power from the people to the government. That is a huge
shift. You have to take a long-term look at something that fundamentally
changes the power structure of America.”
5. “I think what’s happening with the veterans is a gift
from God to show us what happens when you take layers and layers of bureaucracy
and place them between the patients and the health care provider. And if we
can’t get it right, with the relatively small number of veterans, how in the
world are you going to do it with the entire population?”
6. “My thoughts are that marriage is between a man and a
woman. It’s a well-established, fundamental pillar of society, and no group —
be they gays, be they NAMBLA, be they people who believe in bestiality — it
doesn’t matter what they are — they don’t get to change the definition.”
7. “Certainly there’s the potential because you have to
recognize that we have a rapidly increasing national debt, a very unstable
financial foundation, and you have all these things going on like the ISIS
crisis that could very rapidly change things that are going on in our nation.
And unless we begin to deal with these things in a comprehensive way and in a logical
way there is no telling what could happen in just a couple of years.”
8. “I think most people when they finish that course,
they’d be ready to go sign up for ISIS.”
9. “Anyone caught involved in voter fraud should be
immediately deported and have his citizenship revoked.”
10. “So if there were a container of contaminated urine,
and somehow it managed to find its way to someplace a lot of damage could be
done. Someone comes up to a lab worker. He knows he’s got the urine. ‘How would
you like to have a million dollars?’ … Such things have been known to happen.”
When we read and hear what this three candidates say one
has to wonder if they are feeding meat to the wolves in the party, or if they
are serious. These things completely take them out as middle of the road
contenders, their speech is hateful, it says nothing about what they would do
to make the country better, they seem to have blood running down their fangs.
I have some republican friends who don’t seem to be hateful,
are not against gay marriage, who are not in favor extreme believers, who seem
to be middle of the road people. I’ve told in more than one occasion that they
don’t fit, they don’t belong in the republican party, that the party has been
hijacked by extremists, just like many of us believe that Islam has been
hijacked by a few minority of extremists.
I also once heard that made me stop and think,
the person said if only a small minority of extremists have hijacked Islam,
where are all the others saying no to that. And we have to stop and think where
are all those voices of opposition to those extremists, either they are in fear
or they are riding on those extremists tails. I think that can be applied to
those so called moderate republicans, or who believe that they are moderate.
Where are you that the Patriot Act is about to renewed with all the sections in
which we have given up unknowingly, or knowingly, our freedoms? Are you
represented by the evangelicals who call same sex marriage bestiality? Are you
a tea bagger who wants to cut everything including those programs that benefit
us or our family members, such as Social Security, Medicare, unemployment benefits?
If there is silence, you are no different than the moderate Muslims, but please
don’t call yourself a moderate republican, because you are not.