Huckabee: Syrian refugees may just want ‘cable TV’
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
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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That SOMETHING is called birth.
manages to outdo himself.
Partisan divides emerge when considering whether the U.S. should take in some of the refugees. Overall, 55% favor that and 44% oppose it. Most Republicans are opposed (55%) while Democrats (65%) and independents (55%) are mostly in favor. Those who think the U.S. bears some of the responsibility for the crisis are more apt to favor taking in refugees, with 71% in that group saying they favor allowing refugees to come to the U.S., compared with just 35% of those who say the U.S. is not responsible for the crisis.
http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/14/politics/cnn-poll-migrant-crisis/
The full poll result is at: http://www.cnn.com/2015/09/14/politics/migrant-crisis-refugees-poll-cnn-orc/index.html
Sarcasm noted.
However, in the eyes of the GOP base, if the refugees 'get a job' they transform themselves from "lousy freeloaders" to "job stealers". Their base is not going to like them either way. Hence the conservative preference for the refugees to 'know their place' and just spend a FEW more years in underfunded desert refugee camps that are NIMBY.
