Massive Whining Issues From Republicans After Obama Criticizes Them for Refusing Refugees
Republican presidential candidates Mike Huckabee and Ted Cruz are whining furiously after President Obama had the nerve to criticize them for their mean-spirited calls to turn away Middle Eastern refugees and anti-Muslim fear-mongering.
“Our president instead of going full bore against ISIS seems to be more intent on going after Republican governors,” former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said in a telephone interview with CBSN on Wednesday.
Apparently, thousands of US airstrikes doesn’t count as “going full bore against ISIS.” (Of course, Huckabee is just repeating a dishonest, false meme that plays over and over in right wing media, that Obama isn’t taking any action against ISIS.)
A day earlier, President Obama slammed GOP candidates for who are saying the U.S. shouldn’t accept Syrian refugees. Talk of keeping out refugees “needs to stop,” Mr. Obama said during a trip to the Philippines. “I cannot think of a more potent recruitment tool for ISIL than some of the rhetoric that’s been coming out of here during the course of this debate.”
Huckabee called the president’s remarks “tone deaf.” Americans who are concerned about incoming refugees “just don’t want to see in the streets of America what we’ve seen in the streets of Paris,” the Republican candidate said. He also said that Mr. Obama is “more interested in protecting reputation of Islam than American people.”
Back in Washington, Huckabee’s primary opponent Sen. Ted Cruz also took issue with Mr. Obama’s “personal insults.”
“Let me suggest something, Mr. President, if you want to insult me you can do it overseas, you can do it in Turkey, you can do it in foreign countries, but I would encourage you, Mr. President, come back and insult me to my face,” Cruz said.
Look out, we have a tough guy over here.
