Okay, Mike Huckabee is an asshole. Viz:
BILOXI, Miss. (AP) — Republican presidential candidate and self-described ‘’recovering foodaholic'’ Mike Huckabee told Southern governors Saturday that an obesity epidemic could cause serious problems for the American economy, and even for national security.
‘’Today we hear a lot about the war on terror, how we need to fight it,'’ said Huckabee, who lost 110 pounds several years ago when he was governor of Arkansas. ‘’Let me ask this question: Who’s going to fight it in the future if we’re a generation so sick that we don’t have the capacity to show up for work?'’
Obesity != zomgterrorists, you moron.
What the fuck?! I can’t believe anyone votes for these people anymore. Hell, I can’t believe anyone can still listen to them with anything even remotely resembling a straight face. This is stupidity so profound it borders on the criminal. I can’t believe anyone that idiotic is still actually capable of sustaining life without medical apparatus.
If these guys weren’t politicians they’d be forcibly institutionalized for being complete crackpots.
Huckabee Warns of Obesity Epidemic - New York Times (Registration required. Bugmenot.)
Full article posted after the jump in case the link borks in the future.
Also: There is no such thing as an obesity epidemic. There is, however, an asshattery epidemic. You dont hear anyone calling those guys risks to national security, though, which is pretty ironic, considering that they’re the greatest threat to national security that we’ve ever had. Hopefully, this dumbass box of hammers will will recover from his “foodaholism” by starving to death and that’ll be one less bag of cocks to worry about.
If ever we needed a revolution…
(wait, I can explain…)