ABC needs to get new reporters or editors .
He is talking about criminals and you or calling it a race issue.
How stupid do you think the American people are,

We need to shut the borders down...period.But this clown is the the guy who will do it..He is just sucking for one more vote..He will say and do any thing for a vote.

The verb you twice transcribed from Huckabee quote as "effect" is actually "affect". Quick definitions: "to effect" : "to bring about". "to affect": "to make a difference to". I'm sure Huckabee had the second meaning in mind. Thanks in advance for correcting your error.

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FREE TUITION FOR ILLEGALS - Huck before his flip.

QUESTION: What do a Radical, Islamic Muslin Jihadist and a Right-Wing American Evangelical Fanatic have in common?

ANSWER: They BOTH strongly support and religiously follow Mike Huckabee's statement that "a wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband".

I have no doubt that Huck will bring these two groups together.

Any woman with a brain and a sense of free will should be afraid - very afraid - of this Neanderthal.

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Take a hike, Mike. Huckabee is a huckster who supported illegal immigrants, but flip flopped like a fish on the beach when he runs for the presidency. Ron Paul is the most consistent and constitutional candidate for president. Vote for constitutional change. Vote for Ron Paul.

This is another example of a politician (Cheney is a great one at this) saying something false and then the news cycle moves on to another topic. If they do get called on it and have to retract the statement, less people are paying attention and still the original remarks are remembered as fact.

Pakistanis are not a race or an ethnic group. They are a nationality. But the news media doesn't care about distinctions like that when they can smear a Republican.

Don’t the Pakistani people have enough trouble right now without having one our our most prominent presidential candidates pointing a sanctimonious finger at them? Is this Huckaboy’s idea of Christian charity? How could anyone seriously think of putting this imbecile in the White House?

A knee jerk reaction. Most of the 911 terrorist were Saudis. So what do we do? Forget about them now and watch Pakastanis. Is this the kind of President he will be? A series of knee jerks with no vision.

Just when I was starting to like Mike Huckabee.. I find out he's being advised by the same "foreign policy" neocon trash, Bolton and Haas, that instigated the Bush into the war in Iraq! I'm counting down the days till Bush is out of office (and yes, I voted for him - TWICE!) and am surely not going to vote for his clone! Huckabee needs to find some new foreign policy experts... some that belive in diplomacy first - not bombs.

Huckabee is a disaster waiting to happen.
He dosen't even have a theological degree.

dena said, "Just when I was starting to like Mike Huckabee.. I find out he's being advised by the same "foreign policy" neocon trash, Bolton and Haas, that instigated the Bush into the war in Iraq!"

Dena -- it is actually worse than that. Giuliani and McCain are also advised by people of the same mindset. This is clearly an indication that the country needs to NOT elect any of those three candidates in 2008, lest we find ourselves mired in the same train-wreck foreign policy we've experienced during the past 8 years.

Besides the "affect/effect" mistake, the article's writer also misspells "baiting" (bating) and "from" (form). Maybe there are some illegal immigrants doing your spellchecking.

Well I guess someone didn't like having a link on here to the Dept of Homeland Security's website. The 2006 statistics of illegal immigrants and their country of origin breaks down like this. Starting with the most: Mexico, El Salvador, Guatemala, Philippines, Honduras, India, Korea, Brazil, China, Vietnam, and "Other Countries." "Immediately south of our border" to me means Mexico but let's throw in the other Central and South American countries. That still leaves quite a few. And the numbers you ask? Brazil was 8th on the list and averaged an estimated 18,333 per year over the past 7 years. That's quite a few more than 660. Play nice Mike.

This has racism spelled all over it. If he is concerned about Pakistani's coming across the border, he should focus on CANADA....not Mexico. Its much easier for Pakistani nationals, as members of the British Commonwealth to enter Canada. Huckabee is being unrealistic in protecting this nation and these comments are why he cannot lead us.

He is trying to appeal to the angry white voter in an attempt to preserve the US WHITE Heritage and Culture and using security concerns as the justification for it.

ABC News: Please change all 'effects' to 'affects.' Thanks. 'Affect' is the verb (example: Dry air affects my sinuses), but 'effect' is a noun, used similar to 'result' (example: The effect of the drought was to reduce crops).

I know, I know; English is so hard as a second language, isn't it?!?

You whackjobs with your "Illegal" immigrant fixation are an insult to this country's immigrant legacy. After stealing the land from the natives, the USA's only redeaming quality has been the flow of immigrants who could come from anywhere.

But a few white folks can't handle that reality when it comes with a less than pink face that doesn't uphold their values.

Huckabee is pandering to your xenophobia and hatred, just like that blowhard Lou Dobbs does. You aren't focused on "illegals" you are focused on "others" not culturally like yourselves. Just like when the Irish arrived in NY and were treated as scum, Italians, and now Mexicans.

The history of America's racism is as known as its history of war and conquest.

Hey -- anything to get headlines, I guess.

A lot of people, maybe to many are jumping on the bandwagon and accusing Mike Huckabee of playing the race card.

I hope that before you jump on this particular bandwagon you look at some of the evidence. On 7/7 mass murder was perpertrated on London's transport network by three individuals of Pakistani descent and one Jamaican convert to Islam. The person accused of masterminding the plot to blow up aircraft over the Atlantic using liquid explosives is a Pakistani who recently escaped from custody in pakistan. An individual of pakistani descent was imprisoned in the UK recently for attempting a mass casualty event using over a ton of explosives.

Look at the evidence Pakistan is a hotbed of terrorist activity. The mastermind of 9/11 was arrested, you guessed it, in Pakistan. Richard Pearl was murdered allegedly by a Briton of Pakistani descent.

Mike Huckabee is merely stating what we should all be thinking. Rightly America should be concerned with Arabs infiltrating the US. The US Government has closed the loopholes used by the 9/11 hijackers to enter the US.

Don't you think Al Qaeda realises this? and will use other nationalities if it can?

Should Huckabee get the Republican nomination, the Democrats would get religion, he being the answer to their prayers. In his 1992 contest with Dale Bumpers, Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. Other payments were given to his babysitter. In 1994, he set up the Action America group so he could give speeches for money without having to disclose the names of his benefactors. He failed to report that campaign travel payments were used to finance the use of his own personal plane. He converted a governor's mansion operating account into a personal expense account, claiming public money for a doghouse, dry-cleaning bills, panty hose and meals at Taco Bell. Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife. Friends of his and his wife set up a wedding registry three decades after their wedding so their new home could be stocked with gifts of linens, toasters and other items. He was sanctioned five times by the Arkansas Ethics Commission. The Democrats will have a field day with this guy as the Republican nominee for President.

America has a multitude of problems these days due to wrong minded foreign policy. John Bolton comes to mind after that phrase, and Newt Gingrich I wouldn't trust around the corner with a nickle. Mike is raising a ruckus in Iowa but the simple truth is that he is a former minister who I don't think will seperate church and state, and faith based intiatives should not be funded by tax dollars.

Anybody bother to factcheck this:

"The governor claims his figure -- 660 Pakistani illegals crossing the border last year -- are from CIA and Immigration reports."

Why would a former Arkansas governor have access to CIA reports?

Chris Linthwaite wrote:

"Mike Huckabee is merely stating what we should all be thinking. Rightly America should be concerned with Arabs infiltrating the US."

FYI - Pakistanis aren't Arabs.

All illegal aliens are criminals. Not one single illegal alien deserves to be in the USA. Huckabee is trying to look out for our security and the stupid media journalists try to make it a race issue. Journalists are morons.

Please God, let Mike Hickabee be the Republican candidate for President. There is so much out there in his past for the Democrats to attack him on that it could be a new thing every week for months. So all you Republicans out there, please support Mike for President. It will be the wors... i mean best decision you will ever make.

I agree, ABC News needs some new reporters. They made me click into this story because it appeared Governor Huckabee said something stupid. He did not; ABC simply wrote a race-bating story.

Huckabee, like Bush, is a Christian fundamentalist nut exactly like the Islamic fundamentalist nuts. Religious Republicans are just the American version of Al Queda. Surely Americans aren't stupid enough to put another one of those in the White House.

Just what America needs... another BIGOT.

I would never support Huckabee, but he is certainly right here. It is called "common sense." BOTH legal and illegal immigration is destroying this country - but that was the INTENT of those who drafted the 1965 immigration laws.

"They made me click into this story because it appeared Governor Huckabee said something stupid."

He DID say something stupid...he opened his mouth, didn't he?

You twist the truth so you can do your "hatchet job" on Mike Huckabee. Trying to pull him down before the Iawa primary, I see. ABC - you're a disgrace. Your "news" reporting even makes tabloids at the supermarket check out look good.

Mike Huckabee is Bill Clinton; say anything, any where and any time to appeal to the people in front of him. Huckabee is a total phony just like Bill Clinton. Iowians wake up!

If it weren't for legal immigration this country would have been replaced as a super power decades ago. If it weren't for all the brains we've drained from other countries our science and engineering skills would pale in comparison to countries like India and China...But most likely you're living in a state that thinks evolution is evil.

Hey Petee-

IAWA --- come on, get it straight. hahahaha!!!!

Huckabee is a joke. If it isn't in the Bible, the man doesn't know about it. The last thing we need is another clueless zealot in office.

It's amazing how many things these illegals have been capable of doing. First they take American jobs, then they destroy American health care. Next they cause overcrowding and a crisis in our schools. Then they cause the implosion in the sub prime mortgage market. All the while, voting illegally and forcing Americans to learn Spanish. Now we hear that they are trained assassins planning on taking over the world. The last time I heard of such fiendish plots, I was watching Pinky and the Brain.

First of all, someone (either ABC or Huckabee) needs to learn the difference between "effect" and "affect".

Secondly, the more we close our borders, the less money we make. That's what it's all about. The US won the cold war by being able to induce the Soviets to spend beyond their means to counteract our perceived threat. That's exactly what the terrorists are doing to us, and it's working. They only have to spend $1 to induce us to spend $100,000, and we can't keep that ratio up for long.

Finally, the more we have a "system" for screening people, the more it can be used against us. If we start looking intently at Pakistanis, they'll send Saudis (like they did on Sept 11th). If we look at everyone from that area of the world, they'll send Indonesians or someone else we aren't expecting. The ONLY way to be secure is to have a system that is sufficiently accurate and sufficiently random.

Only in America a half-educated Huckabee can be the front runner as a presidential candidate. Read and weep:

HUCKABEE: 660 Pakistanis crossed over illegally from Mexico last year ... this is the second largest group of illegals from the south.

FACT: There are 15 MILLION illegal Mexicans, millions of El Salvadorians and other Central Americans. Together these make up the largest segment of illegals. There are also several hundred thousand Canadians, Russians and Polish illegals. Pakistan is not among the top 30 sources of illegals.

HUCKABEE:
I received this info in a briefing .... from the CIA

Fact: LIAR, LIAR, PANTS ON FIRE !!! Huckabee's staff later reported that the source of this info is a 2006 report from DENVER POST !!!

THERE IS NOTHING WORSE THAN A LIAR EXCEPT A STUPID, UNEDUCATED LIAR I.E. HUCKABEE AKA "HUCKABEE" !!!!

open your eyes, this guy is an IDIOT and LIAR !!!!!

OMG, this guy makes Bill Clinton look intelligent. Huckabee is just a loser bigot whose 15 minutes are just about up.

I got 2 questions for you MR HUCKABEE why you said that?
Is because USA has something to do with Benazir Bhutto's death?

Here in the UK, we have many Pakistani immigrants and they are an absolute nightmare!

Many of the northern towns in the UK, which traditionally welcomed Pakistanis are now no-go areas with many social, racial and religious problems. The Pakistanis make it clear that they hate the West and they are not prepared to integrate into the wider society - they usually marry other Pakistanis in order to get them British citizenship and then they have lots of children. In the UK, many Pakistanis are now demanding that special schools are set up for Muslims. In my town, many churches have been knocked down and replaced by mosques and council workers have been told to learn Urdu. Accept them at your peril!

Huckabee will say anything to get elected. He's another George Bush with a bigger vocabulary.

To Hayguey:

You have conveniently ignored history. The Indians, Pakis are in UK because your Grandpa/Grandma were in India, looting and pillaging its resources for centuries.

question # 1:
Did your forefathers ever assimilate to the Indian culture where they were practically ILLEGAL immigrants?

Question # 2:

Did your illegal immigrant forefathers in India ever learn the local language/culture, etc?

NO THEY DID NOT!

So what if the Pakis/Indians want some remnants of their original culture?

Pakis/Indians are in UK because YOU WERE IN INDIA *** ILLEGALLY*** FOR CENTURIES!!!

So... SUCKS FOR YOU, BUDDY !!! JUST SUCK IT UP !!!!!!

So how does Elmer Fudd respond to a political situation? He warns us about illegal pakistani immigrants. LOL!!!

If this is the best candidate that the Republicans have to offer, boy are they in trouble. It is bad when his own senior foreign policy consultant is telling CNN that "he has no foreign policy credentials". This guy is no leader, he's a poster child for evangelical ignorance.

c'mon guys let's be serious. How would a guy like this would make a president? I mean he doesnot even know the full name of former prime minister BENEZIR Bhutto? He just said," Bhutto". There are many Bhuttos but the guy seems to be tottally out of touch on what's going on the world. The guy is a total disaster in this world.

Did he stand on the border and actually count 660 illegal Pakistanis entering the country? Sounds like he is in some serious need of Haldol for his Delusional Disorder.

Democrats need to help Huckabee win the Republican primaries! He could guarantee a Democrat victory. He would be a sitting duck as a presidential candidate. His natural stupidity would soon become obvious to everybody!

See Huckabee: U.S. should monitor
Pakistani's coming into the country!
Why does this comment require Two
Headlines?

I find Huckabee to be a clueless rube; a joke really. However inaccurate the portrayal of his remarks as racist may be... I'm all for misrepresenting stupid conservatives!! It's about time the media made up for their complete abdication of responsiblity over the last 7 years filled with Bush's lies, misrepresentations and crimes.

Perhaps ABCnews has learned the delightful lesson of what happens when a visibly idiotic candidate is allowed to become an activist, extremist president.

reaganfan :

The simple answer is because Huckabee's ignorance and lying about the source is so extremely unexpected of a top ranking candidate! It is just the tip of the iceberg of his basic ignorance and incredible stupidity.

In sum, something is newsworthy if it indicates a great departure from what may be expected (basic knowledge). Hence the "two headlines".

All hail the new Republican frontrunner mixing race and fear. So, what's new?

I'd never vote Republican anyway. BUT, this is not race baiting. There are A LOT of Pakistani people in this country, and it appears to be far to easy to immigrate from Pakistan. The Country seems to be sliding toward complete Islamic extremeism. Why let any of them in? I mean, why ask for trouble?

super dave: You're right his remarks are
stupid and uninformed!
But this is the candidate that the liberal media has pumped up and is in love with! Are they rooting for Romney now? The only Republicans who have a chance in the general election are
McCain and Guiliani and they get little positive coverage from the liberal media! I wonder why!

w_roos: You're obviously a Democrat so you known what racism is all about!
Isn't the Democrat Party the one that
holds Senator Robert C Byrd, former
KKK Member in such high regard?
Isn't the Democrat Party the one that
held back black people in the 1960's,
Lestor Maddox Governor of Georgia,
George Wallace, Governor of Alabama, etc!
Yeah you Democrats know a lot about
racism and the attacks on Obama that I've seen show that little has changed
since the 60's in the Democrat Party!

Reganfan-

Um,where to start...lol. First, I believe it was Mitt (How many wives did Grandpa have?)Romney who played the race card with Obama.
Second. Faux News for weeks kept up on their website the noise about Obama going to a madrassa, and that he is Muslim.
Third. Rudy (Did I say Osama? I meant Obama. Silly me.) Guiliani also stated on several occasions the mis-information about Obama being Muslim.
If you want to live in the past, then we can go back to Lincoln and Andrew Johnson who refused to address the Jim Crow laws. Funny you guys don't want to go after homegrown terrorists like the KKK or the Aryan Nations. I know, if you did, there would go your base support. The only hope Republicans have is John McCain, and that is a long shot because of the way the evangelicals have butchered him because he won't kiss their ####.

Just what America needs...another moron Republican for president who knows NOTHING about ANYTHING. Haven't you right-wing America-Haters punished the American people...and bankrupted America...enough already with Bush Jr?

Bush may have a "Bunker mentality", but
Huckabee has an "Archie Bunker mentality"

Stem cell, gun control groups paid Huckabee

Enlarge By Jeff Chiu, AP

According to state and federal public records, Mike Huckabee has pulled in more than $405,000 since 2004 from honoraria, books sales, consulting and outside income through 12 Stops, Inc. a company set up that year to manage his private sector business.

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee last year accepted $52,000 in speaking fees from a biotech giant that wants to research human embryonic stem cells, a non-profit working to expand access to the morning-after pill and a group pushing to study whether tightening gun control laws will reduce violence.
Huckabee opposes embryonic stem cell research, emergency contraception and stricter gun laws — all of which rank high on the list of deal-breakers for many of the religious conservatives whose support he's ridden to the top of the Republican presidential field.

Payments came from drug-maker Novo Nordisk, which engages in stem cell research; the Public Health Institute, which works to expand access to "morning after" contraception; and Grant Makers in Health, which is seeking to steer funding to studies of gun violence. The fees highlight the delicate line Huckabee has walked on the profitable speaking circuit.

The former Arkansas governor has used appearances before churches, universities and other groups to both expand and capitalize on his reputation as a leader in conservative Christian and public health circles.

But along the way, he's accepted honoraria from public health interests that sometimes support causes anathema to the GOP right.

FIND MORE STORIES IN: Health | Institute | Stem cell | Payments | Novo Nordisk
Huckabee "isn't afraid to speak to people who don't agree with his message or personal philosophy," said his spokeswoman Kirsten Fedewa.

She added, though, that Huckabee sticks to "limited, focused and non-political" topics such as "preventive health care or similar issues."

That answer may not satisfy some social conservatives, said Bill Lauderback, executive vice president of the American Conservative Union.

"It raises questions as to his philosophical positions if he is accepting very lucrative speaking fees from special interest groups who have a markedly different perspective on certain social issues from what he is projecting as a candidate," Lauderback said.

The speaking and book circuits helped Huckabee, whose annual salary during his decade as governor never topped $79,000, make ends meet — both before and after he left the governor's mansion

John: I believe it was and is the Clinton supporters who keep posting veiled racial comments about Mr Obama and his religion.
Wasn't it Former Senator Bob Kerry who called him Barack Hussein Obama, pointing out his Muslim middle name as if that implied that he was of the Muslim faith(or was somehow linked to Islamo-Fascists).

You may not want to believe it but the fact is that Byrd(the "former" KKK member) is still a leader in the Democrat Party today, not 100's of years ago!
Second the 60's were only 35-40 years ago! How can we learn from our mistakes if we forget the past?
In conclusion I doubt that the Party of Robert C Byrd will nominate Barack Obama
for president this year!
Prove me wrong, vote for Obama and not Hillary Clinton the wife of Former President Bill Clinton, who according to the Democrat Party B.S. Machine was the First Black President! LOL!

The media have a responsibility to practice correct spelling and grammar. The writer and editor of this piece should be ashamed of themselves!

How many more issues is Huckabee going to have to "clarify" after the fact. Seems to me that's all he does lately.

Pakistani Illegals well!
Secure those borders now! Why wait.
I do not feel there is any pill on earth anywhere that can cure a headache that some people make for others.

This is something we need to get through to politicians is that they are entitled to any opinion they wish but, they are not entitled to their own facts. Al qaeda can not be our scape goat for everthing that goes wrong. Nor can terrorists. We are already spreading enough misery I dont think we need to even consider war with pakistan.

"They hijacked" the first election with "religious values," the second with the "War on Terror" and the next with "immigration????"....LOL!! Wow, grade school politics...Scary thought if it works.....I could care less, I make enough money to be a Republican.

Cool! I guess this means my doctor and my dentist are going to blow us up! Get real! Mr. Hucksterbee wants the US to become a Conservative Christian Plutocracy..Keep us women folk home and pregnant, and everybody gets to be a Christian whether they want to or not!

I like Mike a lot and he has my vote. Making the country scared of poeple in the homeland works. At Least it did for me!