Huckabee: ‘Running For Office Is Sort Of Like Being Waterboarded’

Think Progress: (h/t MBH) This morning, CNN ran a story “tracking the strain furious campaigning puts on the human body” for the presidential c
By Nicole Belle — February 15, 2008

Think Progress: (h/t MBH)

This morning, CNN ran a story “tracking the strain furious campaigning puts on the human body” for the presidential candidates. During the segment, former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee joked that his campaign schedule is not providing enough time to sleep and that, for him, is “like being waterboarded”:

HUCKABEE: I’m finding just out how long I can go sleep deprived. You know, running for office is sort of like being waterboarded, I think.

Really? That's what we've become, when a person seeking to be the leader of this country can joke about an illegal torture method? What is wrong with these people?

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