The rhetoric among presidential candidates especially those in the GOP seeking to secure a spot in next month’s first primary debate appears to be an attempt to out-Herod Herod, or its modern day equivalent: to out-Trump Trump.
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee this past weekend said that, in pushing for a deal to disarm Iran, President Barack Obama “will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven,” a reference to the process Nazis used to kill Jews in death camps during World War II.
“The particular comments of Mr. Huckabee are, I think, part of just a general pattern we’ve seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad,” Obama said at a press conference in Ethiopia Monday. “Maybe this is just an effort to push Mr. Trump out of the headlines, but it’s not the kind of leadership that’s needed for America right now.”
