Clinton slams Huckabee's Holocaust comments as 'offensive'

DES MOINES, Iowa — Hillary Clinton on Monday called Mike Huckabee’s remark about how President Obama’s nuclear deal with Iran would send the Israelis “to the ovens” “offensive” and said it had gone too far.

“Comments like these are offensive and have no place in our political dialogue. I am disappointed and I am really offended personally,” Clinton said after touring a transit station in Des Moines. “I know Governor Huckabee. I have a cordial relationship with him. He served as governor of Arkansas. But I find this kind of inflammatory rhetoric totally unacceptable.”


In an interview with Breitbart News published Saturday, Huckabee said that Obama is “naive” in trusting Iran to uphold its part of the deal. “By doing so, he will take the Israelis and march them to the door of the oven.”

“One can disagree with the particulars of the agreement to put a lid on the nuclear weapon’s program of Iran, and that is fair game. But this steps over the line and it should be repudiated by every person of good faith and concern about the necessity to keep our political dialogue on the facts and within suitable boundaries,” Clinton added on Monday.

Huckabee is not backing down from his comments, pumping out a series of tweets featuring quotes from Iranian leaders about Israel, and sending fundraising emails off of Obama’s reactions to his comments.

While traveling to Ethiopia, Obama described Huckabee’s comments as “part of a general pattern that you’ve seen that would be considered ridiculous if it weren’t so sad.”