Mike Huckabee's outlandish birther posturing

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2011-03-02 10:32 AM

Schmidt
Colorado Springs, CO
Posts: 1058

Mike Huckabee is pandering to the birthers in an attempt to bolster his popularity as a Republican Presidential candidate in 2012. Politics Daily reports:

Huckabee, who hosts a weekly show on Fox News, said on WOR's Steve Malzberg Show that Obama, "having grown up in Kenya, his [Obama's] view of the Brits, for example, very different from the average American." Asked about the so-called birther dispute -- persistent claims Obama was not born in the U.S. -- Huckabee said, "I would love to know more" about the president's background. "What I know is troubling enough."

He said Obama's decision to remove a bust of Winston Churchill from the Oval Office was "a great insult to the British." But "if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya, with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution [uprising against British colonial rule] is very different than ours, because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather."'

A Huckabee spokeperson later said the Huckabee "misspoke." It seems like a lot of Fox News pundits "misspeak" nowadays, but they seldom go back and correct themselves on the air. And it is quite a "misspeak" when he directly ties it to the colonial rule in Kenya. How could that possibly be a "misspeak?" I don't see how Huckabee could confuse Indonesia with Kenya in a long narrative tied to the Kenyon Mau Mau revolution...and inuendos about British imperialists persecuting his father. I'm sorry but a simple "misspeak" excuse by a spokesperson doesn't cut it with me.

Oh and that bust of Churchill that Obama moved from the Oval Office? He replaced it with a bust of Abraham Lincoln. But this was done before Obama's inauguration as part of the usual changeover operations, something that every president does putting his own stamp on the Oval Office. And that was over two years ago so why is Huckabee bringing that up again? And why is he tying that to Kenya? This is not a "misspeak" that is innocent. Rather it seems to me to be a deliberate attempt to not only align himself with the birther movement but also to embarrass Obama before his state visit to the UK in May. Two years ago some Brits raised sensitivities about Obama removing the Churchill bust at that time until it was understood that he replaced the bust with one of Lincoln.

The bust of Churchill was loaned by Tony Blair to the previous President Bush who liked it. Is every President supposed to hang onto all the office decoration "likes" of the previous President? Is Churchill more important to Americans than Abraham Lincoln?

This is the kind of petty crap that Republicans campaign on. Huckabee didn't mention the Lincoln bust, but he sure was able to raise again the question of his birth place, making outlandish claims that only the birthers can appreciate, and at the same time dig out stuff from the past to question his views towards the British. Nice timing Mike...you fit in well with the Fox News Republican propaganda machine.

2011-03-02 09:20 PM

CARLITOS BAM-BAM
Dallas, TX
Posts: 897

Yeah, where the hell is Huckabee going with all this?....he was suppossed to be main-stream still, eh...you know Bob Dole-like...as opposed to Newty and Rushy -like. The Republican pres nomination field is a George Wallace in the making....that's who the Tea Party wants...and you know who Wallace's running mate was in 1968? Gen. Curtis "Bomb Cuba" LeMay....it would be the dream ticket for today's reptile-cons.

Paying attention to today's politics is asking for trouble....it's a timewarp back to both the 1860s and 1960s. The language used by conservatives is verbatim the same. Take out the words "Civil Rights" and "Negroes" and replace them with "healthcare reform" and "liberal/socialist" and entire speeches could be repeated.

Remember: DO IT FOR YOUR DEAD PRESIDENT! THE 1964 CIVIL RIGHTS ACT (PART 3) The Final Journey

“A left-wing monster has risen up in this nation. It has invaded the government. It has invaded the news media. It has invaded the leadership of many of our churches. It has invaded every phase and aspect of the life of freedom-loving people. It consists of many and various and powerful interests, but it has combined into one massive drive and is held together by the cohesive power of the emotion, setting forth civil rights as supreme to all. But, in reality, it is a drive to destroy the rights of private property, to destroy the freedom and liberty of you and me.” - Gov. George Wallace (D-AL), July 4, 1964 (“The Civil Rights Movement: Fraud, Sham, and Hoax,” George Wallace 2009)

Anyways, we're in bad shape...
And I'm not handling the Big Darkness well.
Just look at what it's done to Charlie Sheen. He went from being a Hard Partying Hollywood misfit to Mystical Banjo playing full blown mega-mania in a matter of months. That's where we are all headed...Over the Edge...and for most of us it won't involve porn stars and blow.

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