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Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has had, shall we say, a very interesting week while promoting his book, "A Simple Government: Twelve Things We Really Need from Washington (and a Trillion That We Don't!)."
Monday: When Huckabee was asked about President Obama's background and birth certificate on Steve Malzberg's radio show, he responded with this much-talked-about answer, "I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American."
Tuesday: Huckabee released a statement on his PAC website, saying: "I simply misspoke when I alluded to President Obama growing up in 'Kenya' and meant to say Indonesia."
Wednesday: Two days after Huck's inaccurate statement about President Obama growing up in Kenya came another much-talked-about comment about the president: "I do think he has a different worldview and I think it is, in part, molded out of a very different experience. Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings and, you know, our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas."
Friday: To cap off the week, news came out that Huckabee took on Hollywood. When conservative radio host Michael Medved asked Huckabee about actress Natalie Portman having a child out of wedlock (even though she and the father are engaged to be married), Huck answered: "[O]ne of the things that's troubling is that people see a Natalie Portman or some other Hollywood starlet who boasts of, 'Hey look, you know, we're having children, we're not married, but we're having these children, and they're doing just fine.' But there aren't really a lot of single moms out there who are making millions of dollars every year for being in a movie."
In a statement this afternoon, Huckabee clarified: "Natalie is an extraordinary actor, very deserving of her recent Oscar and I am glad she will marry her baby's father. However, contrary to what the Hollywood media reported, I did not 'slam' or 'attack' Natalie Portman, nor did I criticize the hardworking single mothers in our country."
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huckabee is a shameless liar and completely ignorant of both facts and history !!! he must know that President Obama was born in Hawaii !!! how could he not ??? but what's more disturbing is his assertion that Obama somehow shares the anti-British, anti-colonialist views of his father and grandfather !!! does he not know that our so-called "founding fathers" fought a "Revolutionary War" against the BRITISH CROWN and that KING GEORGE saw the rebels as nothing but TRAITORS and TERRORISTS !!! is huckafool saying that we were wrong to seek "independence" from England ??? is he saying that Black Africans had no right to "take back" their "homeland" from the British colonialist ??? is he saying that FREEDOM and INDEPENDENCE are reserved for WHITE PEOPLE ??? huchafool should send a formal apology to our President and declare PUBLICLY that he will not run for president and that he will not make anymore racist comments !!!
The Huckabbee is only doing the same things (saying stupid things) that Joe Biden did for years. So, its obvious, he's only VP material.
Huck grew up in that part of the country that doesn't let the truth get in the way of a good story. (or a bad one.)
The floor of that elite forest of presidential timber is littered with GOPTP twigs. The smartest thing the GOP could do is cut all ties with the TP and relegate the ones that managed to fool enough people to get elected to the back of the bus where they belong. Their lack of knowledge about how government works is becoming an embarrassment.
It's hard not to notice that as time goes by the true character of the GOPTP is seeing the light of day and has been found to be wanting.
This doofus is a mindless idiot...period.
I never realized he was such a racist?