Huck, Again

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee seems bent on challenging the crazed Charlie Sheen for the dubious distinction of most idiotic statements uttered by a public figure. Apparently not satisfied with smearing President Obama, Huckabee has turned his attention to actress Natalie Portman for having the temerity of publicly acknowledging her boyfriend and father of her expectant child. Unwed pregnancies, particularly those of celebrities, you see, pose a serious and continuing threat to the survival of the Republic.

Doing the Huck

In a radio interview, former Arkansas Gov. and erstwhile Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee posited that President Obama's liberal views differ from most Americans because he grew up in Kenya. Later the Fox commentator, through a spokesman, admitted that he misspoke, the president having been raised in Indonesia and Hawaii. Of course Mr. Obama's father was from Kenya but, as is well-known except among the willfully ignorant, Obama didn't set in Kenya until he was 20. Huckabee, I believe, was obviously pandering to the Republican base, many of whom fall in the category of the aforementioned willfully ignorant, birthers and assorted other numbnuts, who question whether Obama was actually born in the United States.

Huckabee's Warning

Former GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee warns his fellow Republicans that any attempt to demonize the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama would be "a fatal mistake." The former Arkansas governor noted that with Obama's candidacy the country was getting "to a point where we did not see his color but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail.When people are really hurting — and they are right now — they're not looking at a person's race." This is a remarkable statement by a member of a political party whose success over the last 40 years has been based primarily on exploiting racial divisions. For asking the Republican Party to refrain from demonizing the opposition is akin to them relinquishing one of the twin pillars - scaring the shit out of Americans over the next terrorist attack being the other - from its standard playbook, so fashioned by Karl Rove in engineering George W. Bush victories in 2000 and 2004.