Huckabee: Obama still Anti-American

04 March 2011 |permalink | email article

Mike Huckabee may be leading in some early polls for the Republican presidential nomination but the former Arkansas governor and Baptist minister has a problem in telling the truth. He now knows that President Obama wasn’t born in Kenya and that he misspoke when he made the much-maligned comment early this week.

But, as Talking Points Memo noted, when he appeared on social conservative Bryan Fisher’s radio show on Wednesday, he agreed when the host suggested that “there may be some fundamental anti-Americanism in this president.”

The day before, as TPM reported, Huckabee was slammed hard for comments he made on to radio host Steve Malzberg. “One thing I do know is that his having grown up in Kenya, [President Obama’s] view of Brits. for example, [is] is very different than that of the average American,” he said.

His spokesperson later said Huckabee “simply misspoke” about where Obama was from, and he meant to say Indonesia. On Wednesday, Huckabee called it “pathetic” reporters were attacking his remarks. Speaking to the anti-gay Fischer he insisted he never said that Obama was born anywhere other than Hawaii where he claims to have born.”

Fischer asked Huckabee to comment on whether he thought there was some validity to the fact there may been some fundamental anti-Americanism in this president. He responded that “well, that’s exactly the point I make in the book….”And as I have said many times,” he later added, “publicly, that I do think he has a different world view ….in part, molded out of a very different experience. Most of us grew up going to Boy Scout meetings….and our communities were filled with Rotary Clubs, not madrassas.”

While Huckabee and other potential far-right candidates may deny it, the Republicans are very quietly making racism and anti-Americanism a key part of Campaign 2012 to help take Obama down. Their slogan: “He’s not one of us.”

Wisconsin Voters

A new poll of likely voters from Rasmussen – a pollster often criticized for typically skewing GOP results – finds a majority of Wisconsinites siding with unions on collective bargaining and not rookie Republican Gov. Scott Walker. Worst still for the Tea Party favorite, a majority said they sided with AWOL Senate Democrats, who fled the state to deny the senate the quorum necessary to advance the repair bill.


   

 

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