Posted on 02/28/2011 11:50:26 AM PST by rightwingintelligentsia
Mike Huckabee is going against the grain of conservative pundits and potential 2012 rivals who are merciless in attacking the Obamas, taking a softer tack as he defends the first couple on issues like healthy eating and the president’s citizenship.
While conservative talk radio hosts like Rush Limbaugh trashed First Lady Michelle Obama’s healthy-eating initiative — one of her few forays into public policy — as an effort to have a government-run food program, Huckabee went the other way.
“I do not think she's out there advocating that the government take over our dinner plates,” Huckabee, who’s been open about his own battles with weight and diabetes, said last week. “In fact, she's not. She's been criticized unfairly by a lot of my fellow conservatives.”
On the so-called birther issue, Huckabee described doubts over the president’s citizenship as an “obsession” and a “waste of time.”
And he yoked debate over the president’s religion at conservative fringes to the attacks Obama faced in 2008 regarding his flame-throwing former pastor, Jeremiah Wright.
“If people went back and heard every sermon I heard when I was a little kid and some of the more fundamentalist pastors were yelling from the pulpit at me, if they took every one of those sermons and lifted out of them certain phrases and things, it could be scandalous, but only out of the context of the bigger picture,” he told Christianity Today.
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Poor Huck, he’ll do anything to try to get a liberal to say something nice about him, just like the Bushes did.
I know a lot of people like Huckabee, but I have a fairly unpopular view regarding presidential elections.
Anyone who is not critical of the sitting president has no business being his opponent.
Ah yes, the kinder/gentler stooge’s approach to popularity.
They don’t call this guy Huckster for no good reason.
Vote for me. Vote for me. I’m a nice guy, vote for me.
This is right in line with his pardons to poor misunderstood murderers who subsequently went on to kill more people.
I guess we really should take his current character reference for what it is worth.
America would have been far better served if his bum chum Juan McCain had done the same.
The Myth crowd never knows when to shut their pieholes....
When Rodney King asked the question, the Huckster’s hand immediately went up, “Yes!” And then in the same manner coined by Peter Sellers, his other hand grabbed his arm and tried to pull it down.
I’ll let you folks guess which hand won.
Well then do the right thing, switch parties Huck.
The ‘Mitt’ gets praised by ZERO = D.O.A. for nomination!
The ‘Huckster’ praises ZERO = D.O.A. for nomination!
Looks like the horizon is clear for the only one with any COJONES!
He’s full of something, that much is certain.
Diaper gravy.....
He probably figures, well, this worked for McCain...
The Sons of Jimmy Carter stick together.
Mike Huckabee full of love for P_resident Barack 0bama
They don’t call this guy Huckster for no good reason.
Photo of huckabees at # 13. Would you buy a used car from this guy?
They are more politically alike than different.
LLS
Huck looks like he would be right at home on a Black-and-White TV episode of Andy of Mayberry.
He is only a year older than me too!
Who is telling him he has even a chance of being elected?
I hope all of those who supported him last time have learned their lesson.
Huck *uckabee.
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