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Before speaking to a July 4 gathering at First Baptist Church, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee talked with the Observer. He covered everything from the tea party movement to President Obama's handling of the BP oil spill to why a President Huckabee would have let the banks and General Motors fail and would oppose extending unemployment benefits yet again. On some Republicans' call for the resignation of national GOP chairman Michael Steele : "I think that he's done more right things than he's done things wrong. Unfortunately, the wrong things that he's done have been very public in terms of...

Consistent with his self-promotion as the friendly face of conservatism, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee has recently turned toward younger voters in his campaigning. On Tuesday, Huckabee spent an hour taking questions from Virginia high school students at the XM Radio office in Washington. The Q & A was broadcast on XM’s POTUS ’08 station and C-SPAN Radio. Huckabee started off by joking that he was sorry the students had to listen to him instead of Paul McCartney and B.B. King, both of whom have played in the same studio, and closed by emphasizing his commitment to fostering creativity in...