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But wait. Read some old news from the Arkansas paper. I’ve been browsing the archives and I don’t like what I see.

He could have us all on a diet soon. Oh and he must have a strange sense of humor. Here he jokes about old people throwing depends at him at rock concerts instead of babes throwing panties.

I think this guy has issues yet to be revealed. Scary.

Here are a few excerpts from the article:

“There is no greater issue driving the U.S. economy than this,” Huckabee says, “this” being the scourge of obesity, junk food consumption and sedentary lifestyles.

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Huckabee was originally against mandatory physical education requirements and curbing the sale of junk food in school vending machines — believing that those decisions should be left to school districts. But he was eventually persuaded otherwise. “I accept that Mike has a political constituency to worry about,” says Katz, who corresponds regularly with Huckabee. “If he alienates the food industry and his political base and he finds himself out of power, what good does it do us?

“If you’re asking me if I think he’s gone far enough, I would say no,” Katz adds. “But I’m pleased that he keeps giving me the opportunity to tell him what I think.”

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Conversations while jogging can be especially fruitful. Camaraderie is built, endorphins released, defenses dropped.

And after a while, Huckabee is saying things that politicians probably shouldn’t say. Like this:

“I keep hearing about these bands that have girls throwing their underwear onstage,” he says, bemoaning that Capital Offense doesn’t have any groupies. “But given our demographics, we’re more likely to have old men throwing their Depends at us.”

(Stewart, who is accompanying him on his run/interview — befitting her dual credentials as both a press secretary and marathon trainer — emphasizes that the governor is kidding about the Depends-throwing.)

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/01/16/AR2006011601380.html