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Mike Huckabee: Obama grew up in Kenya
SeeBS ^ | 3-1-11 | Lucy Madison

Posted on 03/01/2011 6:40:40 PM PST by Mozilla

In a radio interview on Monday, potential 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee repeatedly claims that President Obama grew up in Kenya.

A spokesman for Huckabee later told CBS News that the former Arkansas governor misspoke.

In an interview on WOR's "The Steve Malzberg Show," Huckabee made reference to Mr. Obama's "having grown up in Kenya" and spoke of him growing up "with a Kenyan father and grandfather" - despite the fact that Mr. Obama grew up largely in Hawaii and barely knew his father at all.

In responding to Malzberg's question about whether "we deserve to know more about this man" and his origins, Huckabee responded that "I would love to know more."

"What I know is troubling enough," Huckabee said of the president. "And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American."

A spokesman for Huckabee later said the former governor "meant to say the President grew up in Indonesia."

In the interview, Huckabee also pointed to the fact that Mr. Obama in 2009 returned a bust of Winston Churchill to the British Embassy, describing the act as "a great insult" to the British. (He did not mention that the bust had been on loan.)


TOPICS: Extended News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: americanafricans; certifigate; huckabee; indonesia; kenya; muslim; naturalborncitizen; obama; obamafamily
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To: Oakeshott
What is wrong with being an Arab? (Assuming that Obama is Arab).

I did't say his being an Arab is the problem per se; I said his deception; i.e., lying about being an Arab or pretending to be one half black that is the problem.

I wouldn't want to cast my vote for the first black president and find he has been lying to me and pretending to be black all along.

If his father really is from Kenya, then that is what the case is. I don't like being taken for a fool and neither should 95 or so percent of the blacks who pulled the lever mistakenly believing they were voting for a black man.

61 posted on 03/02/2011 4:10:17 AM PST by Stepan12 (Palin & Bolton in 2012)
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To: Oakeshott

http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:oakeshott/index?brevity=full;tab=comments


62 posted on 03/02/2011 4:44:22 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: Oakeshott
Obama did not grow up in Kenya and he was not born in Kenya.

Then why has he spent over $1 million to keep his long form BC secret????

Why do Republicans despise African people?

We don't, we despise LIARS.


63 posted on 03/02/2011 4:50:14 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: Oakeshott; All
What is wrong with being an Arab?

Nothing other than they seem to like to kill any Infidels.


64 posted on 03/02/2011 4:56:38 AM PST by McGruff (Is it time to Drill Baby Drill yet?)
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To: Mozilla

For some reason I was chuckling as I read this.


65 posted on 03/02/2011 5:01:46 AM PST by dforest
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To: HiTech RedNeck

IMO, what this country needs is a lot more rednecks in the administrations at all levels of government down to the gol dang city councils.


66 posted on 03/02/2011 5:02:59 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Oakeshott; 50mm; darkwing104; SunkenCiv
Sorry, Mr. Ignorant Racist, your arguments sway no one here. You must know your enemy's laws (the Constitution) before you attempt to interpret them.

ZOT!

Here's your ride out the door.


67 posted on 03/02/2011 5:15:13 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Mozilla
The Hucksters people are walking this back this morning.
68 posted on 03/02/2011 5:17:43 AM PST by mad_as_he$$ ( "Hokahey, today is a good day to die!" Crazy Horse, Lakota Sioux)
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To: stephenjohnbanker

Oopsie, I almost forgot you PING!


69 posted on 03/02/2011 5:18:27 AM PST by TheOldLady
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To: Mozilla

knock knock
who’s there
KENYA
Kenya who
Kenya show us the birth certificate!


70 posted on 03/02/2011 5:20:45 AM PST by cvq3842
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To: Oakeshott
Are Republicans telling America that the son of an American mother and a Kenyan father does not have the right to American citizenship?

Nope, the Constitution is telling us that one must be a NBC to be President and that the son of an American mother and a Kenyan father is not a natural born citizen. That's why Obama is NOT eligible. You really are ignorant of U.S. history if you truly believe that Republicans "despise African people". Also, for future reference, as soon as you throw that race card out there, you lose. This is 2011 and there's a "black man" in the White House, remember?

71 posted on 03/02/2011 5:28:28 AM PST by liberalh8ter
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To: Oakeshott
I looked at your posting history on the link, and you started by blaming Bush [one of the lefts favorites] and saying zero is a leader. Let me tell you something, zero wouldn't make a pimple on a gnat’s @$$ as far a being a leader.
72 posted on 03/02/2011 5:45:15 AM PST by Arrowhead1952 (America has two cancers - democrats and RINOS.)
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To: ClearCase_guy

I just watched the peeps—including Howard Dean today—on Morning Joe discussing this, and actually trying to explain it away, downplay it, say it isn’t at all like Huckabee, maybe it was just a comedic riff. No one said he was a moron. What do you suppose they would have said had Sarah Palin made those statements in a radio interview? I think they would love for Huckabee to be the nominee. He gets pre-2008 John McCain treatment from the media right now, but they would love to eviscerate him—and they have lots of ammunition—if he gets the nomination.


73 posted on 03/02/2011 5:51:56 AM PST by carola
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To: carola
Romney and Huckabee are the two candidates the media desperately want as GOP leaders. And there is a clear reason for this.

Sarah Palin is the candidate the media desperately wants to destroy before she can become the nominee. And there is a clear reason for this.

The GOP often lets the MSM choose our candidate. I hope this time is different.

74 posted on 03/02/2011 6:02:15 AM PST by ClearCase_guy
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To: everlast

I’m with you on Myth and Palin; but I will vote for Palin if she is the nominee.


75 posted on 03/02/2011 6:10:03 AM PST by Theodore R. (John Boehner just surrendered the only weapon with which he had to fight. Shame on OH and the USA!)
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To: oscar oscar oscar

Palin is stunningly beautiful and unelectable. Women’s won’t vote for her. She has this adjective “unqualified” constantly following her. But I will of course vote for her if she is the nominee. I am not yet convinced that she will run.


76 posted on 03/02/2011 6:24:18 AM PST by Theodore R. (John Boehner just surrendered the only weapon with which he had to fight. Shame on OH and the USA!)
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To: rightly_dividing

Hecklebee is unelectable and stunningly ugly.

On 3, 1-2-3 Palin.


77 posted on 03/02/2011 7:27:51 AM PST by TauntedTiger (Keep away from the fence!)
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To: Oakeshott

The boy blunder is a piece of work.
And it is a fair question about where he was born.
But you already knew that.


78 posted on 03/02/2011 7:39:38 AM PST by Darksheare (Dear Interdimensional Monstrosity, I fear our relationship has taken a turn for the worse...)
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To: Stepan12

Thanks Stepan. I knew I read something about Obama’s “mix.”

Now before I get blasted, this is what the article states: Obama is 50% Caucausian from Mama, 43.75% Arab and 6.25% African Negro from “Senior.”

Again, that is if “Senior” is his Daddy.... At this point, who the hell knows.

Regardless of the above, he’s still a fraud.


79 posted on 03/02/2011 7:40:21 AM PST by Joe Marine 76 (Semper Fi!)
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To: Oakeshott

“What is wrong with being an Arab?”

“ALLAHU ACKBAR!!” hmm.. there’s one clue.

“Nobody chooses how he/she is born.”
That does not entitle people to the Presidency of the United States just because you feel sorry for them.
It is not a lottery, nor is it to be awrded to people who aren’t fit for office just because you feel sorry for the little third worlder.

” There are scores of African muslims that convert to Christianity.”
Yes, and they end up persecuted, or outright murdered or it.
Your point?

“But even if Obama is a muslim, is that against the US constitution?”

You crack me up.
You know nothing about Islam, do you?
Islam has its own law called Shariah that forbids muslims from folowing other laws.
Like, our Constitution.
It is forbidden, shariah is to be the only law for muslims.
So, YES it IS against the constitution by their own admission and via their own law!


80 posted on 03/02/2011 7:50:43 AM PST by Darksheare (Dear Interdimensional Monstrosity, I fear our relationship has taken a turn for the worse...)
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