Huckabee Questions Obama Birth Certificate, Claims He Was Raised in K

[spanone]

Mike Huckabee, the former governor of Arkansas and a possible presidential candidate in 2012, said on Monday that he would “love to know more” about where President Obama was born and claimed — falsely — that Mr. Obama was raised in Kenya.

The comments were prompted by the conservative radio host Steve Malzberg, who asked Mr. Huckabee, “how come we don’t have a health record, we don’t have a college record, we don’t have a birth certificate — why, Mr. Obama did you spend millions of dollars in courts all over this country to defend against having to present a birth certificate?”

The former governor responded, “I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough.” Mr. Huckabee, who is now a Fox News host, then talked repeatedly about his concerns that Mr. Obama was raised in Kenya. (The audio of the entire interview with Mr. Huckabee was posted on the WOR Web site.)

“If you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather,” Mr. Huckabee said.

http://thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/01/huckabee-questions-obama-birth-certificate-claims-he-was-raised-in-kenya/?ref=politics

[FSogol]

1. Huckabe is just another GOP grifter. n/t

[trueblue2007]

53. huckabee is just another GOP smelly Armpit !!!!!!!!!!!!

he is stupid, stupid, stupid

[PBS Poll-435]

2. With the bloodshot eyes and the 'orange' skin...

Maybe ...


:shrug:

[spanone]

4. i can't believe these assholes....and they are assholes.

[Mojeoux]

30. RACIST ASSHOLES!! Oh sorry for shouting!!!!

Why don't these guys just come out as the KKK lovers that they are?
They get all huffy when you call them on their racism.

[truebrit71]

3. Are you fucking kidding me?

HEY ASSHOLES HE'S AN AMERICAN, GET THE FUCK OVER IT!!!

[jpak]

5. "Huckabee" sounds Kenyan to me - where is his birth certificate, college diploma etc.?

Where is his Mau Mau grandfather?

what a dumbass

yup

[spanone]

7. it's not about that....they are RACISTS nothing less

[gateley]

16. I am so convinced this is the case. Their hatred/fear of The Black Man have helped

them convince themselves of the "facts" of this lie.

I heard one commentator say "It's easier for them to admit - to themselves and publicly - that they are only concerned about his citizenship. They don't have to look at the real motivation or publicly admit to their racism." Sounds right-on, to me.

[treestar]

6. Where's Huckabee's Birth Certificate?

And how can anyone that ignorant of common facts about the current President hope to prove himself good enough to be President?

[Drale]

9. He probably doesn't have one

because that old fart was born long before everyone was given a birth certificate at birth. :rofl:

[PBS Poll-435]

13. Maybe in Boeaunerx's floor safe?

Or at Fox News Headquarters in New York.




Edited for proper punktuation.



:P

[spanone]

8. the dick cheney doctrine....say it enough times and it becomes the truth

to a certain % of the population

[leftstreet]

10. Why did Obama never put a stop to this nonsense?

He's had the world as his stage

:shrug:

[spanone]

17. there is absolutely nothing he could do or say to stop this racists bullshit

nothing.

[leftstreet]

19. Sure he could have. Could have made fun of them on tv early on

This has been floating around long enough that some people actually believe it's true

[JuniperLea]

32. No he couldn't.... he's above that sort of action...

I for one would be sorely disappointed if he stooped to their childish level.

Someone else could do that for him and I would be cool with it, however.

[leftstreet]

39. He told people to quit listening to Limbaugh

If he stooped to THAT level, why not?

[JuniperLea]

45. How is that even in the same ballpark?

Limbaugh is a purveyor of lunacy, and he's NOT A POLITICIAN!

[leftstreet]

49. But...you just made my case

If Obama felt it necessary to respond to the public loon Limbaugh...

responding to a fellow politician, Hucklebee, should be fine

:shrug:

[JuniperLea]

52. Wrong...

Public figures are due a modicum of respect, especially from each other. That's why, until very recently, you would never hear a former president bash a current president.

Asshat blowhards outside of government are not due a modicum of respect by any protocol.

[yellowcanine]

34. Well first of all, there is nothing he can do - its a lie and people tell them about politicians.

A politician really can't go around refuting every lie, he wouldn't get anything else done and it won't stop people from telling the same lie over and over. He does make fun of it, which is about the only thing one can do.

Second - the only people willing to believe this crap are never going to vote for Obama anyway.

Finally - The Huckabees and their ilk do more damage to their own political prospects than to Obama's, when they do this so why should he try to stop them?

[The Magistrate]

11. Perhaps Ignorance Is Not Bliss, Sir: He Does Not Look Very Happy....

"Kenya dig it?"

[Pisces]

12. Sounds like he is running for Pres. Trying to get the crazy base on his side.

[MineralMan]

14. B-daa, b-daa, b-daa, b-daa...that's all folks...

Morons abound, and some of them even think they can run for President.

[arcane1]

15. There British WERE a bunch of imperialists! n/t

[rfranklin]

25. I can second that...I was there in Kenya when they were finally driven out...

They spoke about the African people just like southern whites spoke about black people in this country. I don't remember the British lynching anyone but I know they shot a lot of people.

[eleny]

18. They'll believe anything once he casts that old Huckabee spell...

[frazzled]

20. We should start a movement ...

questioning whether Huckabee was, indeed (as we suspect) really raised in Estonia (behind the Iron Curtain). It doesn't have to make sense. We just have to say it. Over and over and over again.

[theothersnippywshrub]

21. So now Obama is a Mau Mau supporter. How very Republican. n/t

[spanone]

22. we have lost truth. there are no consequences for lying. lies = truth.

:shrug:

in the real world, saying something this fucking devoid of fact, knowingly, should immediately disqualify you for any public office.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

23. He should make up his mind and decide if he's in the Just Crazy wing or the Fucking Psycho wing

of the GOP.

[Arkana]

24. Good one, Mike! Say nighty-night to your Presidential ambitions!

[IntravenousDemilo]

26. This seems odd, considering that on The Colbert Report last week,...

... Hezekiah Huckabee seemed to have no doubt that Obama was born in the US.

What changed Hezekiah's mind? Could it be that he'll agree with whomever he happens to be talking to at the time, just to get some votes?

Also, I noticed on the show that he's getting kind of porky again.

[TheCowsCameHome]

27. Mike Huckabee was actually born in Kohler

Oops, sorry!

I meant in a Kohler toilet.

[PA Democrat]

28. Huckabee reverals he is a birther loon.

That may buy him some traction in the primaries but it will cook his goose in a general election.

[spanone]

29. WaPo got it right: 'Huckabee claims inaccurately that Obama was raised in Kenya'

just found this...


....

The Associated Press reports that a Huckabee adviser did not have an immediate explanation for Huckabee's comments

The president, a United States citizen, was in fact raised in Hawaii and Indonesia. The president's father was born in Kenya and his mother was born in Kansas.

Huckabee did not go as far as to say the president did not grow up in the United States or that his birth certificate was forged, as "birthers" believe. Asked if he would ask the president about his birth certification in a debate, Huckabee said:

The only reason I'm not as confident that there's something about the birth certificate, Steve, is because I know the Clintons and believe me, they have lots of investigators out on him, and I'm convinced if there was anything that they could have found on that, they would have found it, and I promise they would have used it.

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/03/huckabee-asserts-hes-not-a-bir.html

[yellowcanine]

41. "a Huckabee adviser did not have an immediate explanation for Huckabee's comments"

:rofl:

He is no doubt asking himself, "Do I really want to work for this guy?"

[EarlG]

31. And pushing the much-mocked Dinesh D'Souza "anti-colonialism" theory to boot

http://www.slate.com/id/2267179/

Huckabee must be trying to outdo Newt.

[JuniperLea]

33. I never got that "anti-colonialism" deal...

I need someone to explain that to me like I was a four year old, apparently.

[spanone]

38. thanks for that link.

[PufPuf23]

44. Huckabee and Newt are dangerous weirdos.

Thanks for the link, D'Sousa:

"Obama got his big government philosophy from the civil rights era." Only after seeing Obama give a definition of "American exceptionalism" that didn't sound right did D'Souza go back to Obama's books and realize that the president was cribbing his politics from 1960s Marxist and anti-colonial theory.

lol

Amazing as what is written and distributed.

Huckabee is a nutjob and Newt is dangerous.

POTUS Obama leads relative highly connected and priviledged life that was disrupted by circumstance because of adults when he was young. His brain and education and breadth of geography and culture make a complex and capable man.

Frankly, POTUS Obama confuses me.

[Fire Walk With Me]

35. "Huckabee again seeks attention" should be the headline.

[KamaAina]

36. He must be a D-list candidate

if he's going on with D-list host Steve Malzberg. :eyes:

[Dappleganger]

37. Buh-bye, Bubba! Now you're just like every other birther nut.

[spanone]

40. it's like they suddenly get birther fever or something...seems like political suicide to me???

[hobbit709]

42. Hey Huckleberry

If he was raised in Kenya then how can you claim he went to a Muslin terror school in Indonesia?

[yellowcanine]

43. Well, the fact is that the British WERE imperialists. They even called it the "British Empire."

So even if he had been hearing that at his Daddy's knee, it would have been the truth, so would that somehow be a drawback? Truth means nothing to Huckabee. He lives in a cartoon world.

[Bandit]

46. Huckabee needs to prove he is no longer a memeber of the Klan.

We need to see all the paperwork involved as his word is no good...He LIES bald faced..

[texshelters]

47. Repugs can't make valid, logical arguments so

they resort to lies.

STFU Huckster.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[yellowcanine]

48. That will teach Huckles for buying into "Distort the Newsa's" cartoon reality.

He really should quit reading right wing propaganda as fact.

[JoePhilly]

50. Huck-a-SPIN is a CLOWN.

He needs to prove he has not cheated on his wife or had gay sex. Or both.

[janet118]

51. When you lie, does your butt grow?

I saw a rear camera angle of Huckabee when he was on Colbert's show that made his ass look HUGE. I guess he's off that diet of his.