Huckabee Clarifies He 'Never' Said Obama Should Be Impeached

[DonViejo]

By CAITLIN MACNEAL Published AUGUST 11, 2014, 1:14 PM EDT

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) on Saturday clarified that he never called for President Obama to be impeached.

Last week, he told Iowa radio host Steve Deace that Obama "has done plenty of things worthy of impeachment." But during an interview with Iowa reporters on Saturday, Huckabee said that impeachable offenses don't necessarily mean a president should be impeached.

"Let me be very clear. I never said he should be impeached. In fact I was explicitly clear," he said, according to the Des Moines Register. "As often is the case, only half of what I said got quoted. I was asked the specific question: Had he committed impeachable offenses. And I said yes."

"But he's not going to be impeached, and he shouldn't be," Huckabee continued. "Impeachment ought to be something that would be used in the rarest and most unusual of circumstances."

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[gordianot]

1. Works for me Huckabee will not do what he thinks should be done.

It makes for perfect Republican logic and values.

[merrily]

2. Huckabee is wrong. Obama has committed no high crimes or misdemeanors.

No one is sure exactly what those words mean, but both those words have to do with crimes. All Obama has done is be registered as a Democrat instead of as a Republican.

Also, some scholars say that impeachment was intended to be an ordinary remedy, not the rare thing we have made it. I don't know enough to say one way or another. I just know a couple of guys wrote a book to that effect not too long ago.

[Lochloosa]

3. The talk of impeachment has nothing to do with Obama registering as a Democrat.

It's has to do with the color of his skin.

[merrily]

5. I think that, at a minimum, it's both. Clinton WAS impeached, not merely the

subject of talk of impeachable offenses. Clinton is, as far as we know, "all white."

That was politics, not race.

Yet, with Obama, it's only talk of impeachment. They are not holding back from impeaching Obama because he is African American. They are holding back because impeaching Clinton proved disastrous. IOW, they are holding back because of politics, not race.

I don't think Republicans would be loving up Obama if he were "all white."

[Lochloosa]

7. That is not true...

I clearly remember Clinton as being our "first black president".

JIMMY KIMMEL: Do you miss being the first African-American president? I feel like that was -- I feel like you were cheated out of that, that was taken from you.

BILL CLINTON: Yeah, well -- let me say this. I consider it -- I was incredibly fortunate that I was born in a little town in Arkansas and raised by my grandparents largely and my great-uncle and -aunt when my widowed mother went off to become a nurse. And my grandparents were poor white Southerners, who as a class were among the most racially prejudiced people in the South, and they weren't. My granddad ran a country store and the vast majority of his customers were African-American.

So, I was raised in a different way -- at home in the church, at home and the culture. And it was such a gift to me that I grew up free of that and I deserve no credit for it whatsoever, it was the way I was raised. And so, I love being called the first black president, but Barack Obama really is, he deserves it. And it's been thrilling for me for doing what I could since Hillary lost the primary, we've done everything we could to support him and I was delighted we had over 7 million people sign up for the health exchange.

[merrily]

8. Toni Morrison called him that and she explained why she called him that.

Quite obviously, Clinton was not our first black President.

[Sheepshank]

4. only to be use in rare ands unusual circumstances?

Bill Clinton's dallianaces were rare and unusual in the WH?

I never knew that.

[merrily]

9. A President perjuring himself about his dalliances is

different from a President simply having dalliances.

[Sheepshank]

11. SERIOUS SHIT!

well worth impeachment

[merrily]

12. Didn't say that, but thanks for the gratuitous snark.

I was simply responding directly to your comment about Presidential dalliances not being unusual.

Dalliances by Presidents, neither unusual nor criminal.

Perjury about dalliances by a President (and an attorney), both unusual and criminal.

Was it worthy of impeachment, though? The rule of law is supposedly important in our society and perjury is a direct attack the rule of law. So, was impeachment as frivolous as you try to make it seem? Moot point. He was both impeached and acquitted years ago. He even succeeded in getting his bar membership reinstated, though most lawyers who had perjured themselves and needed that membership to earn a living would be SOL.

I'll leave it to you to decide if the House should have ignored a President's perjuring himself, on national TV, no less. Me? I don't care. As my bold italics suggest, I don't believe the rule of law is the cornerstone of out our society, anyway. But we do pay it some heavy duty lip service.

[Sheepshank]

14. I was responding to your singling out such an "important" lie that it was impeach-worthy

[merrily]

15. As I said before, I never said it was impeachment-worthy.

Not in my first reply to you and not in my second.

Ergo, you were not responding to what I posted, but what you imagined I'd posted.

As far as singling out a lie for any purpose, if I am distinguishing dalliances by other Presidents from Clinton's perjury about his dalliances, what lies do you imagine I excluded in order to, according to you, single out a lie?

[Bluenorthwest]

6. The fact that Mike Huckabee is quoted on anything, anywhere is an indictment of American political

culture.

[merrily]

10. Amen.

pun intended.

Well, it's not exactly a pun, but you know what I mean.

[gratuitous]

13. Mike Huckabee has done plenty of things worthy of being gutshot

See what I did there?