Republican Huckabee says don't denigrate Obama

[dbt]

Source: AFP via yahoo

TOKYO (AFP) - Former US presidential contender Mike Huckabee urged his fellow Republicans on Wednesday not to denigrate Democrat Barack Obama, saying they should celebrate the historic moment of a black candidate.

"Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonising Barack Obama," Huckabee told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo.

The former Arkansas governor said that, having grown up in the segregated South, he never thought he would see an African-American win the nomination of a major party for the US presidency. <snip>

Huckabee declined comment on whether he wanted the vice presidential nomination, other than to say that McCain would be more likely to pick him if he chose to focus on winning over Southern and conservative voters.

Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080618/ts_alt_afp/usvotejapanhuckabee

[ixion]

1. wow... rational thought from a repub...

go figure. :wow:

[Kierkegaard]

20. They're not all morons.

Most of 'em are, but not all.

[Orsino]

21. Some of them are smart enough to prostitute themselves willingly...

...rather than merely being hypnotized by the MSM.

[Kierkegaard]

22. That's true, too.

[saigon68]

2. I wonder what Rove thinks of this strategy?

I myself don't believe it for a nano-second.

I have seen too many new aunt jemima and step and fetch-it cartoons sprouting up all over.

Willy Horton is about to make his presence felt 24/7 on the air-waves.

[PfcHammer]

3. Dems need to watch their 6

these assholes aren't going away without an expensive dirty fight:mad:

[hokies4ever]

4. Huckabee does seem like a respectful man

He was even trying to stick up for Rev. Wright. That is, until the National Press Club incidence. :rofl:

[Eva Jade]

6. Huckabee is an interesting character

It's good to see him speak out. Shame he's utterly nuts on most other things.

[hlthe2b]

10. Exactly.. Unpredictably Rational...

So, do we celebate his sporadic rationality or be weary of his more often manifesting the opposite (e.g. in favor of banning birth control and the like)

[hokies4ever]

17. Policy positions are not the same as being a respectful man

[hlthe2b]

19. Not so respectful of women, if you do your homework....

[AlinPA]

5. Instead, they come out with the racist button (starting in TX GOP convention).

[northernlights]

7. Huckabee is very very clever...

about "appearances." Behind his "Mr. Good Guy" act though, the preacher-man is the protector of dog-torturers. Literally. :grr: Still, nice of him to cut the "boy" some slack. :eyes:

[calimary]

9. Yep, he's little more than that proverbial broken clock - it DOES just happen to be

correct twice every day.

I wouldn't trust him as far as I could throw the island of Manhattan.

[L. Coyote]

8. Too little, too late. Huchabee denigrates us all!!

Saying "he never thought he would see an African-American win" is denigration!! It denigrates us all!!

[mcollier]

11. You know the republicans can't

help themselves...

[tanyev]

There goes his last chance for the VP slot.

[meow2u3]

12. Republican Huckabee says don't denigrate Obama

Source: AFP

TOKYO (AFP) - Former US presidential contender Mike Huckabee urged his fellow Republicans on Wednesday not to denigrate Democrat Barack Obama, saying they should celebrate the historic moment of a black candidate.

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"Republicans will make a fundamental if not fatal mistake if they seek to win the election by demonising Barack Obama," Huckabee told a news conference on a visit to Tokyo.

The former Arkansas governor said that, having grown up in the segregated South, he never thought he would see an African-American win the nomination of a major party for the US presidency.

"I do not want to have anyone misrepresent or miss the opportunity to celebrate what I think is a landmark achievement, not just for Barack Obama, but for the United States of America," he said.



Read more: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080618/ts_alt_afp/usvotejapanhuckabee

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STP to Huckabee: Your call for common decency will fall on deaf neocon ears.

[bunkerbuster1]

13. He also sounded very rational about the whole Rev. Wright thing.

Huck's got some rock-stupid political ideas, but I have to give him credit for eschewing the ugly shit his party cranks out.

http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/shared-blogs/ajc/politicalinsider/entries/2008/03/21/huckabee_on_obama_wright_cut_s.html

“Many times those were statements lifted out of the context of a larger sermon. Sermons, after all, are rarely written word-for-word by pastors like Reverend Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you’d say, ‘Well, I probably didn’t mean to say it quite like that……’

“And one other thing I think we’ve got to remember.

“As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say ‘That’s a terrible statement’ — I grew up in a very segregated South.

“And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I’m going to be probably the only conservative in America who’s going to say something like this, but I’m just telling you — we’ve got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie, you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant, you can’t sit out there with everyone else. There’s a separate waiting room in the doctor’s office. Here’s where you sit on the bus.

“And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment, and you have to just say, ‘I probably would, too.’”

[boobooday]

14. Huckabee's advice:

Just make the smear commercials, leak their existence, and you won't have to pay for any airtime! You can act all outraged and righteous!

[frogcycle]

15. yeah, buried away under some really wacky ideas

there may actually be a human being in the huckster

[pattmarty]

16. I live in Arkansas now (retired here in 2001) and Huckabee.......

....considering he was Governor of a southern state, was a moderate Republican. He is one of the "new" Republicans (moderate, like Rockefeller from the 60's). I realize he's a "reverend" but at least he ain't "W".

[democrat2thecore]

18. You left out an important part

The second half of the comment (that was snipped) was excellent:

The former Arkansas governor said that, having grown up in the segregated South, he never thought he would see an African-American win the nomination of a major party for the US presidency.

"I do not want to have anyone misrepresent or miss the opportunity to celebrate what I think is a landmark achievement, not just for Barack Obama, but for the United States of America," he said.

Give the guy credit - he didn't have to say this!