Huckabee praises Obama as a ‘role model’ for family values

[underpants]

Source: Yahoo

A day after he defended Michelle Obama against GOP attacks, Mike Huckabee praised President Obama, calling him a "role model" for family values.

"He has personally articulated, not once but numerous times, of his Christian faith. I take him at his word. I have no reason not to. For us to continue to dwell on that is missing the point. I have no disagreement with President Obama as a human being. In fact, I will go so far to say one of the things I respect very much is the role model that he has served as a husband and father," Huckabee said, per CNN's Alexander Mooney.

"I think he has been an exemplary husband to his wife and an extraordinary father to his daughters," he continued. "Frankly, America needs a good role model like that... He has given us an excellent example of a person who has his priorities straight in marking out time for his wife and raising his daughters in a disciplinary environment in which he recognizes that he the parent is responsible for the atmosphere in which they are raised. And I commend him and salute him for that."



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[brooklynite]

1. Mike, thanks for playing "Presidential Sweepstakes"...

We have some lovely parting gifts backstage.

[Kolesar]

4. Huckabee said that it is crazy to think it would be easy to defeat President Obama in 2012

He has been backing away from running for President. I heard this on the Bill Press show a few days ago. www.billpressshow.com

[Grassy Knoll]

8. Yup......

[FiveGoodMen]

2. THAT certainly isn't good!

[ncrainbowgrrl]

3. *blink*

What the heck did i miss


However, I'd love to know what he thinks of Sarah Palin's "family values" :evilgrin:

[bluestateguy]

5. He just made the first soundbites for Newt Gingrich and Sarah Palin's TV ads

Or maybe he's just not running.

Given that he has a very lenient, liberal record on crime.

[Dokkie]

9. lol

Sarah Palin is not running and I don't think Newt is any position to be pointing fingers at anyone. he has his own infidelity issues that needs sorting. Anyway, at least we know hes going to enter the race

[AlinPA]

6. There goes his chances in the primaries and his job at Fox. nt

[BenzoDia]

7. Beefin' with Romney responsible for this?

[Bake]

10. I don't think he's gonna run

He occasionally sounds sane/rational. But you watch, tomorrow he'll break out the batshit crazy!

Bake

[AlinPA]

21. Praising both the President and First Lady within three days ruins his chances with republicans. nt

[CBHagman]

23. Huckabee's been known to make cheap shots...

...along with the rest of them. I was actually disappointed when I realized that. For quite some time I believed the nice guy shtick and that Huckabee, if too conservative for my tastes, didn't play the game the way the others did.

But it turns out he has a rather visible nasty streak. Case in point: He'll pooh-pooh the birther conspiracy theories...and then make absolutely certain to get a dig in at Hillary Clinton (i.e., saying if there really were any doubt about Obama's birthplace, Clinton's opposition researchers would have found it out). That's a gratuitously nasty comment, and it's not the only one Huckabee likes to trot out.

[cartach]

24. Nasty? I don't think so.

He's just stating a fact. Reiterating what we all know,that if Obama had been born somewhere else but in the US it would have been proven by now and especially by Clinton's researchers. That's politics.

[CBHagman]

25. I knew someone would say that...

...and would point out that Obama wouldn't have even been running if there had been any question about his birthplace.

Huckabee deliberately inserts a dig at a Democrat in addressing the outrageous birther claims. He could simply say, "Don't be silly. Of course the president was born in the United States." But he doesn't; he trots out the swipe at Hillary Clinton. It's a canned response.

He's the same now with the references to the Koch brothers. At the same National Press Club address where he praised Obama, he made repeated jokes about chatting with David Koch by phone. It's shtick. It's an appeal to the base.

[madrchsod]

11. well huck a bee is right...

[The abyss]

12. Huckabee has already been anointed

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x586749

He is amongst the chosen and therefore allowed to either run or gum up the system.

- which ever way one decides to spin it.

[AlinPA]

20. He's out of the primaries after that statement. nt

[Lucky Luciano]

13. I am confused...such a statement does not compute.

I guess I will commend Huckabee for the first time ever for at least being civil and sounding like a human.

[socialshockwave]

14. Well,

It's over for the Huck-ster - Tea Party will hate him, Fixed News will hate him, and Glenny will hate him.

[crim son]

15. What's not to like about republican Obama?

Having said that, I'm going to assume Huckabee was being sincere i.e. has no plans to run in 2012. Otherwise, what was he thinking???

[Alamuti Lotus]

16. Kudos for the apparent bipartisan civility...... but if Huckabee was praising me,

I'd get real nervous and take a good long look in the mirror.

[TBF]

17. Of course he does - Huckabee may be a loon but he's not stupid

it actually makes him look normal next to Palin, Rush, Newt, Glenn, etc... Taking the high road.

[Alcibiades]

19. Compared to them, he is normal

A testament to how far right the GOP has become: Mike Huckabee and Mitt Romney are the moderates.

[Jmaxfie1]

18. If he'd stop the Anti-gay BS, I'd consider him a decent guy, wouldn't vote for him, but decent guy

[trackfan]

22. Well, I guess that finishes his chances for the nomination. n/t

[Unvanguard]

Duplicate. n/t

[Unvanguard]

26. Except when he decides that equally-loving and committed same-sex couples ought to have rights.

Then it's hastening the destruction of the family in the United States. :eyes:

[Demeter]

27. Talk about the Kiss of Death