Mike Huckabee, former (and probably future) Republican presidential candidate and sometime preacher, pretends to have morals. He supposedly lives by the big 10 (commandments, that is). And yet this week he has been out-and-out lying through his teeth about President Obama for political gain.
In his book he asserts that President Obama "grew up in Kenya" and has an axe to grind with Britain because of the Mau Mau revolution there. When he got called on it he said he "misspoke" and that he meant to say Indonesia (where Obama actually only spent four years of his childhood). But if you substitute Indonesia for Kenya, the rest of what he said doesn't make sense. So he lied about where Obama grew up, and then he lied about misspeaking. And this guy's supposed to be a preacher?
I hate to say it, but this is out-and-out racism. Do you think this kind of stuff would be happening on the right if the president were white? I don't think so.
Huckabee, you should be ashamed of yourself. And you should apologize to the president -- in public and often -- and then look in the mirror and ask yourself just how low you are willing to go to be president... because this is not a pretty picture.
