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Quote of the Day: Mike Huckabee On Demonizing Obama

June 18th, 2008
By JOE GANDELMAN, Editor-In-Chief

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The quote of the day comes from Republican Mike Hubackabee:

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.

“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.

The country was able “to get to a point where we did not see his colour but we truly saw his charisma, his message and what he brought to the campaign trail,” Huckabee said.

Don’t look for him to get the Vice Presidential slot when he’s advocating anything less than total all-out political war…



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    Here are two sides of the same racist coin:

    1. The side where people are condemned and discriminated against because of the color of their skin/racial ancestory.

    2. The side where, ironically, people are promoted and given favoritsim in spite of their actual merits because of the color of their skin/racial ancestory.

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    Two sides of THE EXACT SAME RACIST COIN.

    Meditate on that for a minute. Both sides discard the core, the individual soul and spirit and acheivements of a person and reduce him/her to a collection of pigmented skin cells and hype surrounding historical perceptions of those skin cells.

    The coin eliminates the personal factor, the human element.

    I'm sure Huckabee doesn't care much about getting the VP nod for a position he's never going to actually fill.

    I said this before, people will be giving Barack Obama a polite "thanks but no thanks" to being asked to sit VP anyway. Losing in the Fall is not good for one's political career.

    Barack will be just fine in the "war of politics". After all, he systematically eliminated four minority progressive candidates in his run for office in Chicago. And in full hubris he steals his persona from the late Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., a true hero who died for his convictions, grit and earned honor representing the plight and hopes for kind treatment of the same minorities Obama clearcutted in his political rise to power. Obama is a cad of the lowest rank. One of those candidates he exterminated, Gha-is Askia, posed no threat to him at all in the polls. He just wanted ALL of them out of the way..

    He'll be just fine in the race for presidency. Just fine...

    Except that me and millions of other disgusted democrats, and many disillusioned ex-McCain supporters will be writing-in Hillary Clinton this Fall..
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    We're sick of it folks.

    We're taking back the Power Of The People. We're shedding both sides of racist and sexist coins, political ties, backroom deals and the whole enchilada.

    Hillary Rodham Clinton has come to represent people of all races, colors and just people of plain old common sense who are SICK TO DEATH of being told who they can and cannot hire to represent them in the Oval Office. She represents being stonewalled and fighting back anyway. She is our folk hero, our martyr who was sacraficed by yet another batch of sneaky GOP/Big Media/Obama smokescreens and mirrors.

    We're pulling away the wool. We're doing away with protocol. We're doing away with mandated party loyalties. We're voting for the best candidate for a VERY VERY important job this time around.

    She's been there before and our aim is to send her back to the Oval Office in November. We are wholly dedicated to what she represents: our last chance of a voice in our own government.
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    HUckabee has said some wacky things (recognizing embruo rights in an amendment)
    From time to time, though, he exhibits the positive side of his adherence to a personal code of morality.
    This is one those times, and I respect him for it.
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    can't even read your comments any more, Sill. Rave on.
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    Don't worry.. either way, McCain or Obama, essentially a liberal will be elected.
    Check this out:
    http://www.greenfaucet.com/the-market/whichever...
    Discussion of how both candidates have similar plans.. raising taxes, socialist style policies.
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    This coming from a guy who just accepted a position over at Faux Gnus?
    Good luck with that, Huck- meister !
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    Wow, did Larry Johnson have a sex change operation?
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    Except that me and millions of other disgusted democrats, and many disillusioned ex-McCain supporters will be writing-in Hillary Clinton this Fall


    Interview with Kobe Bryant on local LA radio station this morning.

    Last night was a tough defeat. But we're ready to come out in game seven and win the championship. Millions of Laker fans are behind us and with their support there is no way we can lose this series
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    I don't mean to come off like an elitist here (I am, but I don't want to come off that way), but did you ever notice that the people who pee their pants most about affirmative action are the same folks who have terrible grammar (see above) and likely think that Evelyn Waugh is a woman? Might I suggest it is a chicken/egg situation? Score above a 900 on your combined goddamn SAT and you won't have to worry about minorities taking your spot.

    I'm sick to death of this argument. For every unqualified affirmative action candidate you find, I guarantee that I can dig up 3-4 mouth-breathing boss' sons.
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    "Don’t look for him to get the Vice Presidential slot when he’s advocating anything less than total all-out political war…"

    To be more precise, and correct, not the Democratic Vice Presidential slot.