Huckabee gains black support (36 Black Leader Endorsements Today) (Partial Self Title)

AP via Yahoo! ^ | Mon Jan 21, 5:56 PM ET | By CHARLES BABINGTON

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ATLANTA - Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee paid tribute to Martin Luther King Jr. at a lengthy memorial service Monday at King's old church and was endorsed by several black religious leaders.

While his main GOP rivals campaigned in Florida, Huckabee sat quietly through a nearly four-hour King ceremony at the Ebenezer Baptist Church. He was overshadowed by fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton, who received a long ovation for his 18-minute address.

The former president acknowledged Huckabee, who did not speak. "We don't agree on much, but he is a very good man," Clinton told the audience of several hundred.

Huckabee said he was willing to put aside campaigning for a half day to attend the King event, which he called inspiring.

The former Arkansas governor finished second in the South Carolina Republican primary over the weekend after campaigning in which he said the federal government should stay out of disputes over display of the Confederate battle flag in the state. He said last week, "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell 'em what to do with the pole, that's what we'd do."

The flag is a symbol of racism to some, of Southern pride to others.

After his South Carolina loss, Huckabee needs strong showings in states such as Florida, Georgia and Alabama to keep his campaign alive. He went to Orlando for a late-afternoon rally and fundraiser Monday and planned to return to Atlanta Tuesday for an anti-abortion event.

"Winning Florida would be great," Huckabee told an Orlando airport crowd of about 100, speaking of the state's Jan. 29 GOP primary. But winning the nomination is the bigger goal, he said. "Nobody is going to have this wrapped up by Florida," he said.

"We plan on carrying Georgia," Huckabee told reporters.

After leaving the King ceremony, Huckabee was endorsed by three dozen African-Americans, most of them connected to conservative religious organizations.

Huckabee's strong opposition to abortion and gay marriage matches the "high moral values" of many black Americans, said William Owens, founder of a group called the Coalition of African American Pastors.

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[manic4organic]

The second black president!

[2ndDivisionVet]

"The former president acknowledged Huckabee, who did not speak. "We don't agree on much, but he is a very good man," Clinton told the audience of several hundred."

He should have also said: "I look forward to his nomination so that my wife can win the White House and I can run the world again."

[fieldmarshaldj]

Huckster, the pro-life Socialist.

[rockinqsranch]

“He was overshadowed by fellow Arkansan Bill Clinton, who received a long ovation for his 18-minute address.”

The ovation was for the brevity of the speech.

[rightinthemiddle]

Yeah, until they get in the voting booth.

“That crazy white man thinks I’m voting for him?”

[org.whodat]

Now what did Rollins say about buying the black preachers in new Jersey????

[hinckley buzzard]

Huckabee said he was willing to put aside campaigning for a half day to attend the King event, which he called inspiring

Panderbear. You didn't get one vote, a-hole, even though that's the only reason you were there..

[papasmurf]

Black souls don’t count.

[GregoTX]

"Huckabee was endorsed by three dozen African-Americans, most of them connected to conservative religious organizations."

36 endorsements. Well whoopee-doo.

[Elyse]

He said last week, "If somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell 'em what to do with the pole, that's what we'd do."

This man opens his mouth and says far too many stupid things to be our President, but he does often make me chuckle.

[littlehouse36]

"We don't agree on much, but he is a very good man," Clinton told the audience of several hundred.

 

We don't agree on much except for raising taxes, trashing the capitol before leaving, jamming on Leno, using surrogates to do our dirty work, eating squirrel and pardoning convicted felons. 

 

 

[littlehouse36]

When Huck jokes around, it always leads back to the colon or rectal area.

[Elyse]

LOL! Not exactly Presidential.

[life more important]

Huckabee is a Fiscal Conservative
by Dick Morris, excerpt...

As Mike Huckabee rises in the polls, an inevitable process of vetting him for conservative credentials is under way in which people who know nothing of Arkansas or of the circumstances of his governorship weigh in knowingly about his record. As his political consultant in the early '90s and one who has been following Arkansas politics for 30 years, let me clue you in: Mike Huckabee is a fiscal conservative.

A recent column by Bob Novak excoriated Huckabee for a "47 percent increase in state tax burden." But during Huckabee's years in office, total state tax burden -- all 50 states combined -- rose by twice as much: 98 percent, increasing from $743 billion in 1993 to $1.47 trillion in 2005.

In Arkansas, the income tax when he took office was 1 percent for the poorest taxpayers and 7 percent for the richest, exactly where it stood when he left the statehouse 11 years later. But, in the interim, he doubled the standard deduction and the child care credit, repealed capital gains taxes for home sales, lowered the capital gains rate, expanded the homestead exemption and set up tax-free savings accounts for medical care and college tuition.

Most impressively, when he had to pass an income tax surcharge amid the drop in revenues after Sept. 11, 2001, he repealed it three years later when he didn't need it any longer.

He raised the sales tax one cent in 11 years and did that only after the courts ordered him to do so. (He also got voter approval for a one-eighth-of-one-cent hike for parks and recreation.)

He wants to repeal the income tax, abolish the IRS and institute a "fair tax" based on consumption, and opposes any tax increase for Social Security.

[fieldmarshaldj]

"by Dick Morris"

Yeah, that nails it for me. Huckster, the pro-life Socialist who gets the seal of approval from world-class toe sucker and Clintonista Dickie Morris.

[Tramonto]

Reminds me of the piece by J.C. Watts.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1915077/posts

[life more important]

Don’t bother reading what he wrote, though. You have been pamphleted by Club for Growth, etc., and you know much better. /sarcasm

[fieldmarshaldj]

BTW, did you know Huckster’s rodent successor (after Huckster eviscerated the AR GOP and the Conservative movement) didn’t have to fire his appointees ? They were Clintonistas. Huckster kept them in place.

Worst. Southern. RINO. Governor. Ever.

Dickie Morris just confirmed it.

FRiends don’t let FRiends vote for liberal RINO Socialists.

[life more important]

Lincoln left Confederate leaders in place, too.

[fieldmarshaldj]

You’re comparing Huckster to Lincoln now ?

BTW, if Huckster had been a real Republican and a real Conservative, neither of which he was, he’d have fired every single solitary Clintonista cretin appointee all the way down to janitor. But he didn’t. He never had any intention of doing so. And now we see the consequences. Thanks to him, it will be years before we recover from his disastrous party-destroying leadership.

One Republican left in AR in statewide or federal office after he was done.

One.

Not even Hawaii and Vermont are that devoid of Republicans.

Please keep him and his equally horrific Yankee clone, Joe Isuzu Romney, the hell away from the GOP nomination, thank you.

[ApplegateRanch]

This man opens his mouth and says far too many stupid things to be our President, but he does often make me chuckle.

When Jay Leno retires, replace him with Huckabeast, and move the show to late night on TBN.

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Huckster, the pro-life Socialist.

No, he just isn't a utopian minimalist.

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BTW, if Huckster had been a real Republican and a real Conservative, neither of which he was, he’d have fired every single solitary Clintonista cretin appointee all the way down to janitor. But he didn’t. He never had any intention of doing so. And now we see the consequences. Thanks to him, it will be years before we recover from his disastrous party-destroying leadership.

Reading along in this thread, I pinged on your name and it says you are a Tenneseean, not an Arkansan, fmj.

[indylindy]

He isn’t going to get but a speck of black vote. Most will go to Hillary and Obama.

This is not a reason to settle for Huck. If he cannot get the base of the party, which he cannot, he is toast.
Showing up at the MLK day church isn’t going to do a thing. Hell, they will still give Bubba more credit for sleeping through the whole thing than they ever would a Republican.

[LetsRok]

Can someone explain why Bill Clinton is “revered” in the black community?? What did he do that garners such admiration???

[fieldmarshaldj]

Wow, and of course, we all know Arkansas is a million miles away from Tennessee. Get bent, Daffy.

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And what are you suggesting I do, when you say, “get bent?”

[fieldmarshaldj]

Figure it out.

[unspun]

Figure it out.

Tell me to my face -- or keep hiding behind your screen name.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Buzz off.