Huckabee defends Wright

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[hotdog777]

An assist from an unexpected quarter:

"[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do," Huckabee says. "It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what ... Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago. 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 Rev. 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 didn't mean to say it quite like that.'"

Later, he defended Wright's anger, too:

"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 gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you — we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names..."

[South40]

Gomer’s a moron.

[central_va]

words escape me....jaw slacked hanging to floor...UFB

[Las Vegas Ron]

Ditto that!!

[rintense]

Further proof Huckabee is a buffoon- and more than likely guilty of equally inflamatory statements in his own church.

[Zevonismymuse]

Someone misses being on television every night......

[padre35]

As much as I like Huck, this is unacceptable, I have a long memory for stuff like this, and Huck crossed the line here.

[central_va]

Further proof Huckabee is a buffoon

Quit insulting buffons

[444Flyer]

Is the Huckster clamoring for an Obama V.P. position?

[rintense]

Where is the slack for Robertson and Falwell?

If you excuse Wright's commentary then you also have to excuse every other religious/political figure that has made stupid, racist, anti-gay, etc. remarks as well.

Geez Huck is stupid.

[We Dare Defend Our Rights]

And he’s our idiot.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[Blue Turtle]

IMUS, MICHAEL RICHARDS...disciplined, cast-outs....WRIGHT...sympathy, rewarded, uncle.

[rintense]

Probably, since he knows he doesn’t have a chance in hell with McCain.

[OSHA]

I warned people early on that the huckster was this -><- close to being a liberation theologist.

[johnny7]

Gomer’s a moron.

Anybody who voted for him surely is...

[bmwcyle]

Ditto

[SE Mom]

And there were FReepers wondering WHY we weren’t supporting this man for POTUS...

[Red Badger]

Okay, where did all the Huckabee supporters go?.........

[rintense]

Many here saw through his chicanery from the get go.

[padre35]

I can understand Huck having some compassion for the man, he was a Pastor after all, however, to play Apologia via Era is just plain stupid....there..I said it.

[11th Commandment]

I understand the argument that older blacks who grew up pre civil rights would have more bitterness. But for CHRIST’s sake, he is a PASTOR. He should be preaching forgiveness, the love of Christ and the UNITY of the body.

[RinaseaofDs]

Pinging. This is your candidate. Still think church and politics mix?

Obama probably doesn’t think so, but this shill certainly does. Huck hasn’t got the sense God gave gophers. At least a gopher wouldn’t stick his head up when the mower was on.

He’s done in politics, except in Arkansas, where they clearly have issues.

[kingu]

and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this

A conservative in his own mind.. Shocking how many around this forum drank the koolaid.

[smith288]

Sorry Huck. You cant defend what Wright, as a man of God, said. Its poison for the spiritual mind.

[NeoCaveman]

(/Scrappleface on)

Reverend Huckabee defended Reverend Jeremiah Wright today saying “lighten up people, it’s not like he’s a Mormon or anything”

[CarryingOn]

Huckabee wants to join the rush back to 1965.

[tobyhill]

Huckleberry is completely wrong here. He was a guest speaker at the same church as I go to and never has there been any comments come out of the pastor’s mouth even close to what Wright has said.

[RepublitarianRoger2]

Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment.

And almost always, in those moments, a man's true nature is revealed.

Huck's an idiot. I bet Wright didn't expect to get support from a g*d-damn redneck honky cracker whitey, though.

[meandog]

Further proof Huckabee is a buffoon- and more than likely guilty of equally inflamatory statements in his own church.

It is a documented fact that white Southern Baptist churches were a bastion of "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" sermons click here ; which is one reason I always looked at Jimmah Carter and Slick Willie Clinton with jaundiced eyes. Progressive white churches during the Civil Rights struggle in the South--Roman Catholic, Episcopal, Lutheran, some Presbyterians and a sprinkling or two of Methodists--that's about it.

[vaudine]

Proof Huckleberry isn't smart enough to be president. You CAN hold Obama responsible for whom he fraternizes with in his close personal and religious life, whom he choses for a mentor, and sitting for 20 years in a church where people are loudly agreeing with a hatefilled pastor telling them it is all white America's fault.

Go home to Ark. Huck and shut up.

vaudine

[Titus Quinctius Cincinnatus]

words escape me....jaw slacked hanging to floor...UFB

Slack-jawed yokel slacks jaws of non-yokels?

[AxelPaulsenJr]

Huckabee says. "It's interesting to me that there are some people on the left who are having to be very uncomfortable with what ... Wright said, when they all were all over a Jerry Falwell, or anyone on the right who said things that they found very awkward and uncomfortable, years ago.

[Maceman]

"[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do,"

You can if the candidate makes those people spiritual advisors, brings his kids to listen to them week after week, and sends them donations amounting to more than $20,000 at a clip so that they continue to do all the things they're saying and doing.

[Niteranger68]

God almighty! Huck you are a f**king LOSER! Having to tolerate McCain doesn’t mean we also have to put up with your turn-the-other-cheek BS! Go away you retarded monkey!

[faq]

Yes, my earlier suspicions that we could have done worse than McCain I believe now are correct.

[Greg F]

Wright has the right to say anything he wants to . . . he’s an American and has the same right to free speech we all are guaranteed in the 1st Amendment. As voters we have the right to vote against Obama because he has sat in a pew for 20 years and listened to Wright spew out racist and anti-american sermons, and has refused to repudiate him . . . and Obama had Wright baptize him, his daughters, marry him, and Obama lifted the title of his book from this preacher.

[NRA2BFree]

THIS is why he was soundly defeated in the run for the GOP candidate for President. He’s nutz!!

[philled]

It galls me that Huck had no problem dropping acrimonious inferences about Mormonism but ignores the most troubling aspect of Obambi’s church- the separatist, ethno-nationalist, racist liberation theology.

[Diplomat]

Where are all the Huckleberries? Where are the Mitt-haters? Where are all the bigots I so enjoyed reading with all their knowledge of Mormanism and who is or isn’t a Christian?

So Hucklebee’s position is the same as the MSM, only whites can be racist. How big of him.

Come on Huckabee fans, lets here from you now?

[444Flyer]

Seriously, this is bizarre. Why is he legitimizing Wright when any sane person can see he’s a wack job racist? He’s doing this a day after Obama’s defense speech. It appears he is now working for the Obama campaign, whether he intends to or not.

[Palladin]

Seems you were right.

Huckabee will never have a comeback in national politics.

[rob777]

"Further proof Huckabee is a buffoon- and more than likely guilty of equally inflamatory statements in his own church."


A preemptive strike in preparation for his next campaign?

[IMissPresidentReagan]

The real question is Did Huck do this on his own or at the behest of McCain? Either way, sad state of affairs for Republican Party...the Repubs seems determined to loose in spite of themselves.

[rob777]

"And he’s our idiot."


I claim no ownership.

[steve-b]

Huckabee really has no choice; it wouldn’t take Sherlock Holmes to dig up a few “Christian” crackpots who’ve endorsed him.

[2ndDivisionVet]

And there were people on this site supporting this open-borders, tax-hiking, leftist Gomer Pyleesque buffoon?!! What the Hell were they thinking?

[MEGoody]

[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do," Huckabee says.

But you can hold them responsible for continuing to attend a church for 20 years where this kind of hatred is preached. You can hold them accountable for taking their children to that church so that they can be indoctrinated into hatred.

Huck, you're an idiot.

[Albion Wilde]

Further proof Huckabee is a buffoon- and more than likely guilty of equally inflamatory statements in his own church.

CAN I GET AN AMEN???!!??

[steve-b]

Where is the slack for Robertson and Falwell?

As I said, the loony-toons on the Republican side paint GOP candidates into a corner, where they have no choice but to agree that attacks on these grounds are out of bounds.

It's like the old Mutually Assured Destruction nuclear doctrine.