Huckabee jokes about gun aimed at Obama

Breit Bart/AP ^ | 16 May 2008 | AP

[af_vet_rr]

"Hearing a loud noise and interrupting his speech, Huckabee said: "That was Barack Obama. He just tripped off a chair. He's getting ready to speak and somebody aimed a gun at him and he—he dove for the floor."

[evets]

"Can I get me a huntin' license he'yah?"

[trisham]

Bizarre.

[elizabetty]

And yeah, Huckabee is a moron. I voted Keyes in the Texas Primary.

Yeah, because Keyes jumping into a Mosh Pit to get Michael Moore's endorsement is not moronic.

[spectre]

It's not the first dumb ass thing he's said and it won't be his last..

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[rightwinggoth]

cue the predictable cries of ‘racism’ and barack obama’s hackneyed, sanctimonious comments about how he’s had to deal with adversity like this all throughout the election cycle.

[eureka!]

Idiot. Nice way to change the discussion off Hamas you dolt...

[af_vet_rr]

I welcome a Huckabee VP - even in light of a pandering joke.

If it was a "pandering joke" then Huckabee is telling the world that he thinks Republicans and the NRA find jokes about assassination attempts against Presidential candidates to be funny.

He makes me and everybody else who has ever owned a gun or voted for a Republican look bad.

[M203M4]

Scenario:

1. Someone points a gun at Obama.
2. Obama jumps to the ground with a crash.
3. LOL??????

Can someone explain the joke to me? I’m generally good at understanding jokes, but I don’t get this one.

(The GOP may be stuck with a dud, but at least they dodged this bullet)

[af_vet_rr]

I’m sure race will be brought into, but it shouldn’t be - it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with making piss-poor jokes about a very serious issue in front of a group whose reputation could be seriously damaged by such a joke.

[Miss Didi]

The more I think about it...here we had Obama digging his political grave and W and McCain on a high note for a change and then along comes the Huckster, afraid he's not getting any attention, and he goes and shoots off his stupid mouth with one of his lame attempts at humor. Now he will be on center stage all weekend. Will somebody please tell this clown to get off the stage.

[greatvikingone]

You read assassination where it isn’t written. [shrug]

[fish hawk]

Hell, it's dangerous for a service station attendant to be pumping gas at night. That's why we all should be “carrying”.

[kalee]

Amen.

[ken21]

si.

like george allen, the presumptive gop presidential

candidate of less than a year ago.

[calcowgirl]

No one was laughing, despite the news coverage account.

Video here:
http://briefingroom.thehill.com/2008/05/16/huckabee-jokes-about-obama-getting-shot-at/

[T. Buzzard Trueblood]

Geez, that was not even slightly funny. Well, I’m glad he said this now, and not after he was already on the ticket...which I hope he will not be.

[pugmama]

A macaca moment..way to go Huckster!

[informavoracious]

I suppose Mr. Comedian makes hijack and bomb jokes on airplanes and kidnapping jokes in kindergartens. Some things are just not funny. We can loathe BHO’s politics and personality (and we do) without making lame jokes that could be misconstrued. Don’t quit your day job, there, Muckabee. What was it, anyway?

[CatherinePPP]

It was just a joke. But unfortunately it wasn’t very funny and when jokes aren’t funny they often come out sounding very very bad.

I like Huckabee but he’s not a good choice for vice president. McCain needs somebody dignified and very unifying who almost no Republicans in the country have any problem with. It doesn’t have to be somebody perfect, just somebody no Republicans have any serious reason to dislike, who won’t say anything stupid during the campaign. McCain will say enough stupid things for two I am sure.

[af_vet_rr]

You read assassination where it isn’t written. [shrug]

When it involves a Presidential candidate being shot at, it most definitely falls into the realm of joking about an assassination attempt. Huckabee is lucky he's not some Joe Blow sending the same joke into the newspaper or being overheard somewhere. If he were, the Secret Service would be showing up on his doorstep.