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March 20, 2008
A Conservative in his own mind
"[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..."
Ohfercryinoutloud! "[Y]ou can't hold the candidate responsible for everything that people around him may say or do,"... You most certainly can, and you must, if the candidate makes those people spiritual advisors, quotes them in his book, brings his kids to listen to them week after week, and supports them financially to the tune of $20,000 a pop to help them "spread the word."
Click himself to hear it for yourself, at about minute 4:00.
Posted by LindaSoG at March 20, 2008 12:04 PM
Comments
The guy's creepy enough without your eye treatment, Linda! He's wacked.
Posted by: Jimmy at March 20, 2008 07:33 PM
Heh, yeah, he is creepy, darn creepy, even without the eye treatment, but I just couldn't help myself.
Posted by: LindaSoG at March 20, 2008 08:41 PM
Oh how you Mortals don't understand.....he is my chosen. What "eye" treatment?
Bwah-ha-hahaha.....Vote vote vote for Meeee.
*I mean him....and his (hehheh "partner"....)*
Posted by: Prince of Darkness at March 20, 2008 09:00 PM
wacked is right. good thing he's out of the race.
Posted by: me-sarge at March 20, 2008 09:28 PM