There’s isn’t much that Mike Huckabee stands for that I agree with, but he’s right when he says that a campaign based on demonizing Barack Obama isn’t going to work:
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.
I doubt that the Kool-Aid drinkers and the Hannity crowd will listen to him, but he’s right.
H/T: The Moderate Voice
June 18th, 2008 at 1:08 pm
OK, so where does legitimate criticism of his record end and demonization begin?
Unless Huck answers that question, the GOP might as well pack it up and set the alarm clock for 2016.
June 18th, 2008 at 1:19 pm
It ends at the point where people continue bringing up Reverend Wright, Father Pflager, and Michelle Obama. None of whom are running for President.
It ends at the tongue of dipwads like Rush Limbaugh who spent the first 15 minutes of his show today talking about an Obama staffer who apparently mis-treated a woman wearing a Muslim headscarf, and it especially ended at the point where he incorrectly referred to the hajib as a burkha.
It ends with the idiots in the Texas GOP who apparently did nothing while a vendor handed out racially offensive buttons at the convention last week.
It ends with the nonsense over not wearing a flag lapel pin or the lie that Obama doesn’t put his hand over his heart during the Pledge of Allegeince.
Demonizing Barack Obama is only going to make a bad election year worse.
I wrote about this in a post yesterday — the problem that John McCain has is that his supporters aren’t enthusiastic for him, talking about what’s wrong with the other guy isn’t going to win the election.
July 6th, 2008 at 12:05 am
Huckabee’s mostly right — we should all stick to the issues when examining candidates for president. I personally, however, can tell a lot about a person by the company they choose to keep for 20 years.
HOWEVER… be that as it may, let’s leave Wright, et al. out of it for a minute, and just talk about what Sen. Obama believes in.
He believes it’s OK to let a baby who somehow survived an abortion, just die on the table. Don’t believe it? Do a Google search on “Obama + Born Alive Infants Protection Act.” He voted this way TWICE while he was a state senator.
While a U.S. Senator, he voted to protect the gruesome procedure known as “Partial Birth Abortion,” in which a LIVE baby is delivered feet-first, up to the neck… then the abortionist reaches into the birth canal with scissors and cuts a hole in the baby’s skull. Then he suctions out the brains. Finally he crushes the baby’s skull with forceps, and pulls out the rest of the now-dead baby. Don’t believe it? Look it up!
These are only some of many reasons why I’m voting against Obama.