Comments on: Huckabee Defends Wright

By: n-2-me-i-c

n-2-me-i-c — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 18:32:49 +0000

Carmen, There's something going on with these Republican ministers. watch this.

By: Carmen D.

Carmen D. — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 14:28:08 +0000

Hey Sagacious Hillbilly, welcome to the conversation!
“The right is pulling out the old flag and wrapping themselves in it.” You’ve hit on the aspect of the Wright fallout that reveals so much about the Right. “You love this country the way I tell you to or you don’t love it at all!!” And I am not talking about Wright. Turn on Fox or conservative talk radio and all you hear is how “the left” “hates” “this country” and wants to destroy it”. They say the exact kind of things that they are taking Wright to task for. Hypocrites!

By: SagaciousHillbilly

SagaciousHillbilly — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 13:17:50 +0000

WTF, maybe Huckabee is a reasonable and thoughtful man. I tend to agree with everything he said.
I guess he’s no longer lookingfor theVP slot.
Of course, I also wonder why right wing white preachers can say terribly bigotted things about blacks, catholics, jews and gays, then be embraced by right wing candidates for their support, but nobody is appalled by that.
The right is pulling out the old flag and wrapping themselves in it. Love of AmurKKKa, mom and apple pie gets the broadest response. Ya still gotta “love it or leave it.” “Talk nasty about who and whatever, but don’t be steppin on my flag you unpatriotic bastard!”
Patriotism breeds nationalism and nationalism breeds fanatacism.

By: Carmen D.

Carmen D. — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:49:19 +0000

Andre I thought about that too. Still, Huckabee’s stance will alienate quite a number of his supporters in the short term.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:25:33 +0000

…nonetheless, I can appreciate Huckabee having the consciousness to contextualize both Obama’s and Wright’s clearly opposite views. If it were left up to the Ari Fleischers of the world, you’d think that Obama wrote Wright’s sermons for him.

By: Andre

Andre — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:21:40 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if Huckabee ‘defending’ Wright is nothing more than a preemptive damage control strategy employed for when (or if) somebody FINALLY calls out some of those nuts from the Religious Right.