Spokesman says Huckabee 'simply misspoke' about Obama's childhood

[stevedeshazer]

Source: Los Angeles Times

In a radio interview, potential GOP presidential candidate Mike Huckabee said Barack Obama grew up in Kenya with his father and grandfather. A spokesman for the former Arkansas governor says he made a simple mistake.

Reporting from Washington —
Mike Huckabee made a slip of the tongue when saying in an interview that President Obama lived in Kenya, a spokesman for the possible GOP presidential contender said Tuesday.

"Gov. Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in Kenya. The governor meant to say the president grew up in Indonesia," said J. Hogan Gidley, who works for Huckabee's political action committee.

Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor, seemed to be adding fuel to the apparently never-ending brushfire over the president's origins in a Monday interview with a conservative radio host when he suggested that "having grown up in Kenya" Obama would view the British as imperialists.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-huckabee-obama-20110302,0,2888247.story

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Okay, Mike.

If you say so, buddy.

[CakeGrrl]

1. Such BS - throwing red meat to the birthers.

Disgusting and underhanded, Huckabee.

[PurgedVoter]

40. Now we will see if he is actually a Christian.

Of course a real Christian would know that committing false witness is a terrible sin. A real Christian, would repent. That means literally to turn around. A real Christian would give up pride and put truth first. He would confess his sin and never do it again.

A Christian, is a hard thing to be. Reason we actually see so few. A real actual Christian would not put power, pride and profit before truth. Saying he misspoke after going on in that fashion. Compounding lie after lie. Sadly examples like him are the reason why Christianity is getting such a poor reputation. How pitiful an example. Sad really.

[Drale]

2. Usually when you "miss speak" you are voicing your true thoughts

therefore Mike is a horrible raciest and should never be allowed to run for any office let alone president.

[babylonsister]

3. Then he's too stoopid to run...for anything, or to write a book. Ugh. nt

[Arkana]

4. Bull. He threw red meat to the birthers and now he's trying to step back

so he doesn't get marginalized.

[AlinPA]

7. ? His saying that the President grew up in Kenya should endear him to the republican party. nt

[Arkana]

50. To the birthers, sure--but not to the mainstream GOP

You know, the guys who have all the money?

If Huck had Presidential ambitions they just took a crippling blow with this little slip-up.

[AlinPA]

54. The teabaggers run the show now and they eat up that birther stuff. Fifty one percent of

republicans think Obama was born in another country. He's pandering to the whole party, not just birthers.
http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&cd=9&ved=0CFwQFjAI&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DP9sO9z6hAzU%26feature%3Dyoutube_gdata_player&ei=O3duTfPaB8aAlAfk3tB0&usg=AFQjCNHkm6VUSADLYbjDKBRf016fZvyJuA

[Orrex]

5. That's like the time when I misspoke and noted that Huckabee once dug up and sodomized a corpse

Golly, was my face red that time!

[Grassy Knoll]

18. Now i'm bummed......

All this time I thought it was true.

[Bandit]

52. Always wondered, did he have to take off his hood and sheet to do that?

:shrug: And is his word sufficient enough, if he says he doesn't belong to the Klan, or do we need the long form of his resignation?

[Kingofalldems]

6. Dog whistle to the freepers

[AlinPA]

10. He is making up to the republicans for praising both Obamas last week. nt

[OHdem10]

8. Is Huckabee going to make a public statement especially

more than once on his show????

[jpak]

9. He misspoke at length - lying GOP POS

yup

[Ilsa]

11. From now on, when GOPers use the term "misspoke", just replace it with "LIED."

Lets call it what it is: a lie meant to mislead voters. And Huckabee is a LIAR.

[patrice]

12. 3 years from the time he was 3years old until he was 6 hardly qualifies as having grown-up.

[starroute]

28. What are you talking about? Obama lived in Hawaii until he was 6

He did live in Indonesia between the ages of 6 and 10. But that's kind of irrelevant to what's going on here.

The problem is that Huckabee didn't just make a slip of the tongue and say "Kenya" in place of "Indonesia." He went on at some length about how Obama was raised in Kenya by his father and grandfather, absorbed their worldview, and grew to resent the British imperialists who had tortured his grandfather. It was an elaborate and totally bizarre fantasy, and he'd going to have to do better than pleading "misspoke."

[patrice]

33. Pardon my error. My basic point is that the brief period of time we're talking about here can hardly

be considered to be equal to having "grown up" in Indonesia, or Kenya for that matter.

[jbnow]

49. So right! Mau Mau Uprising and the torture by British

Of course all causing Obama to think so differently from average Americans.
This was no slip of the tongue.

His dad was gone by the time he was 2, he never net his paternal grandfather.
Maybe he meant living in Indonesia in part of elementary school with a baby sister and his mom waking him at 5 am to study with her was a form of torture?
That is one slippery tongue. Stupid or lying? We report, you decide.

[patrice]

13. Republicans/Tea Baggers consider their kids grown-up/capable of fending for themselves at 6 yearsold

[patrice]

14. No wait a minute, THAT'S other people's kids. Their own stay on the dole for life. nt

[Kennah]

15. Pardon me, Mike

[PSPS]

16. Why does a guy who pardons cop killers garner this kind of attention in the first place?

[Kurmudgeon]

42. Because compared to the other current GOP presidential contenders, he is still the most electable.

I know that's not saying much, but it is what it is.
I'm just dreading when they decide to force another Oil/Munitions heir on us.

[Sonoman]

17. Happens to me all the time. (Kenya/Indonesia) They both end with "a".

Simple slip of the tongue.

Lighten up, folks.

Sonoman

[yurbud]

19. the birthers hear the BS and miss the retraction

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. So: "having grown up in Indonesia, Obama would view the British as imperialists"

No, Mike, that does not work. The British were in a few parts of Indonesia around the time of the Napoleonic Wars, but it was a completely Dutch colony from 1824. You meant Kenya, and you know it.

[Mimosa]

21. What an idiot. n/t

[Blacksheep214]

22. I call Bullshit!

nm

[AndyTiedye]

23. If Ya Don't Know What Yer Sayin' Ya Shouldn't be President

A "slip of the tongue" by the President could have very dire consequences. :nuke:

[chollybocker]

24. Mis-speaking is not very Presidential, Mikey.

And this wasn't even a 3 a.m. phone call. How can we ever trust you with The Button?

LOL Preznint Huckleberry. :rofl:

[jberryhill]

25. The Mau Maus were in Indonesia, Huck? And it was British?

Well, maybe he did mis-speak.

When he said "Obama", he really meant "I am".

When he said "grew up in Kenya" he really meant "a fuckwit".

Makes more sense now.

[treestar]

26. He did not grow up in Indonesia entirely, either

And who is Huckabee to decide the opinions of all Kenyans?

This is full of fail.

[tedbear]

27. Liar

Huckabee is supposedly a minister, isn't he????  Maybe
Huckabee's entire existence is a lie too.  There is no way a
person who is breathing can accept the lame explanation that
he "misspoke."  He misspeaks alot if he is a
minister and goes around bold face lying about his intentions,
beliefs and then tries to say he "misspoke" about
President Obama's background.  He said what he said because he
is looking for votes for the next Presidential election but he
is lying to himself if he thinks he can win.

[Blacksheep214]

29. On the other hand

when President Obama said there were 52 states, an actual mis-speak, the quote comes up til this day!

Honest mistakes are one thing but carrying on a lie is quite another.

I see Mikey is getting to be a fat cat again. Must be living the good life as Ruperts puppet!

[bloomington-lib]

30. I'm sick of the term misspoke. It's used way too often, along with untruth.

Huckabee is addicted to porn.....oh I misspoke, I meant food.

[harmonicon]

31. Mike Huckabee was the governor of Kandahar when the taliban were in power. nt.

[fishwax]

32. something tells me it won't be the last time he makes such a "mistake"

:eyes:

[DallasNE]

34. That Is Not Mispeaking

That is deception. Obama's childhood was in Hawaii except for 4 years in Indonesia. Had Huckabee said Obama grew up in Indonesia he would have to had said that Obama would view the Dutch as imperialists, not the British who were imperialists in Kenya. Huckabee needs to stop digging. He said Kenya and meant Kenya, otherwise his statement made no sense.

[Blacksheep214]

35. What I really want to see

is Bush's military paperwork.

Dan Rather got fired over it and the right went spastic in condemning anyone who questioned it.

Equivalency? Fuckin' ay!

I still think Bush was an AWOL fuck up who sent thousands of our best to die over his vendetta.

Birthers can kiss my ass!

[marasinghe]

36. ah! the folksy, likable, non-threatening, gov. hucksterble "unwittingly" stumbles. yeah, right.

channeling bill cosby & raygun who brought the walls a-tumbling down - all the way to the elections.
f*ng repuke politicians are the worst actors & dumbest mouth-breathers, ever to pimp themselves for office.
while their supporters are the stupidest bottom-feeders to enable a bunch of parasites sucking the lifeblood out of society.
i'm starting to believe they might be have hit on something by disbelieving evolution; they, themselves, are the living 'refudiation' of Darwin's theories.

[Blacksheep214]

37. How do you REALLY feel?

:spray:

[marasinghe]

38. stumbling through the rest of my life stoned, so i don't have to notice the train wreck - i think?

:toast:

[applegrove]

39. If you cannot tell the difference between Kenya and Indonesia you should not be President.

[valerief]

41. Mispeak is now officially a synonym for lie. nt

[upi402]

43. Allow me this mispeak regarding Huckabee

Mother &$#@ %%$&*)%% @!@%^ &*+-**ker

[randr]

44. All teabaggers are child rapists

Oops, I mistyped.

[yellowcanine]

45. It could be true. Kenya and Indonesia are very similar and the British were in both - oopsie,

That was the Dutch who were in Indonesia. Oh well. Nice try, anyway, Chuckles.


Why can't he just admit he was reading lying sack of poop Dinesh d'Souza's fairy tale and took it for the truth?

[yellowcanine]

53. And of course everyone knows that the Mau Mau were a HUGH problem in Indonesia.

And that Dutch guy Winston Churchill fixed their wagon and that is why Obama gave the bust of Churchill back to the Dutch.

This stuff is really fun when one gets going.

[yellowcanine]

46. Spewing birther nonsense and then sending your spokesman out to cover for you is just going to make

sure this little episode of know nothingism will live for another news cycle or two. The Huckster is not nearly ready for the prime time of presidential campaigning and it appears he never will be. He is looking more and more like Sarah Palin.

[Doctor_J]

47. Lying, sub-human piece of shit

just like every single republican. And I am not misspeaking

[Jennicut]

48. Misspeaking is so in these days, huh Mike?

He knew exactly what he was doing.

[Solly Mack]

51. That was Newt Gingrich's talking point a few short months ago.

So it was no mistake or accident or slip of the tongue. Nor was it that he 'simply misspoke'...


“What if (Obama) is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together (his actions)?” Gingrich told the Review, adding that “this is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president.”

[VermeerLives]

55. Well, I think he did misspeak; everyone does at one time or another; however,

the Huckster is just flapping his mouth too much. I don't trust him.