Huckabee’s joke is no less than a veiled call for violence to Obama

Shame on Mike Huckabee. This coming from a “Christian Minister.” Obviously he doesn’t believe in karma, but maybe he’ll start to when he feels the repercussions.

HUCKABEE QUIPS ABOUT GUN AIMED AT OBAMA DURING SPEECH TO NRA CONVENTION

By BRETT BARROUQUERE , Associated Press

Last update: May 16, 2008 - 5:01 PM

LOUISVILLE, Ky. - Republican Mike Huckabee responded to an offstage noise during his speech to the National Rifle Association by suggesting it was Barack Obama diving to the floor because someone had aimed a gun at him.

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.”

There were only a few murmurs in the crowd after the remark.

The Obama campaign had no comment.

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UPDATE: Five hours after making the comments, Huckabee issued the following “apology”:

“During my speech at the N.R.A., a loud noise backstage, that sounded like a chair falling, distracted the crowd and interrupted my speech. I made an off hand remark that was in no way intended to offend or disparage Sen. Obama. I apologize that my comments were offensive. That was never my intention.”

Well Mike, as they say, you can’t un-ring a bell. And you can’t put the bullet back in the gun. Not your intention to offend? As a “minister”, someone who has preached in front of others, you are more than well aware of the power of the word. You are aware of the gateway between thought and speech. This is not the first time you lacked the restraint to keep that gateway closed. Sorry, but apology not accepted. You never should have uttered it in the first place. - Bruce

The New Democracy

Obama WILL BE the Democratic nominee and he WILL WIN IN NOVEMBER. Hands down. He IS Change. He is Hope. Can he deliver? Of course yes, that remains to be seen. But I’m willing to take the gamble that others are. The man is perceptive. He understands how we’re off course, and sees the means to correct it. So why not give him the benefit of the doubt.

John McCain? He’s a good Senator. Let him stay there. He shouldn’t overreach as Bush did. Some people can be stars in a smaller universe.

I was once a great Hillary supporter and still admire her. She’s a force of nature. But she doesn’t embody a truly new design. Obama’s not scared of talking to our enemies. Does that mean he’s going to give in? Maybe, just maybe, he’s trying to find a way to co-existence that we don’t have right now. Maybe, just maybe, he can stabilize foreign interests in a way that we haven’t seen in recent eras.

Sorry Hillary and all her steel-hard ardent supporters, but Barack Obama is the new Bill Clinton. He’s going to win. And we should do everything to support that.

Vote for Change.

The Biggest Loser?… We are… Until we change our minds.

My fellow American readers and others who would like to elevate our understanding:

Who are we? What do we believe? How do we act on that understanding? How do we manifest our beliefs? And our intentions?

These are questions that most U.S. high school students right now have a difficulty in understanding, let alone answering. In some states half our kids don’t even graduate. That’s right. In the richest country on earth, we’ve achieved mediocrity and are mired in stupidity thanks to ignorance. And gun violence? Feel free to equate it to education. Because statistically, there is a correlation.

Thinking. Awareness. Understanding. Compassion. Unity.

If you believe in all of the above, then well, why not Obama?… Okay fine, he’s not your Washington insider. He doesn’t have the ‘real managerial experience’… (George W., the Governor of Texas, mismanaged everything he touched. How’s that for ‘experience’?)

But judgment, understanding, vision, and forethought… wouldn’t it be nice to experience these? Weren’t these what the framers of the Constitution had in mind?

It’s our choice. And I’ve never before forced my opinion onto others, but if we don’t vote Obama and vote McCain, then we’re seriously out-of-step. McCain is a vote for more fear and more pain vs. hope and the nearest thing to nirvana we could hope for.

You like pain? I’m tired of it. It’s up to you. And me. Every single one of us.

Be conscious. Vote consciousness. Vote a paradigm shift.

Is Obama likely to make mistakes? Everyone one of us makes mistakes. How do we grow and transform them? I’m willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. His behavior so far has spoken volumes.

Give the Hill something BIG

I love Hillary Clinton. I don’t wish to see her go away empty handed. Personally I think the Veep role is for shits unless you change it to mean something. Plus, I don’t see how she can be the VP nominee when some of her own supporters say she shouldn’t take it. I would give her a new Cabinet role (forget Health and Human Services) called the Health Czar. She’s in charge of getting universal health care and it becomes a huge legacy she leaves. God, wouldn’t that be spectacular. I’d give her sainthood after that!

However, we need something immediate. We need to do something big right now so she can feel grace in losing. Can’t we rename her the Queen Mother or something?  Or maybe America’s First Big Momma. Parade her around and throw roses and shed some tears.  Maybe erect a statue in her honor and stick it high atop the Capitol Dome.  Do a Kennedy Center tribute to her and let the American Idols serenade her. Name a holiday after her and we all get free health care on that day. It’s got to be something big and fluffy and wonderful. And then O goes down on one knee and genuflects, she knights him with her sword or granddaddy’s big gun, and it’s complete.  Balloons rain down and Garth Brooks sings his original song dedicated to her:  “Jesus, Me, and Our mother Hillary”.

To the Hill: You broke both ankles - stop running!

In the Kentucky Derby, the lone filly in the race, Eight Belles, lost to BIG BROWN, a more inexperienced horse.

That’s an eerie omen in itself for the Hill.

What’s worse of course is that the filly both broke ankles, collapsed and had to be euthanized.

The question is: will the Democratic party have to euthanize the HIll, or will she realize she better do it herself. If she tries to make this a bloody battle to the finish, she may diminish her power, prestige, and likeability within the party and make it even more difficult if she wants to ever again run for the presidency.

There’s an opportunity right now to still place second AND be a winner. But the winner part may slip away if she’s not careful.