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but by his atypical generosity toward Obama as well. As conservative pundits were competing with one another to see who could offer the most hyperbolic outrage concerning Jeremiah Wright, Huckabee came to Obama's defense and even, to a limited degree, to Wright's. These hardly seem the acts of someone who would view an Obama presidency as "plague-like." Indeed, insofar as Obama may reinforce McCain's "Christian problem," I don't think it will be because a handful of extremists think his plague-like presidency

but by his atypical generosity toward Obama as well. As conservative pundits were competing with one another to see who could offer the most hyperbolic outrage concerning Jeremiah Wright, Huckabee came to Obama's defense and even, to a limited degree, to Wright's. These hardly seem the acts of someone who would view an Obama presidency as "plague-like." Indeed, insofar as Obama may reinforce McCain's "Christian problem," I don't think it will be because a handful of extremists think his plague-like presidency

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.’” [source: Politico] I wonder what Pastor Huckabee thinks about Reverend Wrights recent rants while speaking before the NAACP, PBS, and the National Press Club.

Politics Links (3/21) State Dept. employees fired for snooping in Obama's passport files. Hee: Onward to Guam! Finally released: First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton's Daily Schedules Interesting alliance: Huckabee defends Obama/Wright. The ultimate smear e-mail: Obama as Antichrist. Sigh. The Times has a profile of Obama's mother. What Obama's bracket might (but probably doesn't) mean. What's going on with the Clinton myth?

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..." Video here: Via Politico, Daily Kos. Posted by John Riley on March 19, 2008 4:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

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…” Read the rest on Ben Smith’s Blog at Politico

What's on our plate today? Osama bin Laden has released a new tape. Obama attacks McCain's Iraq-Iran-Al Qaeda gaffe.McCain's camp attacks Obama's plan for withdrawal. Mike Huckabee defends Obama on the Wright scandal.Hillary Clinton has released her White House schedules. Pennsylvania Congressman Jack Murtha backs Clinton.Clinton also picks up West Virginia super Pat Maroney. New York has another

foot thumping the floor at the beginning of Mark Levin’s show last night as he played audio of Matthews praising Tuesday’s speech by Senator Barack Obama. Yet Mark saved the main salvo for former Governor Mike Huckabee for his defense of the “wrong” Reverend Wright’s sermons and Obama sitting through two decades of them: In addition, Mark explained why we need to cut Senator Hillary Clinton a little slack for the racist rants of supporter Pastor James

institutions to impose mine or anybody else's faith or to restrict." To his credit, Mike Huckabee this morning showed empathy for the suffering of African-Americans under the yoke of slavery and Jim Crow. He also seemed quite willing to cut Reverend Wright a great deal of slack for irredeemable statements contained in incendiary sermons past. But given his own history and the stakes in the Republican VP derby to come, Mike Huckabee's deference isn't surprising at all.

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…” source