As a Christian myself, I'm a little bit puzzled, if not also annoyed, by the public comments made by former Presidential candidate-turned-talk show host Mike Huckabee this week.
First, Huckabee made a bonehead play by mistakenly giving the dreaded birthers some ammo by implying that President Obama had spent his formative years in Kenya. It's bad enough that the birthers won't go away and won't give up their losing battle, forever claiming that the President was actually born in Kenya, not in Hawaii as his birth certificate maintains. Huckabee must've bumped his head on a door somewhere waking up one day. Nothing worse than giving a bunch of morons a reason to continue their pointless crusade of cretinism.
Then, just to prove his credibility with the Beavis & Butt-Head types in this country, Huckabee pulled a Dan Quayle and ripped into Oscar winner Natalie Portman, who is also an unwed expectant mother. For those that don't get the Quayle reference, the former Vice President made headlines while in office, I believe, for ripping a storyline on the sitcom Murphy Brown, in which the title character (Candice Bergen) was also having a child out of wedlock. Either way, it is representative of a common social problem that has been in this country for decades.
Huckabee, in both cases, may have damaged any chance he might have of getting the Republican nomination should he try to run again next year. There must be something about the governor's mansion in Arkansas that leaves a lasting, if not also damaging, effect on those who've served in that office. We all know what happened to Bill Clinton when he went from being governor to President nearly 20 years ago. Is Huckabee trying too hard to be the GOP's answer to ol' Bubba? Pray that's not the case, although foot-in-mouth disease apparently is a job hazard, as are earning a set of weasel ears for saying stupid things in a public forum in inappropriate, inopportune times.
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