Huckabee Quips About Obama, Gun

[Mikevdog]

Ouch!

[hunterc16]

I honestly cant believe all you people are making such a big deal about this.

Don't you have bigger issues to critize candidates on? like their political views?

Give me a break. Everyone makes jokes about politicians they don't like. Mike Huckabee is no exception

[bon1042]

@hunterc16 When did you ever hear another candidate for the presidency of the United States make a joke about another like this. In front of an NRA crowd, hearing a bang back stage and quickly I must say, coming up with that one... turning it into being a gun (NRA crowd remember) aimed at the first genuine candidacy of a black man in this country, who just may get elected. You're in total denial and you know it. (yes, yes... you do)

[h2opolodan11]

hahaha, Huckabee is the man

[JaketheSnake311]

Great joke.

[btimsah]

lol..Joke gone bad.. People in this country think everything is racist or sexist or bigoted. Lighten up!  He brought up Obama cuzz he's the toast of the town. He coulda said Clinton just as easily and then what would he be? Sexist? Gimme a break.

[geroldfirl]

If it wasn't scripted, and the noise heard offstage was an accident, then yes, it was a "joke gone bad" - just a Freudian slip.

But what if it was staged? What would you say then?

It looks staged to me. Watch the timing of his delivery. If it was extemporaneous, Huckabee would have taken a little more time to formulate this rather elaborate scenario. But his lines were all ready.

That changes it completely. It is a crime to threaten a presidential candidate. Huckabee is a criminal.

[rltolbert]

I don't think it was scripted. I lived in AR when Huck was governor and I am always hard pressed to find something positive to say about him. One thing I can say is that he has a very quick wit. Often, and in my opinion in this case, it gives us a glimpse into what a slimeball Huckabee really is.

[gypsycam]

i can understand your feelings, could even have passed it off as well. but then i read comment somewhere, a guy suggested that this was probablly how the KKK leaders joked about killing Dr King until they found a way to actually do it... Man it all starts with silly jokes until someone says... you its actually possible... we could..... you know the rest

[Kigondol]

Get real people, everybody tells jokes that backfire on them. I'm sure he didn't mean anything by it.

[geroldfirl]

I don't think this was a joke. It looks scripted to me.

Look at the timing of his delivery. He wasn't making that up on the spot.

Who else was involved in this? Who made that noise? Was this Huckabee's idea, or did someone else suggest it to him?

We need a Secret Service investigation into this threat, to find out whether it really was a "joke", or if it was deliberately staged.

I think it was staged, and that would be a deliberate threat to Obama's life. We can't tolerate that.

[btimsah]

You are an idiot.

[Aiursrage2k]

Its not racist, it just means he loathes communists

[TAINOKING]

What's even scarier about that ridiculous joke is the people in the audience laughing. How is having a gun pointed at you and hitting the deck funny? Especially a joke about possibly the 1st black Prez. Racism at its finest. P.s. No candidate or former candidate in this election has made a joke about someone getting shot. Huck is the 1st. Hopefully the last.

[diezelboy00]

who cares what they say about bush. worse president..innocent americans die for name sake everyday. Racist huckabee is jealous. Hell respect him come november when obama runs the world!

[diezelboy00]

hes a racist prick

[wfl18]

it was only a joke

[cantgt1]

Movies and statements about killing Bush are OK. But God forbid anything bad said about the 'mesiah" Obama. You parasite liberals are a bunch of pathetic hypocrites.

[Tranzphonic]

omg people have political bias!!! what a new fucking concept moron. every side is going to make liberal(no pun intended)use of the 1st amendment

[cantgt1]

@ tranzphonic- That is right you dumb ass, but conservatives do not cry anytime someone makes a joke, like little pussy Obama, and all the liberal democRAT goons.

[jaywillie77]

There was one film made about a hypothetical future assassination but YOU DO NOT HEAR liberals making jokes about killing people.

Or are they suddenly not the bleeding heart pussies that conservatives hate?

[cradle2light]

this is SO SICK of a FORMER GOV to Joke ABOUT and Bad Taste for postin it!!!

[hushlimpbaugh]

Wow. given this nations history of gun violence against politicians JFK, RFK, MLK Very irresponsible and in bad taste and not very christian like. No wonder religion is so screwed up.

[Vontood]

This is truly horrible. People, if you don't agree with Obama voice your opinion at the poll. Please god do not take this man away from us. It is not worth it. He has two little girls!!!!... Does Huckabee have a soul! I mean I thought he was a man of the church. I am still in shock.

[Landrew120880]

I think this is a freudian slip. The Republicans will do anything to get the White House again. They fixed the 2004 Presidential Election and so on. You know what they do to achieve their goals. They really like to bring the houses down.

[muklukmama]

If Barack Obama or his former pastor Jeremiah Wright had made a similar comment in refrence to Hillary Clinton or antoher political rival the news media would have made a three ring circus out of it. But when it's a white, Republican, NRA member making the comment there is barely even a ripple. What's wrong with this picture?

[Landrew120880]

Exactly. This is a statement made by a white man to a black man. This guy had the balls to teach the Scriptures? Shame.

[markcodysr]

I agree with missy6953. I mean WTF!!!

[missy6953]

Mike Huckabee should be arrested and charged for making a terroristic threat against a US Senator and a presidential candidate. This should be handled no differently than if a private citizen had made the same comment. He is a disgrace to our nation. This was no joke. I believe he intended to put that out there because it is code to the assassin. That's just what it is. We all need to pray for the safety of Senator Obama.

[leakerichardson]

a remark which is the end of huckabee's chance of becoming the v.p.-thank god.

[adenta]

I used to think he was funny, but now I realize he's really just an idiot.

[skiguru99]

So fickle!

[MooseOfReason]

Come on. It wasn't about Obama's race. It's because Obama is for gun-control. "He dove for the floor."

[Bikingroman25]

This is despicable mr huckabee and you should be ashamed of yourself.

[kountessKatherine]

if the U.S. was attacked by another country & we didn't have guns Who do you think would win? I would never use a gun just to kill someone but I would to protect my family & my freedom

[darkava123]

He's funny, this guy would kickass if he became a president

[cottagecheese54]

what is it about preachers and guns. where in the bible was Jesus packing heat? all i need to see a minister do is support gun rights publicly and i know a man who is no longer serving his God.

[dsling]

Thats pretty damn offensive since Obama has had many death threats as it is.... You don't think some of those racist NRA members wouldn't shoot Obama if they had the chance? Its not even funny to joke about.

[STPfuzzDemon]

Obama would let Iran nuke us. The thought of that is even LESS funny...

[LordDeluge]

Iran doesn't have nukes, STP. And even if they did, said nukes would not have the range to hit us. It's uninformed people like you that make our country less safe.

[Buffalomovie]

this confirms my perceptiom of this guy... He's an IDIOT to say something like that. This is not something that should be tolerated by the Republican party and is on the same level of the manic display of H. Dean a few ywears ago. Why hasn't the media picked up on this... god knows they took Dean to task for something much less serious?!

[nattorro]

he is not even in the running for president any more.

[OldSchoolDetective]

Oh, come on guys. It was just a joke, and it had nothing to do with race. Christ, not everything is about race.

1. The NRA people hate Obama.

2. The NRA people have guns.

3. Obama addressing the NRA would go badly. He wouldn't LITTERALLY get shot, but some people in the audience would want to.

Most political humor is about taking an existing thought and exaggerating it to an extreme.

[jorca71]

Given the current reality, like the fact that Obama actually faces death threats, it's a pretty screwed up joke, especially for a pastor. I guess the Huckster left his WWJD bracelet at the hotel room next to the complimentary Bible.

[STPfuzzDemon]

I think Huckabee was making a crack about Obama implying that anyone who doesn't vote for him got to be a racist who clings to guns and religion. Watch Obama win the black vote in Lousville by 90+%, yet get demolished in the rest of the state. He is unelectable.

[hergs]

What exactly is the joke here?

"HAHA, OBAMA IS AFRAID OF GUNS, CAUSE HE'S A POLITICALLY ACTIVE BLACK PERSON, HARHARHAR" ???

[pimpjuice9304]

He really hurt his party on this one...Sensitive? This isnt the subject...assassination is very sensitive considering that seems to happen often to prominent black figures...This is soo ignorant

[soilworked86]

You ladies are so sensitive.  I'm not a huckleberry fan, but seriously.

[fffffffffffffffffffy]

A white southern governor joking about a black politician getting shot? Great job, huck

[ikekll]

pssst,

hey pusslips (you know who you are),

IT'S NO longer politics as usual!

Clinton, Obama, McCain are out of touch!

A wave is building, can you feel it?

[ikekll]

BTW,

Ted, better watch that intake of viagra ...

those 4 hr erections can be life-threatening!

[marniespeaks]

That was Mike Huckabee a Christian Preacher.

[bigkyle07]

HAHAHA Funny!

Obama stinks!

[leoray1234]

What's so funny about a bigoted remark like that? I liked Huckabee, but I'm very disappointed in him making a nasty comment like that. And a preacher too!

If this is the way leaders of the Republican Party behave, they're just going to fall that much harder in the election.

[ClassicFIHD]

It had nothing to do with race. Obama wants to take away guns. Obama is anti-gun, get it?

[jorca71]

No, I don't think you get it...Barack Obama has been compared, right or wrong, to Abraham Lincoln, Martin Luther King and John F. Kennedy. All three of these men were assassinated using guns. Because of the death threats he has already received, he has had Secret Service assigned to him for 18 months, longer than any other presidential candidate in history. The joke was despicable, weak and pandering. Get it now?

[STPfuzzDemon]

It is after OBAMA that the phrase PANDERMONIUM was coined. Threw his white Grandmother under the bus to get the black vote. Threw his black Reverand under the bus to get the white vote. Threw Michigan and Florida under the bus because he didn't get their votes.

[womanwchild]

"Somebody aimed a gun at him (Obama) and he dove for the floor". Gee, what would Huckabee done if somebody aimed a gun at him?

[vaxarado]

And you wonder why you're not still in this Presidential race?

[mike50333]

...meh...

[hotpink6981]

This type of "humor" illustrates why non-gun owners find NRA members nutty. They say they need their guns to hunt and protect their homes but sometimes the truth slips out.

[arshsingh1984]

Yeah, this coming from a Young Earth Creationist.

[Y2ANJ]

Well that didn't go down well.

[xs1ner]

wow

not funny

[STPfuzzDemon]

So what, most of Huckabee's stuff IS funny. Obama pretending to be 'black' is not funny...

[dogstar7]

Not funny.