I Don’t Get It
Mike Huckabee to an NRA convention:
During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
Um, wouldn’t a normal person hit the deck if a gun was aimed at him?
Is joking about a candidate getting assassinated okay all of a sudden?
Then again, maybe Huckabee’s kid was holding the gun.
David Huckabee, a son of Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, was arrested at Little Rock’s airport Thursday after a federal X-ray technician detected a loaded Glock pistol in his carry-on luggage.
Here’s the video. Forward to .50. The funnier thing is that after making the tasteless “joke”, Huckabee goes on to talk about how democracy cannot exist in a moral vacuum. Indeed, Mr. Huckabee. Indeed.
Greg Says:May 16th, 2008 at 9:12 pm
what a dumbass
I hope the NRA leadership publically and loudly denounces that statement
STEEL Says:May 17th, 2008 at 8:34 pm
With these Republicans running against Obama the way they are he may not even need to run his own campaign.
RisingDamp666 Says:May 17th, 2008 at 8:44 pm
What is it about guns that turns stereotypical conservative babbling fools into stereotypical conservative babbling fools?
dougk Says:May 19th, 2008 at 10:55 am
what is it about the nra that turns balanced bloggers into outraged snark meisters?