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Apparently, the folks at the NRA thought it was a riot…
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May 16th, 2008 at 6:23 pm
I will be the one to say out loud what even the article itself would not: Obama, as potentially the first black presidential candidate from a major party, is quite literally within the crosshairs of every hate-mongering racist in America. We think they’re dumb and harmless. Timothy McVeigh wasn’t harmless. James Earl Ray wasn’t harmless. It was well known in the early ’60s that a group of white supremacists had placed a “bounty” on the head of Martin Luther King. These folks are still around, and I guarantee you that at least one of them is going to try to kill Obama. Everyone I know in politics firmly believes this, but none will say it out loud. The Secret Service certainly believes it; Obama has more protection than McCain, the, as they say, “presumptive” nominee of his party. This is real and someone needs to talk about it.
Now, that having been said, what Huck said was, in response to a chair falling over, “Oh, that was just Obama diving for cover; someone pointed a gun at him.” Now, bearing in mind all the above, which Huck knows far better than you or I, you tell me: Was that in good taste?
May 17th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
Governor Huckabee probably shouldn’t of said this, but he isn’t a racist, Obama is for gun control, that in itself is enough not to vote for him. Again, I don’t understand why white folks are considered racist simply because they won’t vote for Obama, can we not vote for him because we disagree with him, not because of his color? If he were lily white, I wouldn’t vote for him.
May 17th, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Huck didn’t joke about anyone pointing a gun at any of his white opponents, which is perhaps because no one is gunning for him or his white opponents. As for gun control, the people who are against it are usually the people doing the shooting, rather than the ones being shot. As long as we have incident after incident in which white cops shoot black suspects for no reason, there’s going to be this tension. Police brutality to blacks was one of the centerpieces to Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech, and it’s even truer today.
May 17th, 2008 at 4:34 pm
Caleb, I’m totally against gun control, I have to disagree that many who hunt like myself, have ever been out to shoot anyone. I hope and pray I’m never in a position of life or death where I have to make that decision. Gun control isn’t fair to the ones who are law abiding, you may or may not disagree with that. As far as policeman, many are creeps, I admit that, but it isn’t just toward blacks and minorities, but you have to admit, they have a dangerous job, when you have someone shooting at you, you don’t have time to figure out the race or color, I sure wouldn’t want their job.
May 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Regardless, this comment was tacky at best and would have been best left unsaid.
May 20th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
I agree.