Folks, you have to believe me when I tell you that I would love to go a day without blogging about the wingnuts among us and their day to day "wingnuttery" , but I can't. Forget Charlie Sheen, he is an entertainer, he could have a meltdown a day for the rest of his life and I could care less. (BTW, just to show you where we are as a country, watch the kind of numbers his 20/20 interview pulls tonight.) But a politician who might lead our country one day is quite another story.
"Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee mistakenly said President Obama was raised in Kenya during an interview yesterday in which he argued that the president's upbringing in Africa gave him a very different outlook on the world than that held by most Americans.
WOR radio host Steve Malzberg asked the former Arkansas governor to weigh in on the "birther" debate. Huckabee sidestepped, saying: "I would love to know more, but what I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example's very different than the average American."
Huckabee later stated that Obama's perspective was shaped by "growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather." Listen to the complete audio here.
After the interview made the national news Tuesday, Huckabee's team told ABC News that the governor simply misspoke and meant Indonesia, not Kenya. "Governor Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in 'Kenya.' The Governor meant to say the President grew up in Indonesia," Huckabee's political action committee director Hogan Gidley told ABC. However, Kenya was under British rule, while Indonesia was under Dutch control.
Much misinformation and controversy surround the president's birth and childhood.
The president's father was Kenyan, but met Obama's mother in Hawaii where Obama was born. President Obama did spend a portion of his childhood in Indonesia before returning to Hawaii. Obama first visited Kenya as an adult.
"Birthers," those who believe Obama is not a natural born citizen, continue to drive conspiracy theories about the president's nationality.
Republican leaders have recently been asked to weigh in on the issue of birthers following a poll that showed 51 percent of GOP primary voters falsely believe Obama was not born in the United States. Speaker John Boehner and tea party star Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have each addressed the issue in recent weeks saying they personally believe Obama is a citizen. But Boehner added that he won't actively dissuade the public from believing otherwise."[More]
"Presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee mistakenly said President Obama was raised in Kenya during an interview yesterday in which he argued that the president's upbringing in Africa gave him a very different outlook on the world than that held by most Americans.
WOR radio host Steve Malzberg asked the former Arkansas governor to weigh in on the "birther" debate. Huckabee sidestepped, saying: "I would love to know more, but what I know is troubling enough. And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example's very different than the average American."
Huckabee later stated that Obama's perspective was shaped by "growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather." Listen to the complete audio here.
After the interview made the national news Tuesday, Huckabee's team told ABC News that the governor simply misspoke and meant Indonesia, not Kenya. "Governor Huckabee simply misspoke when he alluded to President Obama growing up in 'Kenya.' The Governor meant to say the President grew up in Indonesia," Huckabee's political action committee director Hogan Gidley told ABC. However, Kenya was under British rule, while Indonesia was under Dutch control.
Much misinformation and controversy surround the president's birth and childhood.
The president's father was Kenyan, but met Obama's mother in Hawaii where Obama was born. President Obama did spend a portion of his childhood in Indonesia before returning to Hawaii. Obama first visited Kenya as an adult.
"Birthers," those who believe Obama is not a natural born citizen, continue to drive conspiracy theories about the president's nationality.
Republican leaders have recently been asked to weigh in on the issue of birthers following a poll that showed 51 percent of GOP primary voters falsely believe Obama was not born in the United States. Speaker John Boehner and tea party star Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) have each addressed the issue in recent weeks saying they personally believe Obama is a citizen. But Boehner added that he won't actively dissuade the public from believing otherwise."[More]
Is there a republiclown left in this country with a brain? I saw the tan- man on television trying to side step the issue when pressed by David Gregory, and it was painful to watch. But I guess I can't blame them for playing politics. Not when 51% of their primary voters believe that O wasn't born here.
Finally, will someone please tell the LA Clippers that Black History Month was in February?
WTF? Love Blake Griffin, hate the franchise and their racist owner.
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