Huckafool

I've been opposed to Huckabee from the start. He's wrong on just about everything. So I'm not surprised that he has decided to make excuses for the Reverend Wright. Still, consider this statement.

Sermons, after all, are rarely written word-for-word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say, "Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that."

The mind boggles. It's what he said, not how he expressed himself. We're talking about a series of vile statements on various subjects, made over many years, and generally being read while delivered, not to mention follow-up work actually written down that's consistent with these views. These were not stray comments made within longer, more rational speeches. These were the very heart of the speeches.

Furthermore, you don't just blurt out something like AIDS was created by white people to destroy black people. These sorts of statements evince a world-view, a philosophy, not just off the cuff anger (which in itself would be pretty ugly). Good thing Huckabee doesn't represent his party, or we'd have two candidates running for President who put up with this nonsense.