Huckabee "misspoke"...

[cynatnite]

Mike Huckabee, who has never indulged paranoia about Obama's birth -- and who has generally chided vitriolic attacks on the president and First Lady -- pretty clearly misspoke in a radio interview today, prompting a boomlet of outrage.

Says his spokesman Hogan Gidley to POLITICO:

“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.”

“When the Governor mentioned he wanted to know more about the President, he wasn’t talking about the President’s place of birth – the Governor believes the President was born in Hawaii. The Governor would however like to know more about where President Obama’s liberal policies come from and what else the President plans to do to this country – as do most Americans.”

One other correction to Huckabee's interview: President Obama didn't return a bust of Winston Churchill to the British; he moved it from the Oval Office to the residence.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0311/Huckabee_didnt_mean_it.html

Damn, these repubs misspeak a lot. :rofl:

[tabatha]

1. Yep, I wonder who the colonial English were in Indonesia.

[otohara]

6. There's A Reason He Works For FOX

lying is part of the job.

[ejpoeta]

2. there is a difference between 'misspoke' and lied. that's like my kids

when they accidentally hit someone. but it wasn't an accident at all. i don't let my kids get away with that and i don't know why anyone else should....

[tabatha]

3. It was a lie.

There were no Mau-mau in Indonesia, which was a Dutch colony not a British colony.

[ejpoeta]

4. i know. that is what i am saying. why is it no one ever likes to call it what it is.

it's a lie. call it that.

[tabatha]

7. Yep, you are right.

Call a spade a spade. It was a lie, and nothing else.

[XOKCowboy]

5. Republicans sure do "misspeak" a lot...

Of course his original comments are out there for all to see. This "retraction" is just par for the course.

[walldude]

9. Hey bro...

LTNS... everything good?

[XOKCowboy]

14. Hey bro!!

Was thinking about you this evening. I'm hanging in there. Off to Austin Monday for 21 days for the rodeo. Need the work.

How are you and the family?

[walldude]

21. Not bad... I'll be in Tx myself for the Houston Rodeo

I'll say high to Zoli for ya!

[walldude]

8. Oh for fucks sakes they can't even get the facts right in the apology

THe Churchill bust was returned to England. Just as planned. It was offered to Obama to keep it but he declined. The Brits sort of took offense. No biggie.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/4623148/Barack-Obama-sends-bust-of-Winston-Churchill-on-its-way-back-to-Britain.html

[JBoy]

10. In between stretches of decency, Huckabee's inner scumbag gets revealed.

He's dangerous.

[fishwax]

11. yeah. right.

[Karia]

12. And he just kept misspeaking over and over...

Hawaii, Indonesia, Kenya, what's the diff? They are all exotic foreign places with colored people as far as Huckabee's audience is concerned.

[spanone]

13. hey huck, words have meaning....

[old mark]

15. K&R. Oh, Huckabee...you lying asshole....Oh, wait, I misspoke...

You lying fucking asshole.....;)

mark

[progressoid]

16. If his mouth is open, then he misspoke.

[malaise]

17. ReTHUGS misspeak

deliberately

[WCGreen]

18. Where the fuck di Huckleberry get his nightmarish version of

conservatism....

[rpannier]

19. Neither Kenya nor Indonesia are in America

So his followers wouldn't know the difference

Prior to Obama getting elected they probably thought Kenya was the way people in the New England States pronounce Kansas and that Indonesia was the state between Illinois and Ohio

[tkmorris]

20. "President Obama’s liberal policies"

Yeah, I'd like to know more about those myself. Like, just where the hell ARE they?

And Huckabee is an asshole.

[AtomicKitten]

22. Leave a message "misspeaking" to MHuckabee at 501-324-2008 #2.

nt

[SoCalDem]

23. Yup.. Those damned Mau-Maus are everywhere y'know..

they pretty much ruined Indonesia:)