They said it.

 
"I don't understand what I did wrong except live a life that everyone is jealous of." -Charlie Sheen. Ah, Charlie, we'll always have Wall Street.

 
“Every state has different demographics, every state has different problems. It’s good to allow them to work out their own problems rather than a one-size-fits-all federal government stupid, dumbass program.” -U.S. Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) These one-size-fits-all programs like the criminalization of bigamy get up my nose, too. Newsflash, senator: Obama offers states the right to tailor Obamacare to local conditions.  

 
“If you think about it, [Obama]'s perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather, their view of the Mau Mau Revolution in Kenya is very different than ours because he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather.” -Mike Huckabee, Uranus-born 2012 GOP presidential hopeful, who didn't get the memoes that the president first set foot in Kenya in his 20s. (Italics added.)

 

 

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[Wascally Wabbit]

Excuse me while I rush to post this gem on my FB account

[Darwin O'Connor]

If Huckabee went to American school he would have learned something entirely different: that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his great-great-great-grandfather.

[dolive]

Darwin: A Slate columnist just posted to the same effect, though without the British connection, too bad. I would have posted but it wasn't that strong a piece and I'm Hucked out at the moment. For the record, what perplexes me about the Obama-birther-Muslim-socialist thing is that our own first PM was an immigrant, a CEO who can relate to 1.6 billion Muslims is self-evidently a good thing, and Obama, as progressives whine no end about, is to the right of Clinton and LBJ on social policy. I think, on a good day, that's where his country is, centre-right. He also strikes me as being more all-American than many of his predecessors and contemporaries in D.C. A bit arrogant, a bit of that openness and candor I associate with Americans (compared with Brits and non-immigrant Canadians), loves the military (one of his career options, decided not to sign up because U.S. wasn't at war at the time so there'd be no real challenge). And pro-business and pro-capitalist, hence the too-soft touch in dealing with the Wall Street miscreants.

[dolive]

Yeah, WW, the Huck thing on Obama being raised in Kenya - later amended to growing up in Indonesia - went viral soon after this post, much to my surprise since nonsense like this has been sputtered by so many for so long. I wonder sometimes if these folks read, it must have been my visits with Paul Martin Sr. in retirement, who from his teens read on average a book a day. If you seek high office, in Little Rock or D.C., wouldn't you read historical and contemporary biography, and just know, as we foreigners do, that Obama was abandoned by his natural father in Hawai'i, and lived all of 4 years in Jakarta with his stepdad? I mean, it was in the papers, as they say. Did he go to Christian or Muslim schools and houses of worship? This was wall-to-wall during the 2008 primaries, when Huck was running and if his luck held he might have met Obama in the general. When you put this kind of episode next to the OECD numbers on U.S. low rankings in education achievement, it's just scary for the history of that country.