Former Arkansas Governor and current FOX News contributor Mike Huckabee, who ran for president in 2008 and is considering another bid, sometimes says the oddest things...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee suggested in a radio interview that President Barack Obama's childhood in Kenya shaped his worldview — even though Obama did not visit Kenya until he was in his 20s.
The potential Republican presidential candidate told New York radio station WOR on Monday that Obama's youth led him to resent the West, which he said explains why Obama's foreign policy differs so greatly from that of his predecessors.
"One thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, (is) very different than the average American," Huckabee said, pointing to Obama's decision in 2009 to return a bust of former Prime Minister Winston Churchill.
He failed to note that the bust was on loan from former Prime Minister Tony Blair, who offered it to President George W. Bush in the days after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks as a symbol of trans-Atlantic solidarity. Huckabee also didn't mention that Obama replaced the Oval Office fixture with a bust of one of his American heroes, President Abraham Lincoln.
"The bust of Winston Churchill, a great insult to the British," Huckabee said. "But then if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Kenya with a Kenyan father and grandfather . he probably grew up hearing that the British were a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather."
Mike Huckabee would do well to learn more about Barack Obama before launching another presidential campaign. Governor Huckabee is either ill-informed about President Obama's background or he is willfully repeating racially motivated political lies about the president to foster the idea that Barack Obama is something "other" than a real American. As most people know, the president was born in Hawaii and grew up there.
