Huckabee: Obama Grew Up "In Kenya"
March 01, 2011 1:26 pm ET by Eric Hananoki
During a radio appearance yesterday, Mike Huckabee repeatedly falsely claimed that President Obama grew up in Kenya. After questioning Obama's purported secrecy about the birth certificate, radio host Steve Malzberg asked Huckabee if "we deserve to know more about this man." Huckabee responded, "I would love to know more. What I know is troubling enough."
Speaking on WOR's The Steve Malzberg Show, Huckabee -- a Fox News host and potential presidential candidate -- said that "one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American ... his 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 are a bunch of imperialists who persecuted his grandfather."
From the February 28 program:
MALZBERG: Don't you think it's fair also to ask him, I know your stance on this. How come we don't have a health record, we don't have a college record, we don't have a birth cer - why Mr. Obama did you spend millions of dollars in courts all over this country to defend against having to present a birth certificate. It's one thing to say, I've -- you've seen it, goodbye. But why go to court and send lawyers to defend against having to show it? Don't you think we deserve to know more about this man?
HUCKABEE: I would love to know more. 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, very different than the average American. When he gave the bust back to the Brits --
MALZBERG: Of Winston Churchill.
HUCKABEE: The bust of Winston Churchill, a great insult to the British. But then if you think about it, his 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.
Huckabee was later asked if he would bring up the issue of Obama's birth certificate during a presidential debate. Huckabee replied: "The only reason I'm not as confident that there's something about the birth certificate, Steve, is because I know the Clintons [inaudible] and believe me, they have lots of investigators out on him, and I'm convinced if there was anything that they could have found on that, they would have found it, and I promise they would have used it."
PolitiFact has noted that there "is not one shred of evidence to disprove PolitiFact's conclusion that the candidate's name is Barack Hussein Obama, or to support allegations that the birth certificate he released isn't authentic."
Contrary to Huckabee's claims, Obama did not grow up in Kenya. Obama spends significant portions of his book Dreams From My Father describing his first visit to Kenya in the late 1980s. On page 304, Obama writes of his arrival at Kenyatta International Airport (emphasis added):
Kenyatta International Airport was almost empty. Officials sipped at their morning tea as they checked over passports; in the baggage area, a creaky conveyor belt slowly disgorged luggage. Auma was nowhere in sight, so I took a seat on my carry-on bag and lit a cigarette. After a few minutes, a security guard with a wooden club started to walk toward me. I looked around for an ashtray, thinking I must be in a no-smoking area, but instead of scolding me, the guard smiled and asked if I had another cigarette to spare.
"This is your first trip to Kenya, yes?" he asked as I gave him a light.
"That's right."
"I see." He squatted down beside me. "You are from America. You know my brother's son, perhaps. Samson Otieno. He is studying engineering in Texas."
I told him that I'd never been to Texas and so hadn't had the opportunity to meet his nephew. This seemed to disappoint him, and he took several puffs from his cigarette in quick succession.
The BBC noted in a 2008 article that "Barack Obama has never lived in Kenya and he has visited the country just three times."
Additionally, Obama did not grow up "with a Kenyan father and grandfather." Indeed, Dreams From My Father is largely about Obama's struggles with the absence of his father. The AP noted in 2006 that Obama "was mostly raised in Hawaii and did not know his Kenyan father well."
From the February 28 edition of WOR's The Steve Malzberg Show:
MALZBERG: Don't you think it's fair also to ask him, I know your stance on this. How come we don't have a health record, we don't have a college record, we don't have a birth cer - why Mr. Obama did you spend millions of dollars in courts all over this country to defend against having to present a birth certificate. It's one thing to say, I've -- you've seen it, goodbye. But why go to court and send lawyers to defend against having to show it? Don't you think we deserve to know more about this man?
HUCKABEE: I would love to know more. 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, very different than the average American. When he gave the bust back to the Brits --
MALZBERG: Of Winston Churchill.
HUCKABEE: The bust of Winston Churchill, a great insult to the British. But then if you think about it, his 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.
MALZBERG: He despises the west, he despises the Brits, and I think he could take it all out on Israel and that's why he despises Israel. He's not too thrilled with our history either. But let me just try to get an answer from you. Would you say to him, or at least ask him in a debate, why did you go to court and spend millions of dollars on lawyers to prevent from having to show your birth certificate. If you have one and it's there, why not show it?
HUCKABEE: The only reason I'm not as confident that there's something about the birth certificate, Steve, is because I know the Clintons [inaudible] and believe me, they have lots of investigators out on him, and I'm convinced if there was anything that they could have found on that, they would have found it, and I promise they would have used it.
MALZBERG: Let me just give you one as we end here. The Clintons probably - there was probably a lot on the Clintons that the Obamas could have said, 'yeah, you do that, we'll come back with this.' Don't think for a minute. You're from Arkansas; you know that better than me. Now, having said that, when are you going to decide to run or not?
HUCKABEE: Probably sometime late spring, early summer.
Governor Huckabee, i thought this was your Master Plan?
But i guess it wasn't Extreme enough was it Mike, for your Right-Base?
Mike Huckabee needs "To Pay For" his Sins for his Not Too Subliminal attack on Obama's Race.
Speak truth to power.
Mr. News
Worst haiku ever.
Actually, your post made me blush red hot, remembering my only attempt at poetry. And worse, I sent it to him!! Oh, I could die just thinking of it. It was terrible. I was attempting to reciprocate a lovely haiku, he wrote for me.
See, dredging up old feelings of inadequacy or embarrassment is just one of the services I offer.
You're welcome.
Even the claims of biblical adherence at all is moot; they dont think it would stop them from going to heaven just for lying about everything. Praise Jesus and you're saved forever apparently.
Besides, they don't care about free speech. These rightwingers just want to lie and hurt and manipulate, and have no qualms about screwing with peoples faith in order to do. And no one who acts the way they do at tea partys, in the government, as governors of florida or wisconsin, etc etc..could be considerd a true christian anyway.
Interesting moniker. ladies must love to get close.
Do you have your very own waterbowl?
Revelation 21:8
"But cowards, unbelievers, the corrupt, murderers, the immoral, those who practice witchcraft, idol worshipers, and all liars--their fate is in the fiery lake of burning sulfur. This is the second death."
Sorry, oldsquid, but you just said that the Bible is going to Hell.
BHO is a joke
A. Because Noah always sat on the deck.
Its dumb too, considering America themselves rebelled from the British EMPIRE.
Basically, people of colour will never vote for a party which thinks it's bad to resent Britain for sending black tribal kenyans into concentration camps.
The Kenyans rebelled because the Brits took all their land... and Obama... darn it, I can't even fake this one.
- Karl Rove
Baker Island.
Guam.
Howland Island.
Jarvis Island.
Johnston Atoll.
Kingman Reef.
Midway Islands.
Navassa Island.
Northern Mariana Islands.
Palmyra Atoll.
Puerto Rico.
Virgin Islands.
Wake Island.
And we have military bases in 50 nations.
(for simplicity I will only list the last 100 years):
Cuba (1902-1959, 1962, Another Brilliant USA Job),
Philippines (1900- ),
Haiti (1915-34, 1994),
Dominican Republic (1916-24, 1965),
Puerto Rico (1900, US Empire),
Honduras (1912, 1919),
Guatemala (1954),
Mexico (1916-17),
Panama (1903-79 US Protectorate),
Nicaragua (1979, Contras),
Chile (1973, BTW - Great Job CIA),
Vietnam (1964-73),
Laos (1970),
Cambodia (1970),
Lebanon (1980’s),
Granada (1981),
Guam (1944, US Empire),
Northern Mariana Islands (1944)
American Samoa (1944, US Empire),
Okinawa (1945),
Korea (1951-53),
Somalia (1991),
Kuwait(1992),
Iran (1953 CIA, The "I" is actually for "Intelligence"),
Iraq (1991, 2003),
Afghanistan (2002-?),
Libya (198?),
Sudan (1998-Tomahawk cruise missile attack),
USSR (1918-19),
Germany (1945),
Japan (1945),
Italy (1945).
Look, I'm tired and these are just what I can list off the top of my head. I think it's easier to list the countries we haven't invaded, attacked, fatally destabilized or destroyed.
Now do you understand why we need a defense (war) budget that is greater than all the other nations combined? Why several countries are striving to get atomic weapons as quickly as possible and lastly, why the whole world loves us so?
The ONLY plausible threat to my freedom, for over 100 years now, is my own government. One of the biggest failures of American education is World history.
Easy. Ever hear of the Dunning-Kruger effect?
Or perhaps being in Vietnam when you never were is OK to misspeak about it.
But then again, when you think about it, making these stupid comments got these buffoons elected.
Soooo... you would be running for which elected office?
Beck has previously assailed Obama as having been under the influence of a father he never actually knew. But Huckabee took it even further. Beck never claimed that Obama grew up in Kenya. Heck, the Birthers don't even claim that.
he's not a real American nor a legitimate president.
Looks as if he too has let his ego and ambitions turn him into just another GOP power hungry hack.
Why would he do that to such a revered British figure? He must be a marxist.
They need mixed metaphors and contradictory statements in order to feel that their leaders have given them "depth"
What's the deal with the sudden British sensitivity? I thought it didn't matter to conservatives how we felt about anyone else in the world. I thought all Europeans were a bunch of socialist pansies according to the conservative movement. Weren't we supposed to be suspect of the British because they have "socialized medicine"? This whole interview segment is bizarre.
Huckabee is knowingly lying. It's that simple.
RFK Jr. Column on HP
In the US the citizenry just laps up their toxic waste. That must tell you something. There is something about America.. there are so many that just love to hate, it's deeply ingrained in the culture.
to have any chance in 2012 they have to somehow convince voters there is something "Wrong" with Mr. Obama.
we will see a lot of this kind of attacks leading up to November 2012
It's worse than that. They don't care that their agenda is to slash existing jobs.
The Republican Brotherhood wants the economy to tank so they have a better chance of re-taking the presidency in 2012. And then they can complete the theft they started before the black usurper got in their way.
Again with this racist Obama hates the British nonsense! Disgusting. They will say anything to claim "Obama is not like the rest of us"
Even if your blatantly false assertions were true, how the hell do you know what Kenyans think and feel anyway? Who are you to claim expertise on Kenyan political attitudes, Mr. Huckabee?
Not only that but:
How the hell can you claim you would know how President Obama feels about the British, even if your bogus claim about his growing up there were true? Also, what difference does it make if someone gains a different perspective about the British from living in or visiting another country, Mr. Huckabee?
Again, that is provided your easily debunked lies and accounts of President Obama's upbringing were even true in the first place, Mr. Huckabee.
No real surprise that Huck is troubled by what he thinks he knows -- it's nothing but lies.
This is a guy trying to be a serious presidential candidate, supposedly a good Christian, and he's either a flat-out liar, or completely ignorant about things that should be well known to the average citizen with basic computer research skills.
I would probably only be able to say something like-
" And you want to be my new latex salesman."
Nowadays, I suppose that saying might go something like, "Avoid books and embrace insane, extremist talking points and one day, you just might grow up to be president!"
This is why Steve Malzberg is far and away my favorite right-wing talk show host. It doesn't matter how inane and how obvious the lie is, he wants to believe it. Millions for
Way to go, Huck
He really doesn't look like he's been running many marathons lately. I'm just saying...
I think he's inadvertedly given us the only arguement that will shut down the Birthers in their tracks- "if the evil Clintons couldn't nail him, he must be pretty airtight".
"The powerful, evil Clintons couldn't dig up the dirt on him, so it just shows how adept Obama is at deceiving people."
Now my nose is bleeding. I think I just gave myself a brain hemorrhage.
^_^
The only reasons I can think of that would explain the tenacity of the birthers is the idea that they don't understand/know that HI was a part of the U.S. in 1961 the year President Obama was born, or that they object to having a person of color in the WH so strongly that they willingly and knowingly deny all evidence that is presented which proves that he was born in HI.
You are making two mistakes: 1) you are looking for reasons, 2) you are misspelling it - it's Birchers, not Birthers. This also explains why you are making mistake 1. . . reason is not involved.
Christ. How are people like this allowed to continue talking without being roundly mocked and ridiculed by society at large?! And how are they allowed to keep talking despite spreading libel and slander? Seriously.
Does that tell you anything about the state of society?? Scary isn't it?
Of course, the doubters will say that he just lied in his books and it's this huge conspiracy to cover up his true roots and religion. You just can't reason with these people, it's so damn sad.
Who makes up this crap?
I believe it comes largely from the Heritage Foundation
"Obama raised in Kenya? Some people say..."
/puke
One of the great mysteries of the twentieth century was the way Britain got away with pillaging nearly every country on the planet without suffering any retribution. I've spent a long, bitter time brooding over this experimental proof that there's no such thing as karma. Among the reasons I've found for this failure to prosecute are the reluctance of the raped to report their sufferings, the stupidity and credulity of American scholars vis-a-vis their Oxbridge colleagues, and the charmed life that seems to reward those individuals and nations lucky enough to lack any vestige of conscience.
But there are simpler reasons, bravely revealed in Caroline Elkins's account of the slaughter of some 300,000 ethnic Kikuyu of Kenya, the torture of hundreds of thousands more, and the internment of the entire Kikuyu population, in mid-20th-century Kenya. As Elkins reveals, the Brits simply destroyed every record of the massacres they could find, and -- unlike the French, Germans or other conscience-harried colonials -- kept the settlers' oath of Omerta, never revealing what they did to the "Kukes" to anyone except other vets whose anecdotes were as bloody and full of blame as theirs. The difference between the British Empire and other fascist empires is not that these guys were nicer. Nobody who reads this book could continue to believe that, if they were fool enough to believe it beforehand. The difference is that the Brits were good at it, and had no conscience to trouble them. Thanks to that careful incineration of records and highly adaptive national sociopathic disorder, "...there would be no soul-searching or public accounting [in Britain] for the crimes perpetrated against the hundreds of thousands of men and women in Kenya."
Well, Obama did grow up in an Irish-American household.
You made my week with that comment!
I've listened to his show on Fox a number of times. Scary, but then who on Fox doesn't scare you? OK, maybe I'll give Shep Smith a pass, but he's the lone wolf there, that's for sure.
Few in the Corporate Controlled Media dare to touch one of the more well-fed elephants in the room - the constant cacophony of dog-whistle slogans spewed by Huckabee and those of his ilk (like Beck, Hannity, Limbaugh, O'Reilly).
Here are few examples from my copy of The Dog-whistle Dictionary:
Community Organizing - Rilin' up our NI66ERS
He's not one of us - He's at least half NI66ER
I'd like to know more - He's a lyin' NI66ER
"pat boone sing like little richard"
Coffee spew!
1. He's President Obama, not Mr. Obama. Stop trying to cover your eyes and pretend hes not the president.
2. You mean this birth certificate? Do I have to slap you in the face with it for you to believe its real?
3. President Obama has never lived in Kenya. You are a liar.
4. The returning of the bust wasn't an insult. It was the returning of another country's property. I don't see a problem here. Unlike Bush Jr, President Obama has this thing against keeping stuff that isn't his.
5. Way to play to your bible-thumping audience. I applaud you for making the President of the United States out to be some Israel hating foreigner. I forgot, what is the prevailing attitude towards Jewish people over there at your network?
Stick with your variety show and leave the news to real journalists.
Yeah, right!
That's why he used the word at least three times.
HUCKABEE: "And one thing that I do know is his having grown up in Kenya, his view of the Brits, for example, very different than the average American."
BTW: have you ever lived in a foreign country? I will expand your world out look. That is something Flea baggers like you should look into (assuming you have a mind)
only if you played golf.
A month? Sounds more like a vist. Where was it you stayed? Glasgow? Edinburgh?
Kudos to MagCynic for stepping up to the plate to defend the indefensible.
I'm sure glad that you aren't a Huckabee fan, no telling what you would have said if you were.
Regarding the post, Eric Hananoki - someone who's repeatedly misled about the "Birther" issue - wants you to believe PolitiFact, a group that has also misled about this and other issues. In fact, the very quote Eric Hananoki offers contains two lies: O didn't release a "birth certificate" but a picture of one. A picture of something can differ from the thing itself, and you can't eat a picture of a sandwich. Plus, that picture says at the top it's not a "birth certificate". Sure, lies might make you feel good, but they tend to bite you later on.
And, regarding those dreaded "Birthers", I've been conducting a smarts/integrity test using the Birther issue as the jumping off point for months.
Over five months and thousands of views later, only one (1) O fan has passed the test.
Just one "AntiBirther" got a single-question, tricky-but-fairly-easy smarts/integrity test right after thousands of them have seen it. That's not good.
So the Indonesians who were colonized by the Dutch, would feel that way about the British and Winston Churchill? - Great job of imitating the complete lack of historical knowledge, Lonewacko Blog.
Also, it's good to hear the whole "it doesn't say Birth Certificate" argument brought up for a few good laughs. Especially since anyone who has done five minutes of actual research would know that the state of Hawaii issues a "Certificate of Live Birth".
Throwing in some test results from some dubious test where the correct answers are based on false assumptions and fabricated evidence is a nice touch too.
Thanks for the great satire Lonewacko Blog! You sound as desperate and ill-informed as an actual birther.
And, like the others, you have no clue about my test.
It's worth noting that the image you showed also says, "Certificate of Live Birth;" something you suggest invalidates the Obama document.
If you're looking for someone with no clue, take a peek in the nearest mirror.
Then I clicked on this link.
Check out some of the comments there. People will work very hard to try to wrestle logic around until things seem to line up with their beliefs.
To paraphrase what I've written about them before:
You can take them to the forest and show them the fallen tree. You can show them multiple videos of the tree falling. You can show them hundreds of photos of the tree falling. You can bring in a hundred credible eyewitnesses with no financial or political interest in whether or not the tree fell to recount their experience. They aren't convinced.
Then they will point to one photo with a round black smudge on it. The photographer will quickly note it's his thumb, but the new conspiracy theorist will tell you with complete certainty that the black smudge is really the shadow of an Obama administration secret ops agent, and the photographer is an islamokenyansocialist. Now nothing will change their belief that the tree never really fell.
You be sharp as a bowling ball birther.
I know bintx and others have been linking to that for a long time here, I've never seen any indication that any of the right wingers it was suggested to read it, or took the test.
Yoou would think they'd jump at the chance to finally get a high test score. ;0)
They don't care. They WANT to believe a lie, and the new conspiracy theorist crowd will use any scrap of slightest inconsistency and cling to it as gospel while ignoring mountains of far more credible evidence.
Three times?
And mentioning the British is what... another wrong country.
I've asked you before; just why would someone go to such ridiculous measures to execute such a mind blowingly complex fraud in the first place? To gain American citizenship? Well, unless anyone can provide proof that someone other than Ann Dunham is Obama's mother, there would be no need for that. It would be his even if he had been born on foreign soil.
Of course, you didn't want to address that before, now did you? Nooooo! You want us to believe it's possible regardless of how ridiculous it would be. It's possible that a massive fraud has been staged by a countless number of bureaucrats in Hawaii. It's possible that the newspapers were in on it. It's possible because, well, apparently you want to believe it's possible.
I'll say it again; you're a nitwit.
I doubt it would be a black mark on anybody's permanent record to have failed wacko's "challenge".
Again I'll say, he's a nitwit.
Because it actually is a jpeg image of the president's birth certificate. If you're dim-witted enough to think that answer is wrong, then please add me to your list.
If you have a list of people that don't know that the president grew up in Kenya, you can add me to that list too.
If you have any other lists you're making made up of people who aren't as stupid as you are, feel free to add me to those. Feel free to add almost everybody on the planet, while you're at it.
Obama doesn't have to send every American who requests one a physical copy of the COLB! A few responsible and credible people have seen and touched the actual piece of paper.
The COLB is all I have, all I've ever had, and all I've ever needed in my entire life. It is my birth certificate.
And you, of course, have again completely failed to answer the question I've leveled at you; just why would anyone go to such ridiculous lengths in the first place? What would they have to gain?
Translation: Hey, everybody at Freerepublic fell for my stupid trick, why don't you guys ! **pout**
Here's a question to add to your test:
Why did George W. Bush and Dick Cheney, and the 9 members of the Supreme Court, 435 members of the US House, 98 members of the US Senate, (excluding Biden and Obama, of course) all of whom swore an oath to protect and defend the constitution, allow Obama to appear on the ballot, be elected and sworn in?
a) Obama had compromising pictures of all of them
b) Obama sent hookers to C Street where they infected everyone with a disease for which only Obama had the antidote,
c) the entire US government had been replaced by pod people between 2006 and 2008
d) Obama is a US citizen born in Hawaii in 1961
a) Duh, search the intertubes and you will find them posted on their Facebook page. (Hey, look at me!)
b) Normally you only need to send them hookers to get them in your pocket. Infecting them with disease is what the CIA does.
c) No, the government was replaced with pod people in 1981 when Rayguns was elected to office.
d) Not if you don't like Dems, blacks, or people in general.
Put simply, I have a paving stone outside my back door that has a sharper intellect than you have displayed on this site.
Get real! Pandering to the right-wing nuts is a requirement for ALL Republicans, so NO, Huckabee knew exactly what he was saying.
The question that Republican don't seem to understand is what happens in the general election where there are more common sense, intelligent people than there are right-wing loonies.
I'll bet he just didn't do the basic fact checking and carelessly pandered to what this right wing radio audience wanted to hear by jumping on the anti-Obama bandwagon. That's unfortunate, since in the same interview he criticized his fellow conservatives for trashing Michelle's Let's Move campaign on principle.
Hey, why did you drop your first steamer so far down in the thread, slacker? You're almost an hour late.
Anyway, I have to go yawn. Aloha!
OMG are we back to that?
Huckabee, Shame on you!!!
A lie is a lie. Whether its partial, clipped or reworded.
His kind use only the parts that further their radical agenda.I could give may examples.
1.) You're assuming that any Christian knows anything at all about the bible or religion.
2.) You're assuming that Huckabee would say anything that is not on his Murdoch approved script.
Huckabee is supposed to be a Bible-believing Christian . . . a literalist. This whole piece is one big OLD sin!
What a tool.
What he succeeded in doing is interesting: He assured himself a meal ticket on FauxNoise as well as numerous pundit and paid speaking gigs with the TP crowd, but doesn't have to run for president to keep it.
Here's what Paul says in 2 Corinthians 11:13-15---Good News Bible---Today's English Version about people like Huckabee and others on the right who work hard to portray themselves as followers of Christ, but are really working to advance themselves
(13) Those men are not true apostles---they are false apostles, who lie about their work and disguise themselves to look like real apostles of Christ.
(14) Well, no wonder! Even Satan can disguise himself to look like an angel of light!
(15) So it is no great thing if his servants disguise themselves to look like servants of righteousness. In the end they will get exactly what their actions deserve.
Those that follow Huckabee and the others on the right, believe every word they say, and believe that they are Christians need to be very careful about doing this because these folks can cause them to lose their souls. If they read their Bible, they'll easily be able to see that if these people lie, create conspiracies, and/or display hypocritical behavior, they are nothing like Jesus Christ who didn't do any of these things. Christians don't follow men. They follow Christ.
If Huckabee were a Christian, he would never construct and push lies like this one about President Obama, or anyone. He knows deep inside himself that he doesn't have a viable platform on which to run for president in 2012, so he resorts to bearing false witness to promote his own agenda.
I see no evidence of this.
Thank you for your post. The Wingnuts think they own Christianity, much to our faith's detriment. The false Christians may be a bunch of left over medieval bigots, but that does not define Christianity or a Christian. The truth is quite opposite of them.
It is time they had a reality check on something.
Please count 3 more thumbs up for the post
He also helped free WAYNE DUMOND to pander to anti-Clinton wackjobs. DuMond went on to rape and murder two Missouri women.
MAURICE CLEMMONS
WAYNE DUMOND
bring these names up anytime someone tries to say something favorable about Huckabee.
This should not be surprising to anyone.
OK... putting aside all this abusrd and irrelevent nonsense about Obama being a Kenyan, why is it that in the minds of these right wingers, teh US is the only country that allowed to celebrate it's revolution and eventual freedom? Why were we so different from any other British (or any other country's) colony? Becuase we were originally Brittish ourselves? The Kenyans threw off British Oppression?! Oh my effing gawd! THAT'S EXACTLY WHAT WE DID!!!
The only difference was that we were actually BRITISH SUBJECTS while THEY were concored! SO actually, they're the ones who heroically fought for their freedom! And truth be told? We were a bunch of traitors!
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What the hell is wrong with these people?!
Message: Governor Huckabee is a busy man with more important current issues on his mind--he just mis-spoke a bit. All foxed now.
Er....um.... fixed now that is.
AP Article:
Kenya is mostly Christian whereas Indonesia is mostly Islamic.
Which is it Huck, Christians or Muslims?
Usually it means they are homeless and are sneaking into the garage at night to get out of the weather.
Thank gosh for the Repubs working on destroying the American social safety net.
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0211/50305.html
"On the so-called birther issue, Huckabee described doubts over the president’s citizenship as an “obsession” and a “waste of time.”"
very christian of you preacherman.
Where does some dopey Seppo get off accusing Kenya of being anti-British? Why aren't you in The Commonwealth like the rest of former members of The British Empire? Who do you think you are? Burma? You don't even play cricket. You play that funny version of the schoolgirls' game rounders!
What a pestilential gobshite!
I think what he meant to say was, "What I don't know is troubling enough."
What's amazing to me is that not only did he not have clue 1, but he doubled down and then quadrupled down (is that possible?) by invoking the British empire and Obama's father teaching him.
www.teleco4.com
Perhaps, he needs to review the 10 commandments. The one that says, "Thou Shalt Not Bear False Witness." He knows he's lying. If he does this with Obama's origins, what would he lie about if he became President?
He is just another hot air bag. And, by the way, the bag is gaining weight.
So let's just put the correct word in its context:
"then if you think about it, his perspective as growing up in Indonesia 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."
doesn't make sense:
-what influence would Indonesia have on Obama's view of the Mau Mau Revolution?
-what's also not talked about is that he states he "grew up" with a Kenyan father... he only met his father one time...
Someone needs to call him out on this during an interview... his entire context makes sense with him saying KENYA, not indonesia.