May 21, 2007

Huckabee panders to base

Or that is my interpretation. From Melissa Rogers:
"The Florida Baptist Witness, a Southern Baptist publication, reports that Mike Huckabee has withdrawn as a speaker at the Celebration of the New Baptist Covenant. Huckabee cited what he called an “unprecedented personal attack” by former President Jimmy Carter on President George W. Bush and his administration’s foreign policy. --snip--

Hucakbee said: “While I continue to have great respect for President Carter as a fellow Christian believer and Baptist, I’m deeply disappointed by the unusually harsh comments made in my state this past weekend regarding President Bush, and feel that it represents an unprecedented personal attack on a sitting president by a former president which is unbecoming the office as well as unbecoming to one whose conference is supposed to be about civility and bringing people together.”"
It always amazes me how Bush is held to a different standard. He can start a horrible war, undermine our constitutional system, back torture, but Carter says what everyone knows to be the truth and Carter is the bad guy.

Sigh.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

I was highly disappointed that Carter backtracked and sputtered on this. Clearly the Bush administration has no love for him, so he had ne reason to back down on his comments if they were honestly what he felt. Why does he need Bush's acceptance? No guts.
And happy belated birthday Streak!