Huckabee gaffe

[Joel S. Berson]

 From the AP, via Yahoo:

"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
remove a bust of former Prime Minister
<http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_huckabee_obama#>Winston Churchill from
the Oval Office.

He failed to note that Obama replaced the Oval Office fixture with a
bust of one of his American heroes, President Abraham Lincoln, and
moved the Churchill bust to the White House residence.

"The <http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_huckabee_obama#>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."
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His staff has characterized this as he mis-spoke, saying "Kenya"
instead of "Indonesia".  They didn't add that therefore he had also
mis-spoken in referring to the "Brits" rather than the "Dutch" and
Obama having removed a bust of ... whom?  Queen Wilhemina?  Anne
Frank?  (No -- she was Jewish.)

Joel

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