Huckabee’s Major Misfire
Good thing Mike Huckabee isn't in the running for the presidency anymore -- he'd be hard-pressed to spin his way out of the truly horrific crack he made Friday at an NRA event in Louisville, Ky. That's hardly important, considering the troubling implications of his failed joke, which called up the image of Democratic candidate Barack Obama being targeted by a gun-wielding assailant.Good thing Mike Huckabee isn’t in the running for the presidency anymore — he’d be hard-pressed to spin his way out of the truly horrific crack he made Friday at an NRA event in Louisville, Ky. That’s hardly important, considering the troubling implications of his failed joke, which called up the image of Democratic candidate Barack Obama being targeted by a gun-wielding assailant.
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