Huckabee defends Barack Obama on Rev. Wright controversy

http://trainwreckpolitics.com - Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee defends Barack Obama's handling of the Reverend Wright controversy, but also adds from his perspective as a former pastor that conservatives shouldn't be so quick to judge Jeremiah Wright either:"Sermons, after all, are rarely written word for word by pastors like Rev. Wright, who are delivering them extemporaneously, and caught up in the emotion of the moment. There are things that sometimes get said, that if you put them on paper and looked at them in print, you'd say 'Well, I didn't mean to say it quite like that."..."As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say 'That's a terrible statement!' ... I grew up in a very segregated South. And I think that you have to cut some slack — and I'm gonna be probably the only conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you — we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie, you have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant..."

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Uploaded: March 19, 2008 at 10:04 pm
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