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Kludge
03-01-2011, 08:28 PM
"WASHINGTON (AP) -- Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee suggested in a radio interview that President Barack Obama's childhood in Kenya shaped his worldview - even though Obama did not visit Kenya until he was in his 20s.

The potential Republican presidential candidate told New York radio station WOR on Monday that Obama's youth led him to resent the West, which he said explains why, in Huckabee's view, Obama's foreign policy differs so greatly from that of his predecessors.

"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 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 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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Dr.3D
03-01-2011, 08:35 PM
Here is another thread discussing Huck saying that.
http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?281957-Huckabee-screws-up-and-says-Obama-grew-up-in-Kenya

Aratus
03-02-2011, 12:43 PM
ex-gov mike huckabee evidently wants to run for public office in A.D 2016... insted of 2012 B.C!

Zap!
03-02-2011, 02:30 PM
He didn't grow up there, he was just born there. :)