I wasn't privy to a lot of this until my cousin broke it down for me. I hadn't been keeping up with the election stuff...but apparently Huckabee made a joke about Obama being shot also. It made me wonder what kind of danger this brother (Barack) is really in right now. Anyway, here's the article.
Huckabee’s Obama-NRA Joke Isn’t a Crowd Pleaser
Amy Chozick reports on the presidential race from Sioux Falls, S.D.
Former presidential candidate Mike Huckabee drew cringes Friday when he made a joke at the National Rifle Association convention about Barack Obama getting shot at.
“We believe the government should get its hands off of us as much as possible, we don’t need that much of it, we’d like less of it and we darn sure would like for it to be less expensive but the reality is and I’m worried,” Huckabee said when he was interrupted by a loud thump from backstage.
The quick-witted Southerner looked behind him and said to the Louisville, Ky., crowd: “That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair and someone pointed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
The audience fell silent and the charismatic former Arkansas governor seemed to immediately realize he had made a mistake with the offensive jab at the Democratic front-runner. (
Watch video of the speech on YouTube.) An apology hasn’t been released.
Obama campaigned throughout South Dakota today where he talked about rural issues including gun rights.
“What I believe is that there is a Second Amendment right. I think it is an individual right,” Obama said. “I do believe that there is nothing inconsistent with also saying that we can institute some common sense gun laws so that we don’t have kids being shot on the streets of cities like Chicago.”