Candidate Mike Huckabee Connects Native Americans With Jihadists During Speech; DNC Responds

[Algernon Moncrieff]

“And lest we get on our high horse and think this is unique to some other place, remember that during the Crusades and the Inquisition, people committed terrible deeds in the name of Christ. In our home country, slavery and Jim Crow all too often was justified in the name of Christ,” Obama said.

On Tuesday, Huckabee told a raucous crowd of supporters that he wonders who Obama cheers for when watching 1950s western cinema.

“When I hear our current president say he wants Christians to get off their high horse so we can make nice with radical jihadists, I wonder if he can watch a western from the ‘50s and be able to figure out who the good guys and the bad guys really are,” Huckabee said.

In a statement sent to ICTMN, Eric Walker, spokesperson for the Democratic National Committee, called Huckabee’s comment a “cheap joke” and said Native Americans deserve not to be compared to jihadists.

Read more at http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2015/05/06/video-candidate-mike-huckabee-connects-native-americans-jihadists-during-speech-dnc

[leftofcool]

1. I think he did this too.

Now, I know that it is possible that he was comparing guys with white hats to guys with black hats but his policies and history lead me to believe different.

[salib]

2. I think he absolutely was comparing native Americans to jihadists

He is talk about the enemies (in his mind) of white Christian males.

[FSogol]

3. Snake-oil salesmen usually avoid bringing up the wild west.