Perhaps it would be funny from his pulpit? Oh wait! The NRA is pretty much his pulpit. heh

And another thing? No sense of humor about it, either!

I can't wait for them to secede again.

If the statement had been about President Doofus, Huckabee might have been strung up from the highest rafter and/or the NRA might have been deemed a terrorist organization by the government.

I am TOTALLY looking at this election in a new light!!

Kentucky didn't secede.

This joke is particularly unfunny considering our not so recent history of racist fucks assassinating prominent African Americans.

As much as I despise defending anyone even remotely affiliated with the NRA, I had to at least clarify that no one seems to have laughed at this ridiculous comment.

Kentucky WAS a slave state, but no, they didn't secede. They stuck with the non-slave states. They've always been a really odd mix of "we want to be north" and "we want to be south." Before the Civil War they were a slave state.

They're not far enough up to be northern, but they're also not far enough down to be southern.

I lived in Lexington (SE Kentucky) for a period, and I can tell you they were pretty intolerant. Non-acceptance of Obama--who is HALF WHITE after all--does not surprise me one iota.

But if you watch/listen to the video, you hear more than a few murmurs.

Huckbee says "...he's getting ready to speak" and he gets bunch of laughs and some claps. The crowd is quiet while he then says "Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor." And then you definitely hear laughter after that line. Maybe not as much laugher as after the first line, but it's more than "a few murmurs."

And it reminded me of RFK's assasination, off-stage after a speech.

MD DE and DC also had slaves but did not join the Confederacy. In part because of the federal troops in DC.

Slaves in DC built the US Capitol in fact.

Today, their descendants living in DC can't even vote for the folks making the laws inside the Capitol.

But as folks across the USA actually care very little about real deprivations of rights, including the deprivation of voting rights for DC residents, who are largely African Americans, no one talks about that. Instead we all talk about who made what ill mannered "joke" or who said what without properly crediting someone else and we spend a lot of time analyzing all these words for taints of racism.

But actual voting rights, for a few hundred thousand actual black people in DC?

Eh. No one outside DC actually gives a shit.

@6: kentucky is as full of ignorant rubes just as sure as any state in the "deep south". i lived across the ohio from it for 28 years.

i wish these crackers would put down the meth for half a second & realize that obama is the least 'black' black candidate they're ever going to see. it is not possible to create a black man more white. he grew up in fucking hawaii, not in some crumbling louisville or cincinnati ghetto shithole.

considering the persistence of the "muslim" meme, i'm not holding my breath.

Interestingly, from where I sit in Louisville, I've found that everything directly across the river (at least from Cincy on down to IN) is more full of rubes (and more racist) than the part I live in.