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June 22, 2015 1:00 pm - NewsBehavingBadly.com

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Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says the Confederate flag is not a problem because of “one racist lunatic.”

Huckabee said on NBC’s Meet the Press Sunday morning that he does not think presidential candidates should talk about it.

“I still think it’s not an issue for a person running for president,” Huckabee said. “Everyone’s being baited with this question as if somehow that has anything to do whatsoever with running for president.”

The flag has come to attention recently, after a white gunman shot and killed nine black churchgoers in Charleston, South Carolina, last week. Pictures posted onlineshow the alleged shooter, Dylann Roof, posing with a gun and a Confederate flag. The flag is widely considered a symbol of racism.

“I don’t think [the American people] want us to weigh in on every little issue in all 50 states that might be an important issue to the people of that state but not on the desk of the president,” Huckabee said.

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D.B. Hirsch
D.B. Hirsch is a political activist, news junkie, and retired ad copy writer and spin doctor. He lives in Brooklyn, New York.

16 responses to Huckabee: Confederate Flag Not A Problem

  1. Budda June 22nd, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    It is not a ‘little’ issue Mike

    • whatthe46 June 22nd, 2015 at 1:34 pm

      no $hit! what’s he afraid of? why are they so chicken $hit to discuss it. and yes it is a big issue and an issue that anyone running for president should be able to discuss. period.

      • F_cons June 22nd, 2015 at 3:15 pm

        Please don’t say period – that’s too young to dugger or nugent

  2. tracey marie June 22nd, 2015 at 1:35 pm

    The flag is a racist symbol, the people who say it is their heritage and a way to honor their relatives who died fighting for the right to own slaves, in the same breath tell black people to get over their past enslavement, beatings, rape, hanging and being sold like cattle.

    • whatthe46 June 22nd, 2015 at 1:40 pm

      the stupid is strong in them tracey. really strong.

  3. fahvel June 22nd, 2015 at 1:38 pm

    I learned a word togay – smarmy – does that work for this piece of detritus?

  4. William June 22nd, 2015 at 2:13 pm

    “Everyone’s being baited with this question as if somehow that has anything to do whatsoever with running for president.”

  5. Suzanne McFly June 22nd, 2015 at 2:59 pm

    I guess huckster missed the memo about them taking down the sign of hate he apparently supports.

    • F_cons June 22nd, 2015 at 3:13 pm

      But if you cover the baby with it, it’s ok or expected that you dugger them

  6. Bunya June 22nd, 2015 at 3:28 pm

    The confederate flag is not a problem. Nosirree. Just because it’s a symbol of racism, hatred, and oppression, it’s only a flag.
    .
    Now, the media going after kiddydiddler Josh Duggar, even after Jesus forgave him, is one HUGE problem facing America today!

  7. AnthonyLook June 22nd, 2015 at 6:08 pm

    Huckabee is not a problem; in the scope of presidential primary GOP clown car candidates, this guy is just there for a flavor of the month; he will self deport himself out of the running as soon as financial reality starts costing him. This opportunist is in the race for his own glory and mainly in it to make money not lose it.

  8. The Original Just Me June 22nd, 2015 at 8:39 pm

    He is spewing a lot of words out of his mouth but is he saying anything ?

    • AAASuperPatriot June 22nd, 2015 at 8:59 pm

      If you can’t hear the racist dog whistle, you can’t understand Mike Huckabee.

  9. robert June 22nd, 2015 at 11:19 pm

    hmmm what fox news current or former tool is going to help mike with this

    decisions…. decisions

  10. granpa.usthai June 23rd, 2015 at 8:51 am

    …no problem at all unless you happen to be a BLACK Christian.

    -or anybody else in America who isn’t pure Aryan White.

  11. jybarz June 23rd, 2015 at 10:38 am

    And you’re running for president?