Nothing to joke about

It does help a little bit to understand the context of Huckabee's comment, he was addressing NRA members and he was not the only speaker to comment on Obama.

However, Huckabee's comment clearly crossed over the line of decency. Joking about any political candidate's fears of being assassinated, especially a black candidate's fears, is unacceptable ! What next ? Will Huckabee jokingly pull a gun on Obama and say "Gotcha!" ?????

Outrageous.

Huckabee should be questioned by the secret service for making such comments. To place a target on the back of Obama even in jest is simply shocking beyond comprehension.

Yes, if someone aims a gun at you I assume you will be scared and either run or duck (to the floor). Can someone explain to me why this was supposed to be funny?

Huckabee Wow are you that afraid of Obama?
Sounds like Bush, kill what you can not control!

Huckabee's "joke" was way over the line. He should apologize immediately.

Anyone who thinks Huckabee's "joke" was funny would probably also think it was funny to wear a white hood and burn a cross in front of Senator Obama's home.

This is just another reason to vote Democrat in November.

How this man can look at himself in the mirror and call himself a human being, much less a Christian is beyond all comprehension.

No good. No good at all. America is beyond hope.

Ironically, some folks that I know do not want to vote for Obama because they fear that if he's elected... he would almost definitely be assasinated. Knowing this, Barrack and Michele are two of the most courageous political figures in our life time.
"Greater love hath no man than to lay down his life for his friends."

I doubt that "W" or his mentor, Rove would ever exercise such courage... administrative skills or sheer fortitude and convictions.

God bless Obama... and keep him safe.

Dick Panacea, Virginia City

By the time Hannity and Limbaugh put the Jeremiah Wright spin on Huckabee's comments this issue will somehow come to represent a shortcoming in Obama's character. It is amazing that no matter how egregious Huckabee's comments were, the Lunatic Fringe Media is already poised to spin this into a problem with Obama - as if he's more prone to assignation; not a good trait in a Presidential candidate.

We must admit that lifetime closet racists like Huckabee are not a reflection of the problem that Blacks in this country face but they represent a true picture of a problem that White America refuses to face. The NRA couldn't have picked a better spokesperson to prove that guns don't kill but people do. Huckabee proves that whatever is in a man's heart will eventually flow out of his mouth. I feel sorry for Huckabee's family and friends who have to stand next to him knowing he is capable of saying something so idiotic.

Huckabee's comment was definitely horrible and unfortunate. That anyone would say this about any person is deplorable, and I'm sure it wasn't his intention, he tried to tell a joke without knowing what his punchline would be in advance. That said, everyone is quick to jump on this like it was a racist issue. Any tough issue Obama has had to face he has been able to duck as a race issue. Jeremiah Wright? A lot of it was dismissed as being acceptable in a black church, Obama himself said that it was common in black churches. As an African American (albeit Republican), I can tell you that it is not how my black minister preaches.

Huckabee should be ashamed, but to compare this to wearing a white hood and burning a cross in Obama's lawn is WAY beyond the line. Even making that analogy is 20 times more racist in my eyes.

Considering that Huckabee is an ordained minister, his comments are all the more shocking. It is truly very sad. Sad indeed! The fact that even the NRA members present could only profer murmurs is however encouraging. Huckabee should really be ashamed of himself. Truly ashamed.

Eric in Montreal

Huckabee is a Republican before anything else. Hanging out with Karl Rove is far worse than any casual association that Obama had with anyone, including Rev Wright. Rove belongs in jail for his criminal actions. Rove refuses to testify under oath about his association with the prosecution of Governor Don Siegelman, which many say was politically motivated. ccChttp://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/24664516

Huckabee is a few bricks shy of a full load, so what do you expect? He has a history of this exact same type of thing, but for some reason he usually gets a pass. Not today, however. He laid to rest any future in the GOP and proved that he's a bumbling idiot. Let's hope he is dumped overboard and fast. He is a huge embarrassment.

I LIKE HUCKABEE, BUT THIS WAS NOT A FUNNY SUBJECT AT ALL!

What's really worrying is that the first thing that comes into his mind in relation to Obama is a gun. Does Huckabee know something we don't? Is there a buzz among the ex-candidates that Obama is being set up as a target? It reminds me of the incident several months ago when an arena was filling up for an Obama speech and the cops, halfway through screening the entrants, were told to stop the metal-detector tests -- in Dallas, of all places.

Mike Huckabee comment was not a joke. I strongly believed that he carry that thought around with him from his childhood and through his teenage years and adulthood--this is his true state of min, and the way he think about Black people in general and Black Men and Women in politics in particular. It just came out in the open because he no longer can retain it, moreover, he was talking for other White-Men who think just like him. He is not sick, and nothing is typical about it--his comments is exactly what he mean. Whenever one American is threaten another American life for political power is not a joke.

The US Secret Service should and must conduct an investigation to find out what
Huckabee really mean about assasinating Senator Obama. Quite obviously, here
are lot of white folks who do not and may not want to see a Blackmen in the hite House as president of the USA. Of course, black people faught all the wars: starting with the Native-American War [India] the War of independent, Civil-War,
World I and II, Korea War, Vietnam, both Iraqi Wars and so no...but when it come
to political power then black folks are not allowed to have a seat at the table. All
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Governor Huckabee - Joking around about shooting a presidential candidate, from the other party, the first black candidate in history, in front of the NRA is criminal, not to mention sinful. There is truth in sarcasm and you've just crossed the line. Humor or no humor, stupid as it may be, your asinine comment was offensive and moronic. It deserves far more than just a simple apology.

We don't need a Veep who makes stupid remarks that in anyway contributes or inflames the problems we already face in this country.

All the racists I know are conservative republicians. The Democrats supported civil rights in the 1960's and all of the hard, overt, "Jim Crow" racists fled into the open arms of the republican party's "soft" symbolic racism reframed in the rhetoric of racial/social conservatism as part of Nixon's "Souther strategy" to win the Whitehouse and have stayed ever since. You don't think "W" knew the message he was sending by speaking at Bob Jones U. during the 2k election? Little wonder the NRA started shortly after the formal end of the Klu Klux Klan.

Disobedience becomes a lifestyle and their wickedness intensifies but in the end they will wind up in misery and filth.

Well, if Obama is assinated now or later, EVERYONE will know it's the Neo-CON 's doing.

If they murder Obama, half the country will riot till our government becomes seen as utterly EVIL & totally obsolete.