I don’t care how hilarious rapist / murderer-releasing, Christian Reconstructionist- supported, Man-On-Dog wannabe, former Arkansas governor, and Baptist minister-without-a-theology-degree Mike Huckabee thinks he is, this isn’t funny. We’ve already seen the yahoo vote unapologetic about the fact that they’d never vote for a black man — and plenty of them have an NRA card.
After all, look at what a Freeper posted yesterday in response to the marriage equality ruling in California. These folks are sick.During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.
“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”
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Obama will soon have guns aimed at every American and the entire world, assuming he wins the election. Big deal.
Oh goodie, some village is missing its idiot again. Someone grab its collar and let’s see where this one is from…
And if that’s too complicated, I’m saying STFU. Mike.
Mike doesn’t even make sense.
Oh my, the trollery starts with comment #1!
Obama will soon have guns aimed at every American and the entire world, assuming he wins the election. Big deal.
Because … Obama has 6 billion hands that he keeps hidden under his suit coat and can aim an individual gun at each man, woman and child on the planet?
No, seriously, I can’t figure out what the hell that’s even supposed to mean?
What is the logo on the shooter’s cap?
I believe Mike suggests that Obama’s presidency will be the “liberal police state dictatorship,” something the wingnuts have been dreading, yet dreaming, about every time they watch Red Dawn.
The Greek phrase Molōn labe! (Μολὼν λαβέ; approximate Classical Greek pronunciation [moˈloːn laˈbe], Modern Greek [moˈlon laˈve]), meaning “Come [and] take [them]!”, is a classical expression of defiance reported by Plutarch, roughly corresponding to the modern equivalent English phrase “over my dead body”
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Molon_labe
WTF?
Totally, completely, absolutely unacceptable. I cannot believe a public figure like Huckster would seriously think that was funny.
He’s just saying stuff that I’m sure a whole bunch of other Koolaid-drinkers are thinking and saying amongst themselves. But Goddammit! What the hell is wrong with those people?
That joke would have been in bad taste for most of the history of this country. But for those of us who are old enough to have been alive in 1963, 1968, 1975, 1981, and all of the other attempts and “successes” it is really, Really, REALLY NOT FUNNY.
At all.
It will never be funny.
I wake up every morning and half expect to find out about some tragedy. And then some asshole like that just scraps the scabs off again.
That lying sack of shit Huckster isn’t fit to carry Obama’s jock. Now that his run at POTUS is over, he needs to just STFU and quietly slither back under a rock somewhere…
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And Mike? STFU! You’re giving the name “Mike” a bad reputation. So take your Fascist, gun-loving ass into your bunker and weld the door shut…
Damn right! If Obama’s elected, he’s going to screw up all of these protection of personal liberties and that world peace we have going on! Shame on him!
That ought to just about take care of Huck as a VP possibility. That joke will be an abatross around his neck and McCain should be smart enough to avoid the clown. Too bad in a way. Huck would likely continue to put his foot deeply into his own throat on the national campaign trail.
With all their experience and consultants and such, they STILL can’t avoid showing their true colors.
Thank god. Imagine if they could just manage to hide the crazy a little bit longer.
Real gun guys don’t joke about gun safety. Huck’s comment reveals him to be a pitiful wannabee trying to sound like one of the cool kids without having a clue.
What an out-of-control maniac. Furthermore, I don’t really understand what his “joke” is. Are just supposed to accept that an assassination attempt is hilarious if you don’t like the person who’s targeted? Or is the joke supposed to be that Obama’s cowardly, because he drops to the floor when someone points a gun at him? Either way: FAIL.
Isn’t threatening someone under Secret Service protection a series offense in itself? I know they take threats (of any nature) against the President extremely seriously. Is it only a crime after the inauguration or do they afford candidates the same precautions?
The Greek phrase Molōn labe! (Μολὼν λαβέ; approximate Classical Greek pronunciation [moˈloːn laˈbe], Modern Greek [moˈlon laˈve]), meaning “Come [and] take [them]!”, is a classical expression of defiance reported by Plutarch, roughly corresponding to the modern equivalent English phrase “over my dead body”
In other words, it’s a guy who really REALLY enjoyed watching half-naked men running around in 300, but it’s willing to admit to himself why he enjoyed it so much.
Yes, and thoughtcrime is double-plus ungood.
D’oh! “Isn’t” willing to admit to himself …
Bad typing fingers! Bad!
Ooh, Mnemnosyne, your Greek really has improved!
Conservatives whining about thoughtcrime? Oh, teh LOLz.
Ooh, Mnemnosyne, your Greek really has improved!
Improved? I invented Greek, thankyouverymuch.
Threats against Obama may be separate from threats against the California judicial system, but every time someone starts talking about assassination, I think about the upper-left corner of this comic (the lower-right corner isn’t worksafe).
I think Mike is afraid that Obama is going to take away his guns.
It doesn’t surprise me that Huckleberry said this. We’re talking about the same man who threatened to shoot Iowa voters who didn’t vote for him.
http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/12/27/huckabee-this-is-what-happens%e2%80%a6you-vote-for-me-you-live-you-dont%e2%80%a6there-you-go/
A child like that shouldn’t play with them in the first place, Bitter Scribe.
I guess someone needs to start printing up some of those “You Kill Obama and WE WILL BURN SHIT DOWN” t-shirts“.
Ya know, the last thing Republicans should be wishing for is an assassination attempt on Obama. If anyone even takes a shot at him, it’s a guarantee that a Democrat will be in the White House for the next two terms. Plus every Klan and neo-nazi group would spend the next 20-30 years sitting in a federal pen.
Republicans is daaaaamn stupid.
Mike, whatever you’re on, up the dosage. Preferably to LD50 levels.
I’m with Hector B.
But I’m so steeped in the old days, when politicians actually got shot at, that I can’t even see Huckabee’s brain fart as a punch line. When there’s a weapon in hostile hands, unless your job involves stepping into the line of fire, you take cover. It’s like saying “a fire started and Obama grabbed a fire extinguisher” and expecting a laugh.
And everybody in that NRA audience who did laugh should retake their safety courses from the beginning. Bunch of losers.
Make that LD100, Damian.
Mike doesn’t live in a yellow house in East Bridgewater, MA, does he? If so, the state bomb squad just took out all his toys one at a time.
Ms Kate: Ah, but then I can’t take bets on how much more before he bites it.
Tell him that it would reeeeealy impress Jody Foster if he just took one more pill …
I’m with MikeEss. I know Huckabee’s got at least a few years on me, and assassination, attempted or otherwise, just isn’t funny.
That t-shirt on the asshole in the picture is just horrible. Assassination is a subversion of democracy. How these schmucks can claim to love Freedom ‘n’ Democracy is beyond me.
I didn’t think it was a threat aimed at Obama, but that Huckabee was calling him a coward. Whatever was going through his peabrain, it was a lame-ass comment.
What Hector B. said.
However, I read it as Woodrowfan did, and I’m guessing it was a racist dogwhistle as well: what are those guns for, if not to protect us from those people? Otherwise, why was it supposed to be funny?
(FWIW, I’m a gun owner, mostly by inheritance.)
I didn’t think it was a threat aimed at Obama, but that Huckabee was calling him a coward.
Since we’re talking about the same crowd that was puffing up their chests and talking about all of those cowardly students at Virginia Tech who ran away from THE GUY SHOOTING AT THEM, I think you’re right.
Though I’m pretty sure that even the most in-the-bag NRA member would think, “Uh, yeah, you bet I duck if someone points a gun at me. What am I, Superman?”
Can someone explain why wingers like Mr. RooftopVoter think that they are the only Americans who have weapons?
Here’s the laugh line:
And of course he’s describing something that never happened, but instead an imagined scene to make everyone in the audience laugh.
This is funny, because:
1) Obama has supported gun control laws in Illinois?
2) He’s black?
No points for guessing.
Hector B., could we change “real” to “mature”? ‘Cause my father-in-law is a mature gun nut who doesn’t joke about such things, but I’ve known a couple of people, one (”Big Mike”) an expert marksman, who made wisecracks about gun safety as a matter of course.
I’m feeding the troll here, I suppose. Still, as someone in graduate school specifically to study Latin and Greek, I have to jump in here.
I’d really be interested in hearing from Mike which of Plutarch’s historical biographies contained that particular quote. I’d also be interested in hearing what type of gun he was brandishing at the time.
(Hint: Mike, you’re full of shit.)
Seriously, fucked up. Huckabee, you’re going to hell–your sky fairy, will seriously send you to hell for the bullshit and hate speech you blather about on the tvee. Plus, there are 613 commandments, not 10, so wearing that polyblend fiber suit is just another sin against your very angry sky fairy, so you’re going to hell.
Assassination is how the Republicans deal with inspiring liberals–King, both Kennedys, etc. It would not surprise me if there were an attempt on Obama’s life in the course of this election or the presidency, lets just hope that the Secret Service is up to the job of protecting him and his family.
Of course Obama isn’t going to take away our guns. We need them to defend ourselves against assbags like Huck and Mike. It’s amazing how the Internet tough guys who think a gun is a big, lead-filled penis start whining when they’re facing armed targets.
Time to break out the “Fight Homophobia - Shoot Back” t-shirts, I see.
I guess if one wanted to look for a silver lining in this incident, it’s that he didn’t get any applause or anything other than really nervous laughter at that joke.
Yes, I’ve come so far in the last eight years that a right wing crowd not laughing at the prospect of assassinating of a black presidential candidate is shockingly good
Seconded, mythago.
And unlike our other armed bretheren, I see little reason to advertise what I might be packing. Or even if.
Is it any surprise that our photo model is arguably using an unfair weapon, a sniper rife and large scope? You wouldn’t want your target to have a fair chance at firing back, after all.
From there, we start talking about modern precision bombing . .
Nergh, Plutarch was full of shit anyway. Nobody really takes anything he says without a grain of salt. The man exaggerated EVERYTHING.
It must be noted that the crowd did not laugh at the joke about someone pointing a gun at Obama. There are plenty of Democrats in the NRA and the NRA has supported many Democrats running for public office. Huckabee is the wingnut and the story is about him, not the NRA.
rhiain - he’s just quoting the wikipedia article.
Let me quote a perhaps more relevant portion of that same article:
(”RKBA” == “Right to Keep and Bear Arms”)