I mean honestly… what the fuck?!!?
I’m sure he’ll be sorry if he offended anyone.
Behold, the man of God.
Do you mean Obama or Huckabee?
It’s an edgy joke, but I don’t see anything wrong with it. Huckabee’s all kinds of awesome just for his refreshing take on the whole Jeremiah Wright thing, and he’s got one of the better senses of humor of anyone in politics today.
Huckabee. Continuing to represent the modern state of American ministry.
I thought it was funny. I wish more people in politics in general had a sense of humor. Too often people are so scared to smile and crack a joke, somehow the offender looks less genuine or something. I was chastized my entire tenure in grad school because I was a jokster. I think huckabees sense of humor is refreshing.
Fwuh? I’m as ready to criticize Obama’s gun politics as anybody, but I just don’t get what Huckabee is doing here. “Hah! Hah! Hah! Obama is such a silly man, he would duck if someone pointed a gun at him!” It’s… not really funny at all. :dubious:
Yeah, murder is pretty funny when you think about it. Hey, did you guys hear the one about the World Trade Center?
Man, this forum is humor impaired.
He was making fun of the man for wanting gun control due to the fact that he’s getting shot at all the time.
Context people, context.
The problem with it is that nutballs watch things like that and take it as a message from God — or their departed mother, or their dishrag or whatever — to kill someone. Sad but true.
Let’s see - a bunch of rural white folk gun fetishists get together and joke about a black presidential candidate getting shot at. Comedy gold!
Next week at the NAMBLA convention, keynote speaker Rod Pindick has them rolling on the floor with his riff on 'the neighbor boy with the bleeding sphincter." See it on YouTube!
Due respect, but that’s a pretty ignorant (and stupid, really) caricature of the NRA and most of its members.
I walked past the convention center today where the NRA fest is being held. I’m not too torn up about having the NRA around (NB: I own a rifle, but I <b>am not</b> part of the NRA, and don’t see the two necessarily connected), and Huckabee’s comments don’t help. It reminds me of Reagan’s mike check when he joked that we would be bombing (Soviet) Russia in a few minutes.
Vlad/Igor
Is joking about shooting at Presidential candidates considered funny now? Because last I checked, it was considered grounds for a visit from the FBI.
Oh, I’m sorry. Forgive me. I will correct my assumptions
Make that “a bunch of urban minority firearm,…er, don’t really care about them-ists”. (I had no idea!)
I’m still trying to figure out this from earlier in the speech:
What the hell is that supposed to mean?
Oh, its quite true. Born and raised in Texas, and a childhood familiarity with firearms has instilled an incorruptible ethical sense in me. Of course, a couple of my cousins had to have the lesson emphasized with a refresher course in a convenient penitentiary…
I just ran across this story on Yahoo. His delivery sucks. Would have been much funnier if he’d linked it to Hillary and Kosovo.
I honestly don’t get the joke. Is he joking about presidential candidate assassination attempts and how Obama is an especially targeted person? Is he commenting how the black guy is used to getting shot at cause he’s from the 'hood or something?