Hat Tip to Mike Huckabee for Speaking Out Against Obama Muslim Conspiracy Theories

NJDC — February 24, 2011 – 5:04 pm | Election 2012 | Republicans | Stop the Smears Comments (0) Add a comment

NJDC tips its hat to former Arkansas Governor and rumored 2012 presidential candidate Mike Huckabee (R-AR) for his recent repudiation of the Muslim conspiracy theories that have been leveled at President Barack Obama for years. Huckabee went further than just setting the record straight on Obama’s religion; he even called him “a good role model” and praised him as an “exemplary husband” and an “extraordinary father.” According to CNN:

During a speech at the National Press Club Thursday, Huckabee said it’s time for some conservatives to quit questioning the president’s Christian faith and added he thinks Obama is a role model for the ‘primacy of the American family.’

‘He has personally articulated, not once but numerous times, of his Christian faith. I take him at his word. I have no reason not to. For us to continue to dwell on that is missing the point. I have no disagreement with President Obama as a human being. In fact, I will go so far to say one of the things I respect very much is the role model that he has served as a husband and father,’ the conservative Republican said during the midday speech in Washington, DC.

‘I think he has been an exemplary husband to his wife and an extraordinary father to his daughters,’ he continued. ‘Frankly, America needs a good role model like that and how can I on one hand argue for the primacy of the American family and not recognize that in his own personal life style he has given us an excellent example of a person who has his priorities straight in marking out time for his wife and raising his daughters in a disciplinary environment in which he recognizes that he the parent is responsible for the atmosphere in which they are raised. And I commend him and salute him for that.’

Huckabee has also repudiated the outlandish attacks against First Lady Michelle Obama’s anti-childhood obesity campaign by publically praising her. USA Today reported:

[C]ount among [Obama’s] defenders former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee, now leading the field of prospective Republican 2012 contenders in a new Gallup Poll.

He says some Republicans have criticized the campaign, focused on childhood obesity, ‘because she’s the one presenting it.’

‘She’s been criticized. . . out of a reflex rather than out of a thoughtful expression,’ Huckabee said at a session with reporters hosted by The Christian Science Monitor. ‘It’s exactly what Republicans say they believe, which is you put an emphasis on personal responsibility. . . . I thought that’s what we were about.

‘I think we should be thanking her and praising her.’

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