In desperate attempt to garner more support Mike Huckabee throws out raw meat to the Birthers.

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Not to correct the amazing Lawrence O'Donnell but in  fact the Huckabeee camp released a somewhat more wordy, but no less lame response:

"When the governor mentioned he wanted to know more about the president, he wasn’t talking about the president’s place of birth — the governor believes the president was born in Hawaii," Hogan Gidley said. "The governor would, however, like to know more about where President Obama’s liberal policies come from and what else the president plans to do to this country — as do most Americans."

That of course does nothing to explain Huckabee's misstatement.  No he did NOT say the President was born in Kenya, and no one is saying he did.  Of course the reason he gave for not making that particular accusation, which was also provided in this interview, was pretty inflammatory as well:

"The only reason I'm not as confident that there's something about the birth certificate . is because I know the Clintons and believe me, they have lots of investigators out on him, and I'm convinced if there was anything that they could have found on that, they would have found it, and I promise they would have used it," Huckabee said.

So apparently IF Obama had not run against Hillary Clinton during the 2008 primary, Huckabee would have openly accepted the idea that our President was not born in America.  But in Huckabee's eyes since Hillary is such an aggressive, take no prisoners bitch, Obama must be a citizen. Darn the luck!

But the fact still remains that Huckabee completely made up this "fact" about our President having been raised in Kenya, which is factually untrue and which somebody needs to confront him on.

However so long as he hides out at Fox News, Christian broadcasting stations, and Right Wing radio we will never hear an explanation from the man who presents himself as the more reasonable fundamentalist Christian alternative to Sarah Palin.

She lies about the President to attract support from ignorant racists, and HE lies about the President to attract support from ignorant racists.  The difference is barely discernible.