Huckabee praises Obama speech

Either proving it was a great speech, or proving politicians know how to see where the wind is blowing, Mike Huckabee has praised Barack Obama's "race speech" and has defended him against critics of Reverend Wright.

And one other thing I think we've gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say "That's a terrible statement!"...I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack -- and I'm gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who's gonna say something like this, but I'm just tellin' you -- we've gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told "you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus..."

This goes along with some discussions I have had offline and with some comments made by BowHunter yesterday. For all the "sound and fury" surrounding the Reverend Wright, I think Obama will be able to recover and turn this into a positive... at least until the Reverend gives a NEW sermon with the same words in it. And if he is like the other pastors I have known, he is sure to do so eventually. He can not be silent.