Huckabee to skip Jimmy Carter conference after Bush remark

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Republican presidential candidate and Southern Baptist minister Mike Huckabee said Tuesday he will skip a Baptist conference organized by Jimmy Carter after the former president called the Bush administration the "worst in history."

The former Arkansas governor said he would not participate in the Baptist Covenant Program Celebration in Atlanta in January, scheduled to feature Carter and former President Clinton.

"Withdrawing from the gathering is one of the few ways that I can show my disappointment in the comments that were made this weekend," Huckabee said in a statement.

Huckabee criticized Carter for a statement he made to the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette for a Saturday story in which he said: "I think as far as the adverse impact on the nation around the world, this administration has been the worst in history."

That comment, Huckabee said, "violated an unspoken code that you don't make personal attacks on others who currently hold the job. You just don't."

Huckabee also criticized the roster of speakers for the conference, which will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, as too political.

[Matariki]

1. Talk about irrelevant

he being one of the candidates who proudly and publicly disbelieves evolution...

[truebrit71]

13. LOL! That's what I was just thinking too...

...I'm just waiting for the first republiKon candidate to state that the earth is in fact, flat...

[acmavm]

2. That frigging 'unspoken code' is harmful and a danger to this country

and the people in it. This shows Huckabee to be a coward, a liar by default, and and stupid bastard to boot.

[Matariki]

4. Someone should ask him if Pol Pot was his predecessor - would he be 'politely' quiet?

[wicket]

12. "This shows Huckabee to be a coward, a liar by default, and and stupid bastard to boot."

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Amen!!!

[waiting for hope]

3. Hummm........

BAWAWAWWAAAWWAAAAAAA!

I really don't think Jimmy's going to mind. :evilgrin:

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Cry me a river, Huck. Do you think anybody will miss you not being there? And what about

the 'unspoken code' in your bashing of Clinton and snide comment about Edwards the other week?

[AlCzervik]

6. Huckawho now?

[BurtWorm]

7. How principled.

:eyes:

[ComerPerro]

8. someone tell the Repigs and the media that support of Bush is the radical, extremist opinion, not

opposition of Bush.

Its the people who still arrogantly insist that Bush is a good president who are way out of touch with mainstream America, and who should be ridiculed into apologizing.

[yellowcanine]

9. Huck was looking for an excuse not to go.......

"Huckabee also criticized the roster of speakers for the conference, which will be held at the Georgia World Congress Center in Atlanta, as too political."

One word for this: "weasel"

wea·sel

3 : a sneaky, untrustworthy, or insincere person

[Justitia]

10. Yeah, right. His son, the gun-toting dog killer, probably gets released from prison that weekend.

Huckster is a sanctimonious boob who cares more about kissing Bush's ass than the fact our country is circling the drain.

Fuck him and his in-bred family.

[wicket]

14. His son is completely unhinged

I fear it will only be a matter of time before he kills someone :scared: Psychopaths often start with torturing animals.

[YOY]

11. Oh pleeeeease let the Pubs run this nutjob...

I get to see either a landslide Dem victory or absolute proof that my country has gone apeshit!

[gatorboy]

15. Do Republicans really expect us to believe that "respect the office" crap.

When they held Clinton (While in office) down to the coals for so long? :eyes:

[RaleighNCDUer]

16. That unspoken code is unspoken because it doesn't exist.

Generally a SITTING president will not speak ill of his predecessor, but that's just good politics because generally he will have inherited most of his predecessor's congress. As for ex-presidents, few survive more than a few years after leaving office - I'm not sure that Carter isn't the longest lived ex-president this century. They don't have much time for jumping back into the brawl.

Think about it - if an ex-president is not qualified to criticise a sitting president, who is?

[wicket]

17. kick

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