Posted by Helen on: 02.09.2008 /
NPR recently set out in search of people who could understand Huckabee’s Biblical allusions in his speeches. (h/t Hemant for the NPR link)
If you heard Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee’s victory speech on Super Tuesday, you may have noticed him speaking in what is almost a separate dialect. Some listeners have even asked us what he was talking about. So NPR headed off to the National Mall in search of people who understood Huckabee’s biblical allusions.
It proved almost as hard as getting a camel through the eye of a needle.
Traci, who’s an atheist, did better than the people NPR spoke with (all thanks to her recent churchification).
Comment by: benjamin ady
1Not to be harsh, but Huckabee is from another time. It’s *really* fascinating that so many people *don’t* understand his biblical allusions. It marks a huge change in this country in the last years. I bet 50 years ago, a much larger swath of the population would have followed no problem.
I am *seriously* hoping he makes a big comeback and gets the republican nomination. This could lead, in my opinion, to an easy landslide win for Obama. And the thought of getting Obama, who is *so* articulate, and Huckabee, who really *isn’t* all that articulate, in front of cameras and a national audience in a debate is like a beautiful beautiful dream. I mean we’re talking about a magna cum laude juris doctor from harvard and a dropout from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (you know, the world famous Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary). =) (I mean, hell, I’d drop outta there too, ya know. I mean if I had enough time before they kicked me out =))
I *do* hope that’s not rude of me to say so.