Huckabee’s Moment

It’s striking how refreshing Mike Huckabee’s reaction to the Jeremiah Wright frenzy is. We’re so used – and too many conservatives have demonstrated this again this week – to the grinding tedium of knee-jerk My Party Rules, Your Party Sucks* political discourse that it’s almost astonishing when a leading figure (from either party) can come out and say something like what Huckabee said about 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.