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If a good mind is a terrible thing to waste, it is a terrible thing to see a good man fall into the political gutter in the cause of personal political ambition.

Yesterday I wrote how Mike Huckabee was courting the extremist birthers by smearing the president about Kenya and raising the ridiculous issue of the Mau Maus. Now Huckabee, who says he misspoke about Kenya, and then proceeded to try to tie the president to Indonesia, says that while most Americans grew up with the Boy Scouts, the president grew up in the madrassas.

Let’s be clear. Let’s be honest. What Huckabee is doing is appealing to the bigot vote, which he apparently considers important! in the GOP presidential primaries. It is called innuendo. The president of the United States, in this appeal to bigotry, is not quite American and not quite Christian. He is, according to this guilt by innuendo, more Kenyan or Indonesian than American. He is, according to this guilt by innuendo, somehow tied to madrassas, which implies, in this appeal to ignorance, that the president is somehow tied to foreigners and Muslims.

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