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Why Won't Mike Huckabee Condemn Racism of Barack the Magic Negro?

Mike Huckabee's version of moral leadership reached a new low at the end of 2008, with his connection to, and reaction to, the distribution of a racist CD with a song entitled Barack the Magic Negro.

The CD was distributed by Chip Saltsman, who is running for the position of Chair of the Republican National Committee. But, Saltsman isn't just a candidate to lead the RNC. In 2007 and 2008, Saltsman was also the campaign manager for Mike Huckabee's presidential campaign.

Given Mike Huckabee's connection to Saltsman, reporters asked for his reaction to the Barack the Magic Negro CD. Yet, Huckabee refused to condemn Saltsman or the racist CD he sent to Republican leaders. Huckabee said that he would make no comment.

No comment?!? Huckabee is working as a pundit for Fox News, for goodness sakes! It's his job to comment on stuff like this.

Furthermore, if he wants to become President of the United States in 2012, Mike Huckabee has a responsibility to tell voters whether he stands with racist tactics within his own party, by his own political allies, or whether he stands against them.

It's sad, and telling, that Mike Huckabee doesn't see things that way. Explaining his refusal to comment, Huckabee said of the Barack the Magic Negro song, "that's something that doesn't have anything to do with people who aren't on the Executive Committee."

Coming from Arkansas as he does, Mike Huckabee surely knows better than that. When the leaders of Huckabee's political party sing racist songs about the President of the United States, it has to do with a lot more than just the Executive Committee of the RNC.