Huckabee denounces "European ideas"
Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, a favorite of the religious right, is speaking right now at the Republican National Convention. He just denounced Barack Obama for going to Europe earlier this summer and bringing back supposedly dangerous "European ideas" like health care for all. Huckabee, like most of his rightwing ilk, calls that "picking your pocket." Big applause from the delegates.
Huck''s an entertaining speaker by and large, if you ignore the deeper meaning of his remarks and who he's really speaking to. He wasn't so great ethically as governor of Arkansas, but that never holds back rightwing Republicans.