My opinion piece on the Rev. Jeremiah Wright is in Illinois Times this week, headlined "The prophet Jeremiah" ... I didn't write the head, but I think it's classy. It's about something that kind of got lost in all the uproar about Wright's sermons and their effect on Sen. Barack Obama's campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination, that I thought was important: Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee, who ran in the Republican presidential primaries this year, was one of the few people calling on us all "cut [him] some slack."
That surprised me, coming from a prominent Republican as it did in the heat of a presidential year. Then I remembered Huckabee is a preacher, too.
Well, read it ...
(And as you read it, remember it is an opinion piece: It reflects my opinion and not the goals and objectives in the course, and you are not required to agree with it. In fact, one of my goals and objectives for you is to develop a skeptical attitude about everything I say.)
If you want to see Huckabee's interview on the Morning Joe show, it's on YouTube. It's a very interesting example of an journalist trying to get a politician on the record trying to say something confrontational when the politician doesn't want to go there.
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