{"id":1882,"date":"2008-03-23T13:44:22","date_gmt":"2008-03-23T18:44:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/03\/23\/the-voice-of-reason\/"},"modified":"2012-12-26T16:15:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-26T21:15:09","slug":"the-voice-of-reason","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.prosebeforehos.com\/quote-of-the-day\/03\/23\/the-voice-of-reason\/","title":{"rendered":"The Voice of&#8230;.. Reason????"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And one other thing I think we&#8217;ve gotta remember. As easy as it is for those of us who are white, to look back and say &#8220;That&#8217;s a terrible statement!&#8221;&#8230;I grew up in a very segregated south. And I think that you have to cut some slack &#8212; and I&#8217;m gonna be probably the only Conservative in America who&#8217;s gonna say something like this, but I&#8217;m just tellin&#8217; you &#8212; we&#8217;ve gotta cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told &#8220;you have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can&#8217;t sit out there with everyone else. There&#8217;s a separate waiting room in the doctor&#8217;s office. Here&#8217;s where you sit on the bus&#8230;&#8221; And you know what? Sometimes people do have a chip on their shoulder and resentment. And you have to just say, I probably would too. I probably would too. In fact, I may have had more of a chip on my shoulder had it been me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/dailykos.com\/storyonly\/2008\/3\/19\/72716\/0494\/229\/479797\">Mike Huckabee<\/a> on the Outcries on Obama&#8217;s Pastor<\/p>\n<p><strong>See Also:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/bookerrising.blogspot.com\/2008\/03\/huckabee-sticks-his-neck-out-for-obama.html\">Huckabee Sticks His Neck Out For Obama<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.article6blog.com\/2008\/03\/20\/obama-wright-huck-and-the-pulpit-whats-right-whats-wrong\/\">Obama, Wright, Huck, and The Pulpit: What\u2019s Right? What\u2019s Wrong?<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/themoderatevoice.com\/religion\/bigotry\/18507\/huckabee-understands-rev-wright\/\">Huckabee understands Rev. Wright?<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/susiemadrak.com\/2008\/03\/20\/14\/18\/huckabee-on-wright\/\">Huckabee on Wright<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.poliblogger.com\/?p=13419\">One Last (Maybe) Wright Post (Huckabee on Wright)<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/edcone.typepad.com\/wordup\/2008\/03\/huck-on-obama-a.html\">Huckabee on Obama and Wright<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.abcnews.com\/politicalpunch\/2008\/03\/huckabee-defend.html\">Huckabee Defends Obama \u2026 and the Rev. Wright<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/jamesfallows.theatlantic.com\/archives\/2008\/03\/god_bless_mike_huckabee.php\">God Bless Mike Huckabee<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>[tags]mike huckabee, voice of reason, pastor, wright, obama, barack obama, racism, blacks, african-americans[\/tags]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;And one other thing I think we&#8217;ve gotta remember. 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