Joe Klein of Time Magazine and Huckabee, on Obama

Joe Klein’s “Huckabucking” column (Time Magazine) illustrates well that both he and Mr. Huckabee excel at distorting small truths into big misrepresentations. He pretends that President Obama’s worst lack of patriotism is that he said: “I believe in America’s exceptionalism just as Brits believe in Bitish exceptionalism”. In fact he has presumed previously to apologize for America to the Arab world in mea culpa terms, and his wife openly confessed she had never felt proud of her country until it elected him. He has declared America not a Christian nation, and the “church” he attended long-term in Chicago is far more into socio/political rallies than worship – including the infamous “God damn America” sermon. One wonders on reading Klein’s piece, when he first signed on as a political flack for Obama.