Just hours ago (yay Internets!) Bible-thumping quitter Mike Huckabee addressed the National Rifle Association convention in Louisville, Kentucky, where he offered up this bon mot when a crash offstage interrupted his speech:

That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he's getting ready to speak. Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.

Ha! Get it? People want to kill Barack Obama because of his liberal gun policies. And some people want to kill him because he's a powerful black man. Isn't that hilarious?

Dear Republican Presidential Candidates,
I'm not talking to all of you, of course. Really, this letter is directed toward the ones that matter — Rudy Giuiliani, John McCain, Mitt Romney, and Fred Thompson. Incidentally, you four, the ones that matter, are also the most popular candidates and the exact same ones choosing to forgo Tavis Smiley's black-issues debate. Why is that?

Well, there's the obvious reason. Black people don't vote for you, particularly in the primaries, so why should you worry about our issues when you could be kissing ass at the NRA convention? This doesn't bother me as much as the fact that you don't even care to either disguise your obvious disinterest in a large percentage of the country you hope to govern or attempt to change the minds of a group of people that have very little faith in you. Look, everyone has a part of their job they don't particularly like, but that doesn't mean they don't have to do it.

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