Huckabee recognizes Obama

ryanteaguebeckwith — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:32:52 -0400

Speaking to N.C. GOP convention delegates Saturday, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee had kind words for the presumptive Democratic nominee, the first African American to be his party's standard bearer.

"I think we all, Democrat and Republican, as Americans we can all celebrate that we've gotten to the place where that could happen," said Huckabee, a former Arkansas governor. "Let's not take that from him or from the country."

Republicans, he added, "would be foolish between now and November trying to demonize (Obama). "But I think Republicans would be more foolish not to distinguish between (his) change and the change we need."

Huckabee went on to praise the Republican nominee, his former rival, Sen. John McCain of Arizona, Jim Morrill reports.

"He's a man of integrity, he's a man of honor, he's a man of conviction," he said.

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