{"id":2340,"date":"2008-01-18T10:33:19","date_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/nice-mike\/"},"modified":"2008-01-18T10:33:24","modified_gmt":"2008-01-18T16:33:24","slug":"nice-mike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/nice-mike\/","title":{"rendered":"Nice Mike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2008\/01\/18\/us\/politics\/18campaign.html?_r=1&#038;oref=slogin\">Confederate Flag Takes Center Stage Once Again<\/a> &#8211; New York Times<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou don\u2019t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,\u201d Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"highlight\">\u201cIn fact,\u201d he said, \u201cif somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we\u2019d tell them what to do with the pole; that\u2019s what we\u2019d do.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>At a news conference on Thursday night, he said, \u201cIt is not an issue the president of the United States needs to weigh in on.\u201d <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"mine\">[mjh: But just right for a presidential candidate?]<\/span> Mr. Huckabee, who did not say whether he considered it offensive to fly the Confederate battle flag, made his remarks as he toured the state with David Beasley, a former South Carolina governor, who had angered some conservatives by removing the flag from the Capitol dome in Columbia and displaying it elsewhere on the Capitol grounds.<\/p>\n<p>And a radio advertisement paid for by an independent group used the flag issue to attack Mr. McCain, of Arizona, and praise Mr. Huckabee. \u201cJohn McCain assaults our values,\u201d it said. <span style=\"font-weight: bold;\" class=\"highlight\">\u201cMike Huckabee understands the value of heritage.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Confederate Flag Takes Center Stage Once Again &#8211; New York Times \u201cYou don\u2019t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,\u201d Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press. \u201cIn fact,\u201d he said, \u201cif somebody came to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/nada\/nice-mike\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nice Mike<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nada"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2340"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2340\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}