Mike Huckabee: Birther Issue Is 'Nonsense' (VIDEO)

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee said Monday that birthers are wasting "time and energy" with their insistence that President Obama was not actually born in the United State.

Speaking on ABC News' "Good Morning America," Huckabee said that he had massive disagreements with Barack Obama's policies, but that he felt no personal enmity toward the president. Huckabee also said that he believed birther conspiracies were "nonsense," partially because Obama had faced tough competition on his road to the White House in 2008.

"If there was any shred of truth to it, Hillary Clinton and her wonderful investigative opposition research machine would have found it and would have used it," Huckabee said. "For Republicans to even be bringing it up, I think it's a waste of energy and time."

Huckabee also admitted that Obama would be very difficult to beat in 2012, saying that he didn't think it would be a good idea to be the first GOP candidate out of the starting gates, but that he was "seriously considering making a run for it."

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Comments

[JISantiago]

12:22 AM on 02/24/2011

The only people who say that Obama's foreign policy is a failure are his conservative opponents in America.

The rest of the world is breathing a sigh of relief with the new US approach to foreign relations.

No declaration of axis of evils. No use of military might to bring about regime change.

No tolerance to abuse of human rights. No reluctance to condemn such abuses.

Full support for people's democracy; full support in their fight against oppression and tyranny.

The result: No more anti-US demonstrations on foreign soil. No more burning of the US flag, with some exceptions perhaps in Pakistan where such acts were carried out by the Taliban and other Islamic fundamentalists.

So Gov Huckabee, your claim that Obama's foreign policy was a failure is without substance and sounds so hollow indeed.

[Rock Biologist]

06:07 PM on 02/23/2011

But Noah packing dinosaurs into the Ark a few thousand years ago, THAT makes perfect sense.

[mcmutter]

02:57 PM on 02/23/2011

Huck plays the FOX rubes link pink ping pong balls ...

[bilmardre]

09:19 AM on 02/23/2011

You only get kudos for stating the obvious in the GOP.

[Political Piggy]

08:57 AM on 02/23/2011

Well, now you have done it Mr. Huckabee. Please turn in your Republican Tea Party and Real American membership cards right now.

[Gaylord P Farqua]

07:39 AM on 02/23/2011

Smart move by the Reverend. His comments show that he recognizes that the birthers are a small but vocal minority of the GOP/Tea Party funded by the slogan machine. Huckabee is a running an "aw shucks, you want me" non-campaign to avoid the disadvantage of being the first GOP/Tea Party guy out of the chute. He will let Romney fall on his sword early on and when the believers have heard enough from him Mike will swoop in during the final hours and save the day. Certainly Mike is tuned into Palin's game and either knows or suspects her bulls*** campaign is all about  self promotion through  paid speaking tours and book sales and is not really running.

[Shami Khan]

05:54 AM on 02/23/2011

Good to know that not all Republicans are on crazy train.

[mech126]

03:54 AM on 02/23/2011

And how long did it take him to come out against the birthers......... and we are now supposed to believe him now, ya right, and what world does he think we live in, because it's not the real world...

[OmaDrei]

03:29 AM on 02/23/2011

President Obama was born in Hawaii. Hawaii is a state of the US. On top of all that, his mother was an American. So, even if he had been born in Kenya, he would still be an American.

[Sly Cooper]

11:43 PM on 02/22/2011

In my view,I just do not care. People may not change their minds at all not matter what one does. Evidence has been presented and this issue is still being discussed. So quite frankly, it really is a waste of time and energy. It is the same as Obama'a religion. He said he is a Christian. even though it should not matter what his religion is. I know people have legititmate issues with Obama, but to me these are not.

[JISantiago]

12:31 AM on 02/24/2011

When it suits them, Obama is a Christian palling around with Rev Wright and sitting in a Chicago church on Sundays and listening to the Reverend's condemnation of America!

That didn't work. Now they are playing the Muslim card and the non-citizen card. These racist jerks will not stop at anything to prevent the President's re-election.

[Philament]

11:40 PM on 02/22/2011

Sure, more and more prominent GOPers are saying stuff like this now. They had to wait for K. Rove to say it was ok to call a spade a spade. Now they're coming out of the woodwork and are trying to tamp down on the useless conspiracy theories that have taken over their party. Good luck with that.

[Tony Fossee]

11:31 PM on 02/22/2011

I dont expect to have any conservative to share all my liberal views, just as i woudn't agree on just about anything Huckabee represents politically, but maybe we have found a "reasonable" human being that just happens to be a republican. We have all lost a sense of "Human first- fighter for the cause second". Maybe he gets it. "It" being that just because two people are on the 180 degree opposite side the political human experience, it does not equate to hating each other. I might disagree ideaologically with Gov Huckabee, but I would have a beer with Mike.

[craigbear]

02:45 PM on 02/24/2011

Me too. As much as I may disagree with him on many issues, unlike some of his party brethren he's at least sane and rational.

[Carolyn LeBeauf]

10:58 PM on 02/22/2011

It took THE HUSTER 2 years to state the obvious, so he is not so brave. He has had birthers on his show spewing the lies about THE PRESIDENT bitrth rights, and he never corrected them. He now wants to run for president so he speaks up, but to late HUCK the money will be backing Pawlenty.

[GoldenGirl2500]

10:26 PM on 02/22/2011

Another prominent GOP'er says the 'Birther' movement is nonsense. Good for him. Good going, Huck!!!!!!

[Gidster]

09:43 PM on 02/22/2011

Huck, it only took you two years to say it publicly!

[lrobb]

09:50 PM on 02/22/2011

Haven't heard his radio program or TV show? He's been saying it since the 2008 campaign.

[Gidster]

07:07 AM on 02/23/2011

I have not seen his show, nor heard his radio program,

He has been fairly quiet on dismissing the subject on the Sunday shows and in his appearances on Fox, etc.

But if he has been saying it on his show, then I stand corrected.