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Conservatives talk in code:

During a speech before the National Rifle Association convention Friday afternoon in Louisville, Kentucky, former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee — who has endorsed presumptive GOP nominee John McCain — joked that an unexpected offstage noise was Democrat Barack Obama looking to avoid a gunman.

“That was Barack Obama, he just tripped off a chair, he’s getting ready to speak,” said the former Arkansas governor, to audience laughter. “Somebody aimed a gun at him and he dove for the floor.”

Guess he had to add that last sentence, in case anyone failed to get the signal.

I kinda liked Huckabee during the primaries. He’s very conservative, but he didn’t seem mean-spirited. So I’m guessing he just wants to be surrounded by Secret Service agents. After a remark like this, he might get his wish.

At first I was amused by this post from This Modern World:

If John McCain was hoping to use his speech at the Republican convention in September to try to woo working class voters away from Obama, he might have hit a snag. It seems that McCain’s speech (which traditionally happens on the final night of the convention) will be happening at the same time of the NFL season opener between the Superbowl champs NY Giants and the Washington Redskins.

On reflection, I think this is part of a massive conspiracy by the NFL to get McCain elected. I mean, if people actually heard his convention speech, what chance would he have? The NFL is helping to hush up the Republican agenda, and this year there’s no greater service they could render for the Republican Party.

Josh Marshall:

Every time the president does something like this, the Democratic nominee needs to point out again that President Bush bungled the country into a disastrous war that has damaged America, failed to find Osama bin Laden, funded it all [by] driving us further into debt to China and various Gulf sheikdoms. And McCain supports it all 100%.

Always stay on the offensive.

Question: Could George W. Bush have done more damage to the country if harming the country had been his actual intent?

Follow-up question: How do we know it wasn’t?