LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- Former Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee has some supportive words for Democratic presidential hopeful Barack Obama.
A Baptist minister, Huckabee said Wednesday that Obamas former pastor is hurting Obama's bid for the White House. The Rev. Jeremiah Wright's anti-American comments and racially charged remarks demonstrate that Wright does not want Obama to prove that the country's race relations have progressed, said Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas.
"Jeremiah Wright needs for Obama to lose so he can justify his anger, his hostile bitterness against the United States of America," Huckabee said.
Wright has claimed the federal government created AIDS to kill "people of color" and that the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks were spurred by U.S. "terrorism" against minorities.
Obama's mother was white; his father was black.
