If anything, McCain screwed up royally by not hammering Obama for it. Also, why is it “misplaced” to focus on a man Obama called his “spiritual adviser” for 23 years? Wright’s views obviously helped shape Obama’s opinions of the world, he did after all sit through over two decades’ worth of weekly sermons.

Q & A: Mike Huckabee on Faith, Social Issues, and a Possible Run — Christianity Today

Q) According to a Pew survey last August, 29 percent of evangelical Christians believe Obama is a Muslim, while only 27 percent think he is a Christian. Who or what is at fault for this misperception, and do evangelical attitudes/beliefs need to change?

He’s been very expressive in his statements, even at the Saddleback Forum when he ran in 2008. He spelled out very clearly what his view was, and frankly, it’s inappropriate, wrong-headed, and not helpful to the overall discussion when people try to say he doesn’t have a birth certificate or he’s a Muslim. To me that demeans the entire real discussion—what is he proposing and whether it’s good for the country — that ought to be the centerpiece for our entire conversation, not what did he hear when he sat in church. If people went back and heard every sermon I heard when I was a little kid and some of the more fundamentalist pastors were yelling from the pulpit at me, if they took every one of those sermons and lifted out of them certain phrases and things, it could be scandalous, but only out of the context of the bigger picture. That’s why I thought that a lot of the focus on Jeremiah Wright was misplaced.

It boils down to this, Huckabee is a tool, if we nominate him we’re guaranteed another four years of hope ’n change.