In the aftermath of his squabble with Beyonce, Mike Huckabee apparently views himself as an expert on the music business.
During an appearance on ABC’s This Week Sunday, the Republican presidential candidate complimented President Obama on the eulogy he delivered Friday in South Carolina at the funeral for Reverend Clement Pinckney, one of the nine victims of the Charleston shooting.
At the end of his remarks, Obama broke into song, carrying the tune of “Amazing Grace,” a touch that Huckabee deemed “wonderful” and worthy of a “recording contract.”
“I think so much of it was brilliant,” Huckabee said of Obama’s eulogy. “And by the way he has a wonderful voice, so post-presidential — I see a recording contract in his future.”
The former Arkansas governor argued, however, that the president regrettably “strayed into more of a political agenda” during the eulogy.
“I presided at a lot of funerals 30 years ago and before, and I never used it as an occasion to do anything other than to focus on the person and the qualities of that person who was deceased, and not to make it a time of cause,” Huckabee alleged.
On the topic of the Confederate flag that has become increasingly controversial since the Charleston shooting, Huckabee commended South Carolina lawmakers for making the “proper decision” of calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from the State House building.
“It was Republicans who stepped up and made this happen,” Huckabee underlined, specifically mentioning South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, all of whom are Republicans and all of whom demanded the removal of the flag.
Watch Obama’s full eulogy in South Carolina below.
H/T The Hill
