I said this, really:
The problem for Huckabee is that he wants to have that same dry, charming sense of humor that John McCain has. The problem is that we reporters and the general public have been hearing McCain’s jokes for eight years. When he calls a student “a little jerk,” he expects us to go along with the joke. When he turns World War III into the missing verse of “Barbara Ann,” we’re supposed to think its clever … well, he doesn’t knock every one out of the park, but there is a sense of levity in it all — not panic.
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