Former Gov. Mike Huckabee Speaks to Republican National Convention

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Huckabee: 'Some Things We Don't Want to Change'

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee (R-Ark.) rallies delegates at the Republican National Convention by arguing against big government.

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But I want to begin by doing something a little unusual. I'd like to thank the elite media for doing something that, quite frankly, I wasn't sure could be done, and that's unifying the Republican Party and all of America in support of Senator McCain and Governor Palin.

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The reporting of the past few days have proven tackier than a costume change at a Madonna concert.

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I grew up at a time and in a place where the civil rights movement was fought. And I witnessed firsthand the shameful evil of racism. I saw how ignorance and prejudice caused people to do the unthinkable to people of color, and it wasn't so many years ago.

I want to say with the utmost of sincerity, not as a Republican, but as an American, that I have great respect for Senator Obama's historic achievement to become his party's nominee, not because of his color, but with indifference to it.