Republican Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee announced that he will not attend the New Baptist Covenant Celebration after former President Carter's remarks disparaging President Bush. In a press release posted to his website today, Huckabee stated, "While I continue to have great respect for President Carter as a fellow Christian believer and Baptist, I'm deeply disappointed by the unusually harsh comments made in my state this past weekend regarding President Bush, and feel that it represents an unprecedented personal attack on a sitting president by a former president which is unbecoming the office as well as unbecoming to one whose conference is supposed to be about civility and bringing people together." Huckabee also stated that it would be best for him to decline the invitation , rather than giving the impression that he endorsed what he said could become a "political", rather than spiritual agenda at the Convention. (Copyright 2007 Newsroom Solutions, LLC)
