Salon:

Apparently, the Yad Vashem anecdote was such a hit Huckabee has taken to applying it to other topics. Over the weekend, Huckabee spoke at the annual NRA convention — the same venue where he made an awkward joke in 2008 about Barack Obama supposedly being shot at — and brought up the debt ceiling during his speech. Here’s how the Washington Post described his remarks:

[Huckabee] offered an anecdote that seemingly compared silence in the face of mounting debt in modern America to those who said nothing about the rise of the Nazis.

He recalled a family trip years ago to a Holocaust memorial in Jerusalem. He said he was comforted when his young daughter, at the end of the tour, wrote unbidden in the guest book: “Why didn’t anybody do something?”

“Let there never be a time in this country when some father has to look over his daughter’s shoulder and see her ask the haunting question, ‘why didn’t somebody do something?’ ” he said.

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