Huckabee has been in the news for comments he's made while promoting his book. He was criticized by many in the media, when he called Beyonce's music "mental poison" in the book. He also questioned the president's parenting for allowing his daughters to listen to the singer's music.

He has said he is considering running for president again in 2016 and will make a decision in the spring.

Huckabee took issue with the president's depiction of how Christianity had been used in the debate over civil rights."It was the pulpits of America — yeah, some of them were wrong — but many of them were the ones who brought the conscious of the nation to get them right," he said, noting that Christian preachers were leaders in the civil rights movement.Conservatives have long said that Obama isn't engaging aggressively enough with the issue of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which burned a Jordanian fighter pilot alive last week."He said our greatest threat was climate change,” Huckabee said of Obama. “I assure you that a beheading is much worse than a sunburn," repeating a line he used a few weeks ago at the Iowa Freedom Summit.