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- SheilaNoya, on 02/01/2008, -23/+199Reason #6: Huckabee preaches about the End Times and that Armageddon is near. He's convinced that the world will end soon and Jesus will return. There is no way in hell that a man with such beliefs should be in control of our military and our foreign policy.
I want a president who wants to improve the world, not one who wants to destroy it, hoping that it might bring Jesus back. - agentsully, on 02/01/2008, -4/+73These are great reasons, but he probably won't get the nomination. We now need the 100 reason not to like McCain, who seems to have the real momentum now.
- N3tw0rk, on 02/01/2008, -13/+81There are a few more reasons why Huckabee scares me...
"Who Doesn’t Believe in Evolution?"
Moderator: "A show of hands please… Let me remind you this is the only top vote-getting question asked." That's Brownback, Tancredo and Huckabee with their hands up.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmUbe7-GpP4
Huckabee gave speech to white supremacists
Well before he was a nationally known political star, Huckabee nurtured a relationship with America's largest white supremacist group, the Council of Conservative Citizens. He accepted an invitation to speak at the group's annual conference in 1993 and ultimately delivered a videotaped address that was "extremely well received by the audience."
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters?bid ...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-blumenthal/mike- ...
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_gave_speech ...
Mike Huckabee Denies Evolution
Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee denies evolution on Real Time with Bill Maher.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sXajXz4DF1w
Proof Mike Huckabee is Bought and Paid for
He has an unusual record of receiving gifts. Over ten years, Huckabee took hundreds of gifts, more than $112,000 worth in one year alone. State Ethics Committe admonished him 5 times. In 1999, Jennings Osbourne gave $53,000 in gifts to Huckabee. He was then appointed to a state position
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pRDxY42BpU
Huckabee Embraces Confederate Flag To Woo White Evangelicals
Seeking to mobilize an insurgency of white evangelicals against the Republican establishment, the former Arkansas governor directly appealed to voters on the issue of race, summoning his fellow candidates to stop calling for the removal of the Confederate flag from government offices.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/01/18/huckabee- ...
Scientists: US 'doomed' if creationist president elected
A day after ordained Baptist minister Mike Huckabee finished first in the opening round to choose a Republican candidate for the White House, scientists warned Americans against electing a leader who doubts evolution.
http://www.physorg.com/news118756781.html
Huckabee: Amend Constitution To Conform To the Bible
Huckabee told a Michigan audience: "But I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view."
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Huckabee_Amend_Const ...
Huckabee called homosexuality "dangerous public health risk"
Mike Huckabee also once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, and opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/09/politics ...
New Documents Revealed in Case of Huckabee's Support for Freeing Rapist
Even with these documents at hand, Huckabee supported the release of Dumond from prison, backed by fervent anti-Clinton activists.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/10/huckabeed ...
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/70249/
Huckabee Covered Up His Son's Torturing and Murdering of Dog
David Huckabee admits to catching a stray dog, hanging it by its neck, slitting its throat and stoning it to death. Within months, Gov. Mike Huckabee fired the prosecutor who filed animal cruelty charges against his son.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/78241
http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/70939/
"The national media seems to have a crush on our ex-governor, but here in Arkansas, we know better"
In his successful 1994 run for lieutenant governor, he set up a nonprofit curtain known as Action America so he could give speeches for money without having to disclose the names of his benefactors. He failed to report that campaign travel payments were for the use of his own personal plane. After he became governor in 1996, he raked in tens of thousands of dollars in gifts, including gifts from people he later appointed to prestigious state commissions. Furniture he'd received to doll up his office was carted out with him when he left, after he'd crushed computer hard drives so nobody could ever get a peek behind the curtain of the Huckabee administration. He converted a governor's mansion operating account into a personal expense account, claiming public money for a doghouse, dry-cleaning bills, panty hose and meals at Taco Bell. He tried to claim $70,000 in furnishings provided by a wealthy cotton grower for the private part of the residence as his own, until he learned ethics rules prevented it. When a disgruntled former employee disclosed memos revealing all this, the Huckabee camp shut her up by repeatedly suggesting she might be vulnerable to prosecution for theft because she'd shared documents generated by the state's highest official. Inauguration funds were used to buy clothing for his wife. He once took control of the state Republican Party's campaign account -- then swore the account had been somebody else's responsibility when it ran afoul of federal election laws. Ask the retarded Fort Smith teenager, raped by her stepfather, who sought Medicaid funding for an abortion as federal law required. Huckabee stood in the hospital door, at least figuratively, to prevent state funding. He championed a law in Arkansas making it harder to get a divorce, the so-called covenant marriage law that has been widely ignored except when he and his wife recommitted in a Valentine's Day publicity stunt held in a 17,000-seat arena. Huckabee's administration worked hard and unapologetically to prevent gay people from being foster parents. He avidly supported the state amendment that bans gay marriage as well as civil unions and bans any equal treatment under the law -- such as in health insurance coverage -- for same-sex partners. To this day, Huckabee tries to minimize his responsibility for DuMond's release. Huckabee's 2007 book "From Hope to Higher Ground" also fudges the facts, implying that DuMond died before being convicted of either Missouri murder. In one recent interview, he even suggested that he had fought DuMond's parole, a statement his own writings prove to be a lie.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/13/hu ...
Ethics controversies and slips of tongue could trip up campaign plans
The state Ethics Commission has investigated 14 complaints against Huckabee and validated five. Two pertain to unreported gifts - a $500 canoe and a $200 stadium blanket - and three to cash the governor or his wife received but did not initially report: $43,150 from his 1994 lieutenant governor's campaign for use of his personal airplane, $14,000 Janet Huckabee received from his 1992 U.S. Senate campaign, and $23,500 from a tax-exempt organization he incorporated with others in 1994, but whose funding source isn't known. The Action America organization, Huckabee said, was set up to coordinate parts of his private-sector speaking schedule during his three years as lieutenant governor.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15853756/
Huckabee stakes his claim as God’s own candidate
Jonathan Falwell, son of the infamous TV preacher Jerry Falwell who died earlier this year, reported on Huckabee’s recent appearance at Liberty University, the right-wing school founded by his father. Falwell, in a piece for the conservative NewsMax site, reported, “Mr. Huckabee also said that Divine providence was responsible for his recent surge in the polls in Iowa, as he noted that he is the candidate with much less capital firepower than his rivals.”
http://www.newsmax.com/falwell/huckabee_liberty_un ...
Huckabee: God Is Putting Me Ahead In The Polls
Mike Huckabee at the Liberty University convocation, attributed his rise in the polls to divine power.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSQNSlUUoOc
In 1998 he said, "I hope we...take this nation back for Christ"
"Government knows it does not have the answer, but it's arrogant and acts as though it does," Huckabee said. "Church does have the answer but will cowardly deny that it does and wonder when the world will be changed."
http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/1998/jun/08/hu ...
Mike Huckabee on the role of women in society
In 1998 he endorsed an ad affirming the Baptist teaching that a "wife is to submit herself graciously to the servant leadership of her husband"
http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=2510
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/12/10/12517 ...
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com/archives/1389 ...
Playing Both Sides of the Pulpit
In a 1998 book decrying American culture, Huckabee was no seeker of common ground. He drew stark lines, equating environmentalists with pornographers and homosexuality with pedophilia and necrophilia. He also declared that people who do not believe in God tend to be immoral and to engage in destructive behavior.
http://www.motherjones.com/washington_dispatch/200 ...
Mike Huckabee on Federal Raids for Medical Marijuana Patients
Questioner: "But you wouldn't stop the raids on cancer patients?"
Huckabee: "Probably not."
http://ca.youtube.com/watch?v=sMr-GCXmUKo
Media ignoring Mike Huckabee's remarks about the Confederate flag
The Confederate battle flag, to which Gov. Huckabee was alluding, was first flown over the South Carolina state Capitol in 1962, as a deliberately belligerent riposte to the civil rights movement, and is not now, and never has been, the flag of that great state. By a vote of both South Carolina houses in the year 2000, the Confederate battle flag ceased to be flown over the state capitol. Huckabee responded: "You don't like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag. In fact, if somebody came to Arkansas and told us what to do with our flag, we'd tell 'em what to do with the pole; that's what we'd do."
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/us/politics/18ca ...
http://www.slate.com/id/2182358 - allaboutdatiki, on 02/01/2008, -6/+60It really sucks that he comes off as a nice guy with an honest to god (ducking) sense of humor. Not that's he's not wacky.
CAN'T WE JUST START FREAKING OVER WITH A NEW BUNCH OF CANDIDATES? - wreckosaurus, on 02/01/2008, -1/+55I wouldn't worry too much, it really doesn't seem like huckabee's going to win
- totorototoro, on 02/01/2008, -0/+45One reason why you shouldn't be too afraid of Mike Huckabee:
1) He's not going to win. - SheilaNoya, on 02/01/2008, -7/+49My father was a Baptist preacher, just like Huckabee. I know firsthand how scary these crazy Southern Baptist evangelicals are.
Try listening to some of Huckabee's sermons and those of John Hagee, who also preaches the beliefs of the Southern Baptist Convention. Hagee also claims we are in our "last days" and virtually promises his flock of gullible believers that Huckabee will help bring about the resurrection of Christ. Both Huckabee and Hagee are firm believers in the End Times and they both want to see the Jews take control of the Holy Lands again so the bible prophecy can be fulfilled.
To people like Huckabee and Hagee, the "evildoers" who are destroying the world are the gays, the abortionists, the so-called "liberals", and anyone else who doesn't subscribe to their insane and archaic religious fanaticism.
If you want a religious extremist as your leader, I suggest you move to Iran. - ronaldinho, on 02/01/2008, -1/+34I am Christian and even I'm afraid of the man. I think we have learn from history that you can't just impose religion onto people. That's why we had the bloody Crusades and religious wars. Faith is a personal thing; one has to accept it willingly on his/her own and not have it forced upon them. Be wary of anyone who is trying to break the separation of church and state.
- ethanpack, on 02/01/2008, -2/+25Too bad Jesus wasn't born on December 25...
- RealmDown, on 02/01/2008, -2/+19Or at least add a "NO" vote to the ballots.
- lnf69, on 02/01/2008, -2/+19One small example of how the Ten Commandments differ from religion to religion;
Jewish; Do not murder
(Roman Catholic) You shall not kill
(Lutheran) You shall not murder"
Protestant:
Requires all lawful endeavors to preserve our own life, and the life of others.
Forbids taking away of our own life, or the life of our neighbor, unjustly (Just taking of life includes self-defense and times of War.); and, anything that tends toward depriving life
and then Muslim:Do not kill unjustly - inactive, on 02/01/2008, -3/+20Jimmy, Jimmy, Jimmy... If you're gonna make up *****, at least come up with something that can't be discounted with about two seconds' worth of research. I mean, in my Hebrew class, we actually had to translate the different versions as a homework assignment. Not that I can remember a word of Hebrew today, mind you, but geez louise, I can't believe you said that.
- brnagi, on 02/01/2008, -0/+16I hope your right, but a lot of people said "there is no way in hell Bush is going to get re-elected"
- suxmonkey, on 02/01/2008, -3/+19Try: Wikipedia ... just as a starting point. You can find more references there. Just a suggestion.
- falstaff, on 02/01/2008, -0/+14I only need one reason to NOT be "afraid" of Huckabee:
In 5 days, he'll drop out of the race and return to complete and utter irrelevance where he belongs. He has no future in national policy-making. He's a one-hit wonder who combines big-government economic policy with ultra-conservative social policy that appeals to maybe 5-10% of the national population. If an asteroid fell on Romney, McCain, Paul, Clinton and Obama, and Huckabee were the only major contestant left on either side, he'd lose the national election to a write-in campaign for Mickey Mouse.
450 some-odd Diggs so far is so much more attention than he deserves. - lpmiller, on 02/01/2008, -3/+165 REASONS NOT TO FEAR MIKE HUCKABEE:
1 He will not get elected.
2 He still will not get elected
3 Being president does not in fact give you the power to rewrite the constitution, and he'd hardly be the first super religious president in history.
4 Yet it won't matter, he will not get elected.
5 Chuck Norris clearly uses way to much Grecian Formula 16. - wastelander, on 02/01/2008, -3/+16Even if he doesn't plan to help facilitate Armageddon, anyone who expects the world to end "any time now" isn't likely to be overly concerned about the future. Why worry about global warming and national debt if the end of the world is just months away? Not a good person to put in a leadership role.
- mtjohnson, on 02/01/2008, -4/+17If God chose Mike Huckabee to win, considering the current state of his campaign, what does that say about God?
- brnagi, on 02/01/2008, -8/+21Anybody that thinks that "God" choose them to lead a nation has some serious mental issues.
- MacEnvy, on 02/01/2008, -1/+13That was reminiscent of Iraqi Information Minister Muhammed Saeed al-Sahaf. I hope you're proud of your willful ignorance.
"The armies of Iraq are defeating the Yankee infidels as we speak. What explosion? No no, that's spontaneous applause for our beloved President Hussein." - jlharrity, on 02/01/2008, -0/+12The moustache + mullet combo?
But seriously, get religion out of politics. - mtjohnson, on 02/01/2008, -2/+13100 reasons to not like McCain? How about this:
The United States military could stay in Iraq for "maybe a hundred years" and that "would be fine with me," John McCain told two hundred or so people at a town hall meeting in Derry, New Hampshire, on Jan 3. And U.S. troops could be in Iraq for "a thousand years" or "a million years," as far as he was concerned. - simg, on 02/01/2008, -0/+11thank God.
- dinsy, on 02/01/2008, -1/+12Somebody told you to think that.
- SheilaNoya, on 02/01/2008, -0/+10Huckabee is on his best behavior in a televised debate in front of millions of people. Go to one of his rallies where he preaches about "taking back America for Jesus" and you'll get a much better feel for what a nutcase he really is.
- Hetman, on 02/01/2008, -1/+11"Well, what I’m simply saying, we’ve changed the Constitution 27 times in 221 years. But the Ten Commandments are still the Ten Commandments. We haven’t added or subtracted any of them, and that’s my point, is that the Constitution was created with the understanding that it could be changed, we could make changes" The Beauty of the constitution and of Science is that it can be changed. That it is not set in stone. Changing situations and new informations should make you make amendments to the constitution. I hate when people like Huckabee makes a statement that the bible or something in the bible is correct because it has never been changed. That is just ridicilous.
- ICSU, on 02/01/2008, -1/+10Pointing to someone's lack of skills and abilities is not hatred.
- hotpepper, on 02/01/2008, -0/+9Chosen by God? Does he even KNOW Stevie Wonder?
- ICSU, on 02/01/2008, -2/+11Anybody who thinks god chose them to do anything specific has serious mental issues.
- FredFredrickson, on 02/01/2008, -0/+8That's what I thought LAST time.
- kgool, on 02/01/2008, -1/+9This guy does not stand a chance in hell of winning, so what's the big deal?
- Loonatickle, on 02/01/2008, -3/+11Of course we believe in religious tolerance, which is precisely why many of us don't want an evangelical as our leader. An evangelical is, by its very definition, not tolerant. An evangelical believes everyone else is wrong and needs to be converted. How is that tolerant? Huckabee is a dominionist. He wants to make the US more Christian-like.
- fsweep, on 02/01/2008, -2/+10... and you know this because?
Ever visit www.raptureready.com? This flavor of lunacy is very real. Evangelicals eat that ***** up. - Luminoth, on 02/01/2008, -1/+9The rational people aren't saying they won't vote for him because he's a nutjob, they're saying they won't vote for him because they believe he'll try to force his nutjob beliefs onto the public through changes to the constitution.
- brnagi, on 02/01/2008, -2/+9Southern culture involves lynching homeless animals?
Wow ... - sotloo, on 02/01/2008, -1/+8And he believes that the earth is only 6000 years old
- PhantomPhoenix, on 02/01/2008, -7/+14Yeah, Jesus was most likely born in the spring. That is, the non-divine Jesus of Nazareth whose messages of peace and love have been twisted into 'Christianity'.
- ghm101, on 02/01/2008, -3/+10I want to campaign strongly for point 4...
but my wife won't let me. :( - inactive, on 02/01/2008, -6/+13anyone who believes god exists has serious mental issues...
- ICSU, on 02/01/2008, -1/+8The world will do much better without any military intervention.
If you want to improve the world, promote free trade and exchange if knowledge. - Darrelc, on 02/01/2008, -2/+9If I digg you up will I get aids? Thats what mike said :(
- Proctor, on 02/01/2008, -7/+13Why isn't this being done to McWar? Oh right, he was too busy throw punching islamic radicalism.
- ICSU, on 02/01/2008, -1/+7and elsewhere. Keep it to yourself.
- Nougat, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6The Constitution being amendable is *what makes it great.*
- pendrachken, on 02/01/2008, -3/+9people won't vote for him because he wants to push his beliefs on everyone else.... you know take AWAY religious freedom.
- SickMonkey, on 02/01/2008, -6/+12One Very Good Reason To Be Afraid of Chuck Norris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7czRrFNRQO0 - moskaudancer, on 02/01/2008, -3/+9No, the difference is that Paul also believes that none of those issues are any business of the federal government, and should be left to the states to decide.
- simg, on 02/01/2008, -0/+6I think many atheists are frightened by "hard-core" christians. and not without good reason.
as a group, you don't seem to be doing that all well with the whole "love thy neighbour" and "thou shalt not kill" thing... - pintomp3, on 02/01/2008, -9/+15some of those also apply to ron paul, particularly his denial of evolution, women's reproductive rights, and the separation of church and state.
- zakatov, on 02/01/2008, -1/+7Moral compass based on a literal interpretation of a 2000+ y.o. book written by ancient tribes leading the nation? Yes we should be afraid.
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