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- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -9/+163Wow. I hardly need to spam this guy. He generates plenty of badpress all by himself.
Mike Huckabee:
Supports and will continue TORTURE of detainees.
At 8:30, Colmes asked Huckabee if he, as President, would use torture to extract intelligence about an imminent terrorist attack on America. In the process, he made the point that John McCain says that accurate information cannot be extracted by torture. Huckabee countered that point by claiming, "we have received good solid information from individuals from doing things of the nature you're describing"
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,295883,00.html
http://progressivezone.blogspot.com/2007/09/govern ...
Says he is for lower taxes, but INCREASED state spending 65.3 percent (1996-2004) and supported five tax increases. Taxes were raised twenty-one times for an increase of $883 million dollars. Arkansas' general debt shot up by almost $1 billion.
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/national/203850/
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=NmNjMmI1ODhjN ...
Supports the War in Iraq, the troop surge and the continued operation of the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.
http://senate.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm
Opposes the medical use of marijuana, and said he would continue to RAID, ARREST, PROSECUTE, and IMPRISON patients who are using marijuana as a medicine.
http://granitestaters.com/candidates/mike_huckabee ...
Vowed to Sign a Nationwide SMOKING BAN in public places.
http://blogs.usatoday.com/onpolitics/2007/08/hucka ...
Wants to give driver's licenses to illegal aliens.
http://arkjournal.com/2007/11/newsflash-mike-hucka ...
Grabbed national headlines with a governor's intervention that year to block the state from paying $419 for a retarded 15-year-old girl's abortion, her pregnancy stemming from being raped by her stepfather on a camping trip.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb5244/is_19 ...
Huckabee secured the realease of a convicted rapist name Dumond who then raped and killed again. - http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.asp ...
Believes in Creationism.
http://www.ncseweb.org/resources/rncse_content/vol ...
Ordered the destruction of tapes and hard drives containing embarassing information. Early in Huckabee's term as governor, documents, e-mails and memos stored on hard drives just like the ones that were destroyed formed the basis of embarrassing stories about Huckabee, including a 1998 story in the Arkansas Times detailing how Huckabee and his family were using the $60,000-a-year Governor's Mansion fund as their personal piggy bank.
http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.asp ...
It's not suprising that he opposes Campaign Finance Reform:
http://www.q-and-a.org/Transcript/?ProgramID=1010& ...
Huckabee is against same-sex marriage and civil unions. He outlawed same-sex marriage in Arkansas.
http://www.ontheissues.org/Mike_Huckabee.htm
Huckabee seems to love loot and has a dismissive attitude toward ethics, campaign finance rules and propriety in general:
In the 1992 contest, Huckabee used campaign funds to pay himself as his own media consultant. Other payments went to the family babysitter.
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.
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.
He sped final action on a bill to allow video poker at the state's racetracks, an act followed not long afterward by a $10,000 campaign contribution from the owner of the state's biggest race track,.
http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/13/hu ...
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The dark side of Mike Huckabee - http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/13/hu ... - V3n0M, on 11/30/2007, -8/+126Unfortunately, that's the last time they ever spoke.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -11/+123I knew he was stupid but god damn.
- IrishJoe, on 11/30/2007, -9/+89I wish those phone pranksters would stop doing that to poor Mike. They know he rode the short bus to school. He can't help it 'cause he's special. Poor little guy.
- geoboy, on 11/30/2007, -2/+73I am not a religious person, but I would think those who truly love God would find Huckabee's faux conversation somewhat offensive.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -5/+62Oy vey.
- yomamaisfat, on 11/30/2007, -6/+60Screw him and Chuck Norris for supporting him.
- SocialSound1982, on 11/30/2007, -6/+51I once woke up and god was talking to me through my tooth. He wanted me to go to the White House... Something about popcorn and a ray of light...
- vault, on 11/30/2007, -6/+51what the *****...
- conceptkid, on 11/30/2007, -11/+53Yep, sounds like something a preacher would do. Make up a complete lie and over exagerate everything with the intent of brainwashing people.
- AshamedAmerican, on 11/30/2007, -1/+40No wonder god changed his number.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -10/+47Any politician who references god or religion in a public forum should be punished harshly by the voters. Unfortunately the opposite tends to be true.
- seks03, on 11/30/2007, -7/+39It wasent god on the line it was Cheney planting false info and chump bought it
- groverblue, on 11/30/2007, -6/+37unreal.
- bryan567, on 11/30/2007, -3/+28makes me want to puke.
- Identity4, on 11/30/2007, -0/+20Didn't I catch you naked with a bowl of jello once?
- bspill1, on 11/30/2007, -4/+24what a nut job
- Chaoticfist, on 11/30/2007, -0/+20`Ouch.......Dude good for you. This dude not only stated facts, but supported them with info. If only the media has the balls to reprint this......
- SIRBERUS, on 11/30/2007, -2/+21I'm a Christian... and my opinion of this is... what could be more blasphemous and degrading than to exploit and bastardize the name of God for political agendas?
Seriously. Wtf. - diggette, on 11/30/2007, -5/+22if he gets elected...I am moving to Canada.
- Berkana, on 11/30/2007, -7/+23Do NOT forget how the reich-wing spun the name of God to deceive voters last time around!
Here's the inside scoop, from David Kuo, the former #2 in command in Bush's "Faith Based Initiatives" program:
As covered by 60 minutes:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9DkUBfOLZH4
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWMLXAFO0Kk
As covered by Olberman:
Part 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cKWLYC2BSSA
Part 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFuAbMaeyUg - citcokid, on 11/30/2007, -5/+21Huckabee was sac religious and insulting to the Lord trying to put words in Gods mouth. And the worst thing is that he is SUPPOSED to be a minister of Gods Word. Instead he showed his irreverence for the Lord by reducing Him to a stupid theatrical stunt. I thought it was very cheesy and very un-Christ like.
- genezorz, on 11/30/2007, -1/+16Offensive on so many levels
- ReturnToFreedom, on 11/30/2007, -2/+16Imagine this: Jesus returns and shows up at the Republican convention as a regular looking man. He gets on stage and starts talking about "loving our enemies" and about how it's easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven.
Jesus gets labeled a terrorist sympathizer who is dangerous to America and a communist. Jesus gets ridiculed and declared a radical extremist, just like he did the first time and by the same type of people. He'd probably be killed (again, although this time covertly) because Jesus was obviously really successful in getting his points across. - tidu, on 11/30/2007, -1/+14All the applause just goes to show you how interested in the meaningful parts of their religion the people in the room are...
- solarsavior, on 11/30/2007, -2/+15Really getting sick of a country ruled by someone's imaginary friend.
- Maamiyn, on 11/30/2007, -7/+20That is the most sacrilegious video clip I've seen in as long as I can remember. How can anyone claiming to have faith in the Lord be so light-minded as to feign a worldly conversation with the Lord, especially in front of an audience that must have at least some believers. That shows an utter lack of any sincere relationship with Him. Even worse, he is a Baptist (or some other evangelical) minister and was called to give an invocation, which should be a humble supplication in prayer, and he instead tries comedy. If evangelicals choose this guy over Romney, they deserve him and what happens to their country. I'm glad I live north of the U.S. border. No Mormon would ever be so trifling as to take the Lord's name in vain as Huckabee did here. It is appalling! I guess that's a natural outgrowth of believing in an incomprehensible ether-like sea of spirit energy as Protestants and Catholics believe God to be. If they refuse to think of our Heavenly Father as a very real and tangible exalted being who is omnipotent and omniscient, they would be unable to pray from the depths of humility in God-fearing reverence, as it is probably pretty difficult to think of a formless sea of ether-like spirit energy as having any kind of power or personality that could evoke reverent awe. I can barely think back to my life as a Protestant 22 years ago before my conversion, but this video clip does bring back some sense of what it was like and I'm glad I don't have a part of it anymore. It is worse than the theatrical prayers that you can see on Sunday morning nondenominational evangelical services on TV, especially just before they beg for money to support their lavish lifestyles.
- looselips, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12Funny I had a dream like that, but FSM told me to bring a bag of pretzels instead.
- fungusmonkey, on 11/30/2007, -0/+12He was hot, and he was hungry.
- lexington86, on 11/30/2007, -4/+15what an asshat
- djvchris, on 11/30/2007, -7/+18I know this is just begging for major burying, but I see this more as a dumb "hop on the republican bandwagon" way to convey that conservatives believe they are the "evangelical" or "blessed" party than some silver bullet against Huckabee's candidacy. If you want to take issue with him, do so using the evidence mentioned above by truegodofwar rather than with what is obviously a poorly-executed joke.
- inactive, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10yeh.....he would be tazed right after the camel part............
- tidu, on 11/30/2007, -4/+14Actually, Mike just spoke to Chuck Norris the other day when they made that campaign advertisement.
- nonchai, on 11/30/2007, -4/+14i dug you, because i kind of agree. But i must say, its worrying that the USA has become such a victim of the religious right. Do you guys never learn ?.
The USA evagelicals will get their wish - USA will become a theocracy. But as a consequence it will destroy both the financial and moral standing of the US with the rest of the democratic world. The Chinese and Russians must be killing themselves with laughter and joy - watching the USA bankrupt itself while gradually self destructing in a fit of religious patriotic fervor - Chaoticfist, on 11/30/2007, -0/+10As a canadian i will start a real rebellion if that happens. I swear i will start fighting. Over my dead body will this nation form a union with the usa or mexico.....
- SRSco, on 11/30/2007, -2/+11Oh hell no.
- vatosplace, on 11/30/2007, -4/+13Right now the GOP would have an easier time getting Ronald Reagan's corpse elected as any of the 'mainstream' GOP candidates.
Dig up Dutch 08! - spucky, on 11/30/2007, -1/+10What part of unidentified flying object do you not understand? If you have ever seen an object/light in the sky and you didn't know what it is, you have seen a UFO. Are you some kind of freak?
- evildeadguy, on 11/30/2007, -2/+10Chuck Norris also knows how to suck mean *****.
- TwinTurboMike, on 11/30/2007, -4/+12You mean the northern part of the North American Union?
- gthyb, on 11/30/2007, -1/+9A bad Bob Newhart impression on top of it.
- wiihuck, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7if it's really "most" i'd think you could at least refute one.
- meschmie, on 11/30/2007, -3/+10After this and reading the article in Rolling Stone about the "Huckster" I have decided if he is elected president I will be moving Europe somewhere.
- UsernameTaken, on 11/30/2007, -2/+9Religious types are quite creative, I give you that.
- papashawn, on 11/30/2007, -1/+8Once upon a time, God dropped a pretzel in the oval office. Maybe he was trying to tell us something.
- trogdoor, on 11/30/2007, -0/+7You think that the current GOP would ever back a candidate like Ronald Reagan?
- davrobi, on 11/30/2007, -4/+10The christianist in Iowa will give him a victory then he will fall off of the face of the earth when he gets to the real Amercia, just as Pat Robertson did in 2000.,
- UTKEngineer, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6Why should any politician be punished for referencing God in a public forum?
- RandomGorilla, on 11/30/2007, -1/+7Sure! ALL the Religeous Right talk to 'god'. They don't tell you, though, that their god is Cthulhu!
- solarsavior, on 11/30/2007, -0/+6"Can you hear me now?"
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