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Huckabee - Theocrat wannabe

Tue, 18 Dec 2007 18:29:50 GMT

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clipper's remarks: So, he's lying about his qualifications, and deluding himself that he knows what "this war on terror" is about.

AND he thinks fighting fire with fire is a good idea, too.

Clip Source: www.alternet.org

In November, Huckabee tried to claim the mantle of the GOP's leading terror fighter, arguing:

"I think I'm stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war that we are in with Islamo fascism. These are people that want to kill us. It's a theocratic war. And I don't know if anybody fully understands that. I'm the only guy on that stage with a theology degree."

Apparently, Mike Huckabee knows a theocrat when he sees one.

Well, unfortunately Huck's campaign had to do some backpedaling because the rapist/murderer-releasing Baptist minister and former Arkansas governor doesn't have a theology degree -- he only spent a year in seminary.

Tags: religion, politics, political, christianity, ethics, evangelical, mike huckabee, morality

Render Unto Ceaser

Thu, 13 Dec 2007 17:46:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: When people make their faith a reccomendation to the voters, it becomes important to review and consider their statements in light of the faith they claim and consider the implications that arise if we believe they are sincere - and also the implication that arise if we find their professed faith is in conflict with their ambitions.

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I have a serious problem with the ultimate credibility of both Mitt Romney and Mike Huckabee, which has nothing to do with their politics. It's with what both claim to inform and shape their politics, their faith.

But if we are to praise men of faith who do their best to honor the words of Christ as they understand them in the world, we must heed Matthew 6:24 :

"No one can serve two masters; for either he will hate the one and love the other, or he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You cannot serve God and wealth."

Which means, alas, that neither man should, in conscience, be running for political office, knowing full well that they cannot and must not serve two masters.

The only question is this: which one will they choose to betray?

Tags: optional. separate by commas., constitution, culture, ethics, mike huckabee, pro-life amendment, mitt romney

Dems place their faith in Mike Huckabee

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:44:05 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I'm particularly amused by the fact that he wants to make all pornography illegal - but is absolutely opposed to the slightest sanction against hate speech.

For a person of the slightest intellectual capacity, that level of cognitive dissonance could cause serious damage.

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over at the Daily Kos, devout Democrats hold prayer vigils in hopes of his nomination, observing that a candidate that splits the Republicans between the Religious Right and everyone else AND who has Willie Horton as an invisible running mate is pretty much a free pass for any Democratic candidate with a pulse.

I concur. And my hunch - and that's all that it is, a hunch - is that it may well end up with Ron Paul getting the nomination. Not because of his high positives (I'd call them moderate positives) but because of the overwhelming negatives carried by everyone else. Even those turned off by his anti-war stance may well vote for him rather than Hillary. Many say (with probable accuracy) that "he can't win the nomination," but I'm starting to think that it's a case where everyone else is going to lose worse.

Tags: ethics, bizarre, mike huckabee, politics, ron paul

Huckabee Soft-headed on Crime

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 22:37:53 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The more you look behind the smiling, nice guy, small town preacher facade, the more you realize you have met a plot device from a Steven King novel...

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this is not about a governor carefully reviewing a case and finding grounds for reasonable doubt - in Huckabee's case, the process appears to be whimsical, insensitive and entirely inexplicable to the legal community.

When you talk to prosecutors around the state, many of them will tell you they're unhappy that Gov. Huckabee pardons criminals without letting law-enforcement officials or victims' families know why he's doing it, as he's required by law.
___ "He doesn't take giving clemency very seriously," complains Saline County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Herzfeld, who will push for new legislation next year to make the clemency process less secretive.

signally and contrary to the Arkansas state constitution, he refuses to explain his reasons for granting clemency.

Tags: mike huckabee, e, pardon, politics, rapist, rape, republican leadership, wayne dumond

That Inexplicable Clinton Magic

Tue, 11 Dec 2007 19:49:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: I have never quite understood what it is about Bill Clinton that provokes hatred to such a degree that even otherwise fairly sensible people are perfectly willing to commit obvious and outrageous perversions of justice in what generally turned out to be futile efforts to discredit him. It turns out that this perverse "magic" predates his presidency and, of course, Ken Starr.

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Politically, there existed a fervent movement that believed Dumond was the victim of a Bill Clinton vendetta, carried out by the state's Democratic political machine. That movement, which had helped Huckabee ascend to power just months earlier in 1996, ramped up pressure on the newly elected governor to rectify a wrong.

Huckabee himself was either friends with or associated to several of the key activists who publicly criticized Dumond's arrest. And Huckabee's particular religious background made him disposed to believing that Dumond -- who would go on to rape and murder another woman upon his release -- was either innocent of his crimes or had been rehabilitated in prison.

Those close to the case say that in the end, it was a combination of these factors that compelled Huckabee to ignore evidence, forgo advice, and ultimately press the parole board for the release of Wayne Dumond.

Tags: bill clinton, mike huckabee, wayne dumond, rape, rapist, pardon, politics, ethics, bizarre

You cannot be "pro life" without being "pro choice."

Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:02:12 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Nobody gets a free pass on this concept, because no political movement that believes in futzing with other people for their own good believes differently. They simply futz with different people for different reasons, aiming for a different "social good."

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To me, life IS choice. To the extent that you choose to preclude my choices to your economic benefit or spiritual comfort, you are saying that your life, your lifestyle, and your personal moral comfort is more important that mine.

And herein lies the inherent moral flaw to the Pro-life movement in practice - you cannot be "pro-life" when you are "anti-my-life."

To the extent that you arrogate unto yourself to make critical life-choices on my behalf (or unto others at my expense), you have chosen to take part of my life.

Tags: mike huckabee, anti-choice, pro-life, pro-life amendment