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Sunday, Nov 8, 2009
On Christmas, when Mike Huckabee went pheasant hunting and claimed to have killed one of 4 birds flushed, he also threatened with a shotgun anyone who did not vote for him in the IA Caucus. I am not making this up. It was reported on the CNN Ticker, but disappeared the next day. He literally made a very clear statement to the effect that this is what could happen to someone who oppose him, referring to the dead bird. This is not funny and if you or I were to make such a comment to the president or in an airport, we would be jailed immediately. Why does no one speak of this? Why can a Christian man say such a thing and he is not confronted? This is amazing. I don't know who Mike Madden is, but if you have a shred of credibility, you will research this and broadcast it. Each day, I have less and less respect for Salon. It avoids real issues and ignores those who really have a strong opinion, such as Dennis Kucinich. Even John Edwards gets little attention for his courageous statements.
Get real, folks, or pack it in.
peace,
st john
I'm really starting to like the idea of Mike Huckabee as the Republican candidate of choice. The Democrats could even run John Kerry again and win this one.
He knows Americans of all political views (liberal and conservative and everything else) are threatened and intimidated by non-English speaking cultural minority members who they see every single day in their neighborhoods.
He is aware that Americans are irrationally afraid and desperately need villains to blame for their troubles, both real and imagined, and he is willing to exploit and stoke these fears for political gain.
In short, Huckabee is an expert on illegal immigration.
Huckabee has few well developed views, particularly in foreign policy, and voting for him is gambling on a black box. It is not surprising that he would take an area he knows little about and stretch his response to vaguely try to connect it with a domestic agenda he is more familiar with. This immigration link to Pakistan's instability is just such a scenario:
The most ominous parallel between Bush and Huckabee is the shell of religious conviction that they use to protect and advance their agenda. In mid-November Huckabee stated that there was a biblical responsibility to address global warming. While the outcome may suit some, by wrapping the policy in religious terms it closes the door to debate on the merits since any attack on the policy is necessarily an attack on someone's religious convictions. I'm hopeful that many voters have had quite enough of religion and "patriotism" used as tactics to silence debate.
But then look at this country. Look at all the romantic hyperbole being flung right now. You'd think Benazir Bhutto was the Messiah from the way people are airbrushing her memory.
As of now, only the Lehrer News Hour has penetrated the fog of romance around Bhutto and reminded us that the Taliban was formed and sent into Afghanistan under Bhutto's watch.
One of their Pakistani experts brought this up in a panel discussion and the other two experts nodded gravely. Nobody contested this assertion at all.
Where is this past accomplishment of hers mentioned in the rest of the media? They mention nothing of this in her obit anywhere.
How do Americans think the Taliban happened?
Those mujahedin who fought the Soviet Union -- they were not the Taliban. Those old mujahedin were the soldiers the Taliban fought when the Taliban took over Afghanistan.
So where did the Taliban come from, huh?
They came from Pakistan, during Bhutto's second term in office.
Huckabee is not the only one who isn't seeing things clearly right now.
Who would be Huckabee's Cheney?
Are you kidding? If the Huckster gets the nomination, why, gosh, I bet the Democrats could run Stalin and still get the nomination.
Much of the initial coverage about Fort Hood turned out to be wrong. Is there anything wrong with that?
The accountability imposed by another country for the CIA's kidnapping and torture reveals much about our own.
Fox News' morning show plays to type, talking about whether Muslims in the Army should face "special debriefings"
The survivor and author is upset about comparisons some on the right are making to genocide
Once seen as a lunatic fringe, reactionary anti-women groups are courting respectability
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