Egan: "The Fictions of Mike Huckabee"

[Iwillnevergiveup]

A richly deserved skewering of the squirrel-in-the-crock-pot presidential aspirant.


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"Mike Huckabee is supposed to be the Republican with a heart. He's the guy who said Mexicans are people too during the 2008 race for the White House. He's the weight-loss humanist who refused to join that anti-common sense fringe of his party bashing Michelle Obama for suggesting that children eat more vegetables.

"But beneath the veneer of Aw-Shucks-Huck is a public figure, and possible presidential candidate who has shown a pattern of telling falsehoods about himself and the president."

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http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/03/03/the-fictions-of-mike-huckabee/?src=me&ref=general

by Timothy Egan

[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Nutshell

"During more than 10 years as governor, Huckabee granted twice as many requests for clemency as his predecessors had over 17 years. Some of the most hardened convicts played the religion card, and went on to further violence.

"The pattern here raises two major concerns. He constructs alternative views: a convict is saved by Jesus, instead of using Jesus to get out of jail, or, Obama is a bad president because he’s not really an American."

[jemelanson]

2. Huckabee has no place in any elected office.

The State of Washington, The city of Lakewood, and the families of the four Lakewood Police Officers targeted and murdered while having coffee on Sunday Morning Nov 29, 2009 by one of the convicted felons who play the Jesus saved me while in prison card, Huckabee turned this felon loose and shipped him off to Washington State so Huckabee and Arkansas did not have to deal with this dangerous person. I was living in Washington State when this happened. I remember the pain and grief that was the results. Huckabee has no place in any government office, city, county, state, or federal office. His judgement must be called into question and probably Fox is the best place for him, since telling the truth is not a job requirement for any position in that pretend News group.

[Iwillnevergiveup]

3. Yes, jemelanson

I'd imagine that horror would still be very fresh in your mind. To me it appears every time Huckleberry opens his mouth, he sinks deeper into a putrid swamp.

[texshelters]

5. Yet, I won't be surprised

if the newly reconfigured radical right Republican party gives him the nomination. Many don't think Obama can be defeated and they might send out Mike to make a point and let him lose once and for all.

Peace,
Tex Shelters

[customerserviceguy]

4. He's a preacher

Most of them make an above-average living from selling fiction.