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I never thought I'd see more reason from Mike Huckabee on any issue than a large subset of the Democratic party.
by KilljoyAZ on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:32:58 AM PDT
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Especially if you hang around here.
There's no reason to become alarmed, and we hope you'll enjoy the rest of your week. By the way, is there anyone here who knows how to run a government?
by iconoclastic cat on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:33:54 AM PDT
My goddess, Huck looked fraking Presidential.
Pity he thinks gays should go into the closet and women should be kitchen serfs and of course, that the planet is 6k years old.
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by angrytoyrobot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:34:58 AM PDT
He's also positive in his outlook for people. What he's not is an especially deep thinker, and the path along which he found ``enlightenment'' is a rather dark one, ultimately.
Seriously, I'd be very worried if he were running instead of McCain.
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by theran on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:38:52 AM PDT
(Nehemiah Scudder) in four years.
I will not live in a theocracy run by pseudo-Baptists. Yuck.
by angrytoyrobot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:44:59 AM PDT
"Future History" reference. :)
I wouldn't qualify for the Families though -- my parents were both fairly young when they died (though I could argue that smoking affected their lifespan)...
"Old soldiers never die -- they get young soldiers killed." -- Bill Maher
by Cali Scribe on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:51:38 AM PDT
Folly is fractal: the closer you look at it, the more of it there is.
by Canadian Reader on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:53:41 AM PDT
I think he is far more astute than he is given credit for. If he isn't a deep thinker, he certainly is attune to which way the wind is blowing.
He has read this campaign and made the best of it. He should have been tossed out with the bath water, yet he held on longer than anyone. He didn't exit until the last dog was hung, and who knows what was offered to him in the way on incentive.
I don't believe for a minute Huck is going away. He will be around and moving on up for the next round.
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by importer on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 07:45:25 AM PDT
Huck sounds so sane. Particularily to the insane.
Subtlety is the art of saying what you think and getting out of the way before it is understood.
by Granny Doc on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:01:58 AM PDT
Although he has some downright neanderthal positions on issues, he's got a charisma that I think would have more than made up for it, and I think he would have been a more formidable candidate than Mr. McCain Magoo.
Huck is younger than McCain. Not tainted by too much time in DC. Charismatic. Appears genuine.
On Saturday Night Live, he was actually very funny. Made fun of the fact that he hadn't yet dropped out of the race (at the time). When he talks, I get the feeling he actually believes what he says, unlike the feeling I get with McCain (or H. Clinton). He seems like a good and decent man on a personal level.
I remember thinking during one of his speeches, if Bush was the guy you'd like to have a beer with (or play Rochambeau), Huckabee is the guy I'd feel comfortable having him babysit my kids. And I was glad the Republican nominee was Magoo.
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by bejammin075 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:07:31 AM PDT
he had me the most worried because he was the most accessible and likeable of all the possible R nominees.
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by TrueBlueMajority on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:20:17 AM PDT
Huckabee contained the most innocuous traits of both Reagan and Bush II -- which would attract the low-information voters that Clinton considers her "base".
by Cali Scribe on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:49:47 AM PDT
They wouldn't fucking dare go after a man's religion with either of them on the ticket.
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by ptmflbcs on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:33:51 AM PDT
You'd think a Republican ticket of draft dogders and TANG AWOLers wouldn't dare attack the service of a fine soldier, but they did.
I expect either HRC or B. Hussein Obama (rhymes with "Osama") to both be attacked with much vigor from the Right.
But I think Obama has shown he's the one who can deflect it and maybe even turn it around and re-direct it. Clinton is the one who will have the Right wing shit stick to her, because her negatives are already so high.
by bejammin075 on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:12:44 AM PDT
Bush likes him and it will set Mitt up to run in 2016 or 2012 if McCain only serves one term.
by TrueBlueMajority on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:21:07 AM PDT
Nightmare Material!!
"What, Me Worry?"...King George Walker Alfred Eusless Newman Bush
by RantNRaven on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 10:35:38 AM PDT
for President...
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RObotic Mormon von Neumann Electronic Yesbot
M.I.T.T R.O.M.N.E.Y.
by angrytoyrobot on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 10:55:05 AM PDT
Mitt, the plastic android, for John's VP his robot smile and Ken doll hair are as scary as can be Mitt, the plastic android, for John's VP I'd rather see John run with Mitt than to pick Mike Huck-a-bee!
everybody sing!
anyone want to try some verses?
by TrueBlueMajority on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 11:16:54 AM PDT
Romney's family looked Stepford-like.
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by CenterLeft on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 12:43:38 PM PDT
and apparent state of health, both physical and mental, I'd be very surprised if he lasted through a single term.
I think Huckabee would damage the country more if he were the VP at the time McCain left office.
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by alizard on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 11:25:05 AM PDT
around the country, almost uniformly full of praises of Obama's courageous speech.
I think the diarist is making sweeping generalizations of media bias based on some of Jerome Armstrong's deranged recent postings on MyDD (I agree that he's gone crazy) and the predictable rantings of the wingnut press, like FOX.
However, it is also true that Hillary has so far gotten a free pass on her so-called "vetted" past. As the diarist says, the press should "get off your asses and do some real reporting".
"The blackbird whirled in the autumn winds. It was a small part of the pantomime." Wallace Stevens
by mobiusein on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:24:13 AM PDT
Which highlights all the buzz about Obamas speech
Groups Respond to Obama’s Call for National Discussion About Race
It is a sad state that some in the progressive blogosphere revert to cowering in fear of potential instead of getting out in front. It is evident by the NY times articles that the speech is being discussed in academeic and religious circles
Religious groups and academic bodies, already receptive to Mr. Obama’s plea for such a dialogue, seemed especially enthusiastic. Universities were moving to incorporate the issues Mr. Obama raised into classroom discussions and course work, and churches were trying to find ways to do the same in sermons and Bible studies.
The Obama speech was also a topic of discussion on Wednesday at the Washington office of the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic advocacy and social welfare group. Hispanics can be white, black or of mixed race.
This is not something we should be running away from. It is somethng we (all progressives) need to get behind and cheer.
by Hot2na on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:55:24 AM PDT
at work. Most of my co-workers are more liberal than most people here, and are Obama supporters (though they're Hilary's core demographic -- which says something). They follow politics pretty closely - except for one, who's also the youngest and the only guy.
His comment this morning was he wants to listen to Wright's sermons, because he doesn't believe one single thing the media cranks out. And he thinks Obama's pretty cool, and likes that he wouldn't jettison a long-time friend for political gain, even if it cost him support.
Remember - this is Eastern Shore MD, a rural, relatively conservative place. And my co-worker is a white male.
by mmacdDE on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:07:51 AM PDT
I kinda miss Huckles.
by babeuf on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 08:58:10 AM PDT
but he probably has one or two intemperate sermons in his own past, and he still wants to be McCain's VP (dream on, Huck).
by TrueBlueMajority on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:19:33 AM PDT
comment.
And more to the point, the church he used to preach at said that his past sermons are unavailable in any form.
by alizard on Thu Mar 20, 2008 at 09:46:18 PM PDT
by TrueBlueMajority on Fri Mar 21, 2008 at 11:33:50 PM PDT
wide narrow
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