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Questions for President Huckabee

Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee is a leading contender for the Republican Party's nominee for President of the United States, and he has not denied he believes the Earth is only 6,000 years old.

However, there are some questions the Second Man from Hope should be invited to answer, so that he might alleviate any doubt about his ability to properly think and come to correct conclusions, or not, as the Leader of the Free World.

For example, if man existed with the dinosaurs (who are reported in some places in The Bible), was it man who was responsible for their extinction? When Noah built the Arc, did he refuse entry to the two dinosaurs who were lined up for rescue? Did a whole species perish in the Great Flood?

Huckabee, a strong Christian, in fact a former minister of his church, is not abashed to make connections between himself and Jesus Christ. In one sense he may be justified to make this association. His Republican foes condemn him for his leniency in commuting the sentences of many Arkansas prison inmates, including 12 convicted of murder. However, Huckabee also justifies a number of state executions he's ordered. (Former Texas Governor George W. Bush holds the record, though, with 152 dead, one killing every two weeks on average, over six years.) Huckabee also maintains a belief in the correctness of the death penalty, and has convinced himself he was right to sign the death warrants of each human being he's had killed; without much of a pause, he has then again announced his commitment to the moral teachings of Jesus.

Was Jesus Christ an advocate of the death penalty?

Where does it say this in The Bible, as some conservatives and neo-conservatives have claimed it can be found?

If Christ was all right with the death penalty, did he arrive at this position out of personal experience?

Hucakabee can believe the Earth is only 6,000 years old, or that it's flat, if he wants to think that, too; he can think that Jesus Christ was a Republican; but not in our White House, please. It's time for someone who can handle the real problems of our real issues, including the huge messes created and left behind by the Bush administration.

Finally, if I had the chance, even if I worked for the corporate Republican media I'd ask this Republican contender for Presidency, "Governor Huckabee, do you think Hillary Clinton has fat ankles?"

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Comments (10)
#1 by dptaffet, Dec 30, 2007
Well, it's not. God said it's only 5768 years old. Now that's all the scientific proof I need.
#2 by EdRoberts, Dec 31, 2007
Hmmm, I have never personally heard Huckabee claim the earth is 6000 years old; if one is going to write an article claiming that he did, author is obligated to post a link to reliable proof.

Secondly: So what?

No where does the Bible state that the earth is 6000 years old. This figure was arrived at by a few religious nuts, a few hundred years ago - and the Bible DOES warn us against turning the precepts of men into dogma!

Next. The author should actually read the Bible, no where does it say anything about dinosaurs.

Interestingly, the Bible does state that in the kingdom of God, one day equals a thousand years - do the math - which would make the earth well over 2 billion years old.

The Bible does tell us that the apostles carried swords - one has to doubt that they were carried just for show ... Jesus was a practicing Jew (He was often called Rabbi), and again, Jews believed for example that a murderer is to be killed and sent to God to be judged.

Lastly, why is it okay to make fun of a republican\'s religion, but not a democrat's morals?
#3 by Dale Reynolds (writdale), Jan 2, 2008
Thanks, Inkstain58, for your sensible reaction. Happy New Year! - Dale
#4 by EdRoberts, Jan 3, 2008
This article can indeed lead us down many interesting discussion paths. Regarding the 6000 year thing - as Inkstain58 points out, the Taibbi article is also without attribution....

Now, as nothing in the original article can be made to stick, we throw in an \"evolution\" argument in order to make Mr. Huckabee look like a fool; and who knows - perhaps he is. Then again, perhaps he believes as do I, that God may well have used evolution to produce man. Or not...

Are we claiming there can be no questions? Remember, just one of many Scientific \"Proofs\" of just a generation or so ago was that the entire Universe consisted of just our own Galaxy - and if you questioned this or any of many \" scientific facts\" you were adjudged a fool.

I myself have a few lingering evolution questions; among them are:

Why did the alligator stop evolving some 250 million years ago? This flies in the face of the basic precepts of the evolution theory.

Since different species cannot procreate, with whom, when the laws of evolution suddenly changed the DNA of our ancestor Chimp and produced the first \"Adam\" did he reproduce?

My real point is that if Mr. Huckabee chooses to believe that his God created him, why do we feel we have the superiority that grants us the \"right\" to laugh at him? I might argue with him, but argument is no excuse for bad manners.

Hillary claims to be a Christian and that her faith has real meaning - we don\'t laugh at her? Gee, I wonder why...

Sales tax? Every sales tax has a reseller exemption so the point made above is invalid. I did hear Huckabee say that the \"poor\" would be exempt - don\'t know how he would work that, but...

I do know, that the rich scum-bags, who hide their incomes overseas, and pay little or no income tax, won\'t be able to buy all their goodies without paying up - now that\'s funny! Not to mention all the drug dealers, crooks and under-the-table scam artists.

There are a few things I do not like about Huckabee, but I feel that the \'Direction\' of the attacks on him I have heard lately are rather cheap and sleazy - and I wonder why that is?
#5 by quiet voice, Jan 3, 2008
Hey guys, keep your sense of humor, leave Huck alone, he cannot make it anyway unless he gets better organization and stops making these very visable and audible gaffs. Pick on the man
with all the money or the lady with all the inevitability :o).
All I am looking for is change for the better!
#6 by Dale Reynolds, Jan 18, 2008
Hi, Quiet Voice. I accept what you say. I have also "picked" on Romney (Will Mitt Fly The Mutt?) but I'll leave Hillary alone as I am a Democrat, too (although not a Clinton Democrat). The best change for the better will come, in my view, through Edwards. If Obama starts specifying his ideas, I'll consider him. Until any of that happens, though, I am going to pick on any one of the Republican crazies: or country cannot afford another one of those in any respect. ~ D.R.
#7 by EdRoberts, Jan 23, 2008
Dale:

Ah, gee, no wonder the article sounded a bit biased to me, you write an article then admit you consider all republicans "crazies" and won't write anything critical of a democrat.

This type writing and reporting has become a real problem in this country.

I am a republican, but have been highly critical of republicans the like of Bush, McCain and Romney...I am honest enough to say I see some good things in Obama...I have great respect for JFK and HHH - truly great men; in the democratic Party of old.

To me, the greatest attribute a writer can have is writing TRUTH; leave all the BS out of reach of your keyboard...if you want to write opinion - label it as such - if you want to make a point using satire, also acceptable; but don't hide prejudice and your political bias behind a facade of a straight article.

Just my opinion; and I do think this article woulda/coulda been a damn good one on an interesting subject, if you'd have been straight with it.
#8 by Dale Reynolds , Jan 30, 2008
Sorry, Ed, but I have written the truth. Huck is a bible nut and that has what's ruined his chances. Check out Huck and his passion to rewrite the Constitution in accordance with the scriptures.
Now there is a real Republican. So are the others, in their own ways, not one of which should please any thinking American.
Maybe YOU are not a Republican. If you like Obama, respect Kennedy and Humphrey, are you sure you belong to the party that gave us Bush, Cheney, and the last seven years of disaster?
#9 by EdRoberts, Feb 2, 2008
Dale:

As a true republican conservative, I am allowed to think for myself. Bush One was handed a winning Republican Party on a platter by Reagan. Bush One however was not a conservative, but rather a Country Club republican and started shredding the Party; Bush Two lied - he is NOT a conservative and has finished killing the Party!

The Republican Party needs to get rid of the neo-cons, who are neither republican nor conservative; the Country Club republicans; and many of the democrat-clone republican free spenders who have populated congress lately. Cheney is a liar, a fool and a neo-con.

At least I am \'free\' enough to criticize my own, it is very, very rare for a democrat to do so! Well, except lately, when Billy-Boy and Hillary have once again misplaced their ethics. Imagine, calling Obama - a Black man - a slum-lord!? Well, actually they made him something even less, they made him WORKING for a WHITE slum-lord! Just to win a stupid election...

Lastly, I have myself often debated Bible-\"nuts,\" as you refer to them. They are NOT the religion; most often they do NOT understand the Bible and badly misrepresent it. Understanding that, I do not make the mistake of disrespecting anyone\'s religion. To do so is unbecoming, stupid, and just plain bad manners.

And, saying that abortion is wrong, does not make one a nut...



#10 by EdRoberts, Mar 21, 2008
In light of the events of recent days, I had to come back and comment.

If you considered Huckabee\'s religious affiliations suspect, what do you now think of our most likely next President, Obama\'s?

I was shocked to discover that the man sat for years, in a pew listening to the hate-speech of a fool. I am even more shocked that for days now, people have defended it. When everyone KNOWS, that if any white candidate had sat in a pew listening to KKK-like rants, and had NOT walked out - his candidacy would be TOAST. As well it should be.

What a set of awful, awful choices we now have for President.
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