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Huckster: CFR puppet

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From: “Warren Baldwin” <wb@aeneas.net>
Subject: Fw:  Mike Huckabee is a Council on Foreign Relations puppet
Date: Fri, 28 Dec 2007 02:41:10 -0600

 

Mike
Huckabee is a Council on Foreign Relations puppet
visit:
Mike Huckabee on Late Edition -12/16/2007 – Part 1
http://youtube.com:80/watch?v=YEEDs35vEYw  

 
In
just one short video you will hear all of this:
 
1)
Mike Huckabee discussing his article for the CFR publication “Foreign
Affairs” .
To read this article visit:
http://www.cfr.org/publication/14335/mike_huckabees_speech_on_foreign_policy.html

 
2)
Mike Huckabee naming Richard Haas (the President of the CFR) as his advisor on
foreign policy. CNN’s WOLF BLITZER asked “Who are your principal foreign
policy advisers, Governor?” Mike Huckabee responded: “Well, I have a
number of people from whom I get policy. I’m talking to Frank Gaffney, I talk
to Richard Haas, I talk to a number of military people, some of whom I can’t
name because they’re active in the military…”
 
3)
Mike Huckabee declaring his support for the CFR controlled Bush administration.

 
4)
Mike Huckabee naming John Bolton as his advisor on foreign policy.  John
Bolton has been involved with Committee for Peace and Security in the Gulf
(CPSG), Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), Federalist Society, National Policy
Forum, National Advisory Board, Manhattan Institute for Policy Research, New
Atlantic Initiative, Project on Transitional Democracies, and U.S. Agency for
International Development (USAID).
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee calling for scholarships and in-state tuition for
illegal aliens.
 
Here
is the video of Mike Huckabee Calling for Scholarships and In-State Tuition for
Illegal Aliens:  
 
http://arkjournal.com/2007/11/following-is-from-one-of-my-favorite.html
  
 
(Ron
Paul says: “When we subsidize something we get more of it”)
 
Can Mike Huckabee serve the cause of liberty
if he is already playing ball with the CFR?
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s record for raising taxes:
 
Huckabee-
tax hike mike
http://www.taxhikemike.com:80/
Who’s biggest tax raiser?
http://www.arkansasleader.com/2007/11/editorialswhos-biggest-tax-raiser.html

 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s the betrayal of home schooling.
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s pardon of the man who raped and killed another
woman.
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s lying when he claimed that he was the only
candidate with a theology degree. 
 
Perhaps
we overlooked Mike Huckabee’s participation with the band, Capitol Offense,
which sings off color songs inconsistent, with his image as a pastor. 
 
At
a meeting of the Republican Governors Association, Huckabee pretended to
receive a phone call from God, on his cell phone. In the style of Bob Newhart,
Huckabee made God into a Straight Man in a comedy routine.
 
Huckabee’s
Phone Call From God:
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yj_okz7ZwI 

On the phone for me? How did he get my number? . . . . Yes, God? Yes, sir, I’m
right in the middle of the president’s coming. . . . . You see, you say you
want–you need an autograph. Oh, for Samson. . . . And, you know, God, this is a
pretty big event. We’ve got a lot of people and I’ve only got a very short time
here. Oh, you’ve got all the time in the world. I understand. . . . Yes, sir,
we know you don’t take sides in the election. But, if you did, we kind of think
you’d hang in there with us, lord, we really do. . . .
 
The
candidates will all try to sound like Ron Paul if he scares them enough, but do
not forget what they really are. 
 
Eight
out of twelve of them are CFR members.
As we now see, Mike Huckabee is very closely tied to the CFR.
Tom Tancredo dropped out.
That only leaves only Ron Paul and Duncan Hunter, who are not CFR stooges.
 
Watch
this:
http://www.ronpaulnation.com/tv.html#cfr  

visit:
http://www.ronpaulnation.com/tv.html#nwo_is_here

 
Ron
Paul at CNN Republican Debate 11-28-07
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-DdsRh_v-s

 
Watch
the faces of the nervous CFR members, while Ron Paul speaks!
Ron Paul TV videos on CFR, NAU,
 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#cfr_nau_canidates_2008

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#lou_dobbs_nau

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#lou_dobbs_nau_11_29_06

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#lou_dobbs_nau_laws

 
http://www.ronpaultv.com/#challenging_the_whole_system

 
Ron
Paul answers question if he is a member of the CFR
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NV_AML16tC8

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee beats out Scooter Libby on top 10 criminals!!!

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Judicial Watch Announces List of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt
Politicians” for 2007

Washington, DC –Judicial Watch, the public interest
group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, today released
its 2007 list of Washington’s “Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians.”  The
list, in alphabetical order, includes:

1.  Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton
(D-NY):  In addition to her long and sordid ethics record, Senator Hillary
Clinton took a lot of heat in 2007 – and rightly so – for blocking the release
her official White House records.  Many suspect these records contain a
treasure trove of information related to her role in a number of serious
Clinton-era scandals.  Moreover, in March 2007, Judicial Watch filed an
ethics complaint against Senator Clinton for filing false financial disclosure
forms with the U.S. Senate (again).  And Hillary’s top campaign
contributor, Norman Hsu, was exposed as a felon and a fugitive from justice in
2007.  Hsu pleaded guilt to one count of grand theft for defrauding
investors as part of a multi-million dollar Ponzi scheme.

2.  Rep. John Conyers (D-MI):  Conyers
reportedly repeatedly violated the law and House ethics rules, forcing his
staff to serve as his personal servants, babysitters, valets and campaign
workers while on the government payroll.  While the House Ethics Committee
investigated these allegations in 2006, and substantiated a number of the
accusations against Conyers, the committee blamed the staff and required
additional administrative record-keeping and employee training.  Judicial
Watch obtained documentation in 2007 from a former Conyers staffer that sheds
new light on the activities and conduct on the part of the Michigan
congressman, which appear to be at a minimum inappropriate and likely
unlawful.  Judicial Watch called on the Attorney General in 2007 to
investigate the matter.

3.  Senator Larry Craig (R-ID):  In one of
the most shocking scandals of 2007, Senator Craig was caught by police
attempting to solicit sex in a Minneapolis International Airport men’s bathroom
during the summer.  Senator Craig reportedly “sent signals” to a police
officer in an adjacent stall that he wanted to engage in sexual activity. 
When the police officer showed Craig his police identification under the
bathroom stall divider and pointed toward the exit, the senator reportedly
exclaimed ‘No!’”  When asked to produce identification, Craig presented police
his U.S. Senate business card and said, “What do you think of that?”  The
power play didn’t work.  Craig was arrested, charged and entered a guilty
plea.  Despite enormous pressure from his Republican colleagues to resign
from the Senate, Craig refused.

4.  Senator Diane Feinstein (D-CA):  As a
member of the Senate Appropriations Committee’s subcommittee on military
construction, Feinstein reviewed military construction government contracts,
some of which were ultimately awarded to URS Corporation and Perini, companies
then owned by Feinstein’s husband, Richard Blum. While the Pentagon ultimately
awards military contracts, there is a reason for the review process. The
Senate’s subcommittee on Military Construction’s approval carries weight. Sen.
Feinstein, therefore, likely had influence over the decision making
process.  Senator Feinstein also attempted to undermine ethics reform in
2007, arguing in favor of a perk that allows members of Congress to book
multiple airline flights and then cancel them without financial penalty. 
Judicial Watch’s investigation into this matter is ongoing. 

5.  Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani
(R-NY):  Giuliani came under fire in late 2007 after it was discovered the
former New York mayor’s office “billed obscure city agencies for tens of
thousands of dollars in security expenses amassed during the time when he was
beginning an extramarital relationship with future wife Judith Nathan in the
Hamptons…”  ABC News also reported that Giuliani provided Nathan with a
police vehicle and a city driver at taxpayer expense.  All of this news
came on the heels of the federal indictment on corruption charges of Giuliani’s
former Police Chief and business partner Bernard Kerik, who pleaded guilty in
2006 to accepting a $165,000 bribe in the form of renovations to his Bronx apartment
from a construction company attempting to land city contracts.

6.  Governor Mike Huckabee (R-AR): 
Governor Huckabee enjoyed a meteoric rise in the polls in December 2007, which
prompted a more thorough review of his ethics record.  According to The
Associated Press:  “[Huckabee’s] career has also been colored by 14 ethics
complaints and a volley of questions about his integrity, ranging from his
management of campaign cash to his use of a nonprofit organization to subsidize
his income to his destruction of state computer files on his way out of the
governor’s office.”  And what was Governor Huckabee’s response to these
ethics allegations?  Rather than cooperating with investigators, Huckabee
sued the state ethics commission twice and attempted to shut the ethics process
down.

7.  I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby:  Libby,
former Chief of Staff to Vice President Dick Cheney, was sentenced to 30 months
in prison and fined $250,000 for lying and obstructing the Valerie Plame CIA
leak investigation.  Libby was found guilty of four felonies — two counts
of perjury, one count of making false statements to the FBI and one count of
obstructing justice – all serious crimes.  Unfortunately, Libby was
largely let off the hook.  In an appalling lack of judgment, President
Bush issued “Executive Clemency” to Libby and commuted the sentence.

8.  Senator Barack Obama (D-IL):  A
“Dishonorable Mention” last year, Senator Obama moves onto the “ten most
wanted” list in 2007.  In 2006, it was discovered that Obama was involved
in a suspicious real estate deal with an indicted political fundraiser, Antoin
“Tony” Rezko.  In 2007, more reports surfaced of deeper and suspicious
business and political connections  It was reported that just two months
after he joined the Senate, Obama purchased $50,000 worth of stock in
speculative companies whose major investors were his biggest campaign
contributors.  One of the companies was a biotech concern that benefited
from legislation Obama pushed just two weeks after the senator purchased $5,000
of the company’s shares.  Obama was also nabbed conducting campaign
business in his Senate office, a violation of federal law.

9.  Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA):  House
Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who promised a new era of ethics enforcement in the House
of Representatives, snuck a $25 million gift to her husband, Paul Pelosi, in a
$15 billion Water Resources Development Act recently passed by Congress. 
The pet project involved renovating ports in Speaker Pelosi’s home base of San
Francisco.  Pelosi just happens to own apartment buildings near the areas
targeted for improvement, and will almost certainly experience a significant
boost in property value as a result of Pelosi’s earmark.  Earlier in the
year, Pelosi found herself in hot water for demanding access to a luxury Air
Force jet to ferry the Speaker and her entourage back and forth from San
Francisco non-stop, in unprecedented request which was wisely rejected by the
Pentagon.  And under Pelosi’s leadership, the House ethics process remains
essentially shut down – which protects members in both parties from
accountability.

10.  Senator Harry Reid (D-NV):  Over the
last few years, Reid has been embroiled in a series of scandals that cast
serious doubt on his credibility as a self-professed champion of government
ethics, and 2007 was no different.  According to The Los Angeles Times,
over the last four years, Reid has used his influence in Washington to help a
developer, Havey Whittemore, clear obstacles for a profitable real estate
deal.  As the project advanced, the Times reported, “Reid received tens of
thousands of dollars in campaign contributions from Whittemore.” 
Whittemore also hired one of Reid’s sons (Leif) as his personal lawyer and then
promptly handed the junior Reid the responsibility of negotiating the real
estate deal with federal officials.  Leif Reid even called his father’s
office to talk about how to obtain the proper EPA permits, a clear conflict of
interest.

Judicial Watch is a 501(c)(3) non-profit
organization.  Judicial Watch neither supports nor opposes candidates for
public office.  For more information, visit www.judicialwatch.org.

 

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

HUCK THE SCHMUCK

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HUCK THE SCHMUCK


by Alan Stang
December 27, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

I had thought that by now we knew
everything about Mike Huckabee: the love of more and higher taxes, the
betrayal of home schooling, the parole of the man who then raped and killed
another woman, the attempt to bring as many illegal aliens to Arkansas as possible,
et cetera and so on. Of course, I was horribly wrong.

Now come revelations that penetrate
to the heart of the man, which he says is the fact that he is a preacher of
Christ, except of course that his own staff now admits he was lying when he
kept boasting he was the only candidate on the stage with a “theology
degree.” Remember his smart aleck offer to
help Ghouliani when the moderator asked the Ghoul about his spiritual beliefs
in the debates?

Because I have lived so long and
seen so much, I am not easy to shock. But Huckabee has done so. As you know,
one of the main differences between him and the other man from Hope, Arkansas
–
I can’t recall his name; he is the husband
of Hillaroid – is the musical instrument they
play. The other man plays the sexaphone (sic); Huck plays the guitar. Indeed,
Huck plays guitar in a group called Capitol Offense. One of the numbers they
do is “Honky Tonk Women.”
Here are some of the lyrics:

I met a gin soaked, bar-room queen
in Memphis,
She tried to take me upstairs for a ride.
She had to heave me right across her shoulder
’Cause
I just can’t seem to drink you off my mind.

I laid a divorcee in New York City,
I had to put up some kind of a fight.
The lady then she covered me with roses,
She blew my nose and then she blew my mind.

So, what do we have here? We have a
man drinking to excess in a Memphis whore house to get a woman off his mind.
We have an alcoholic whore trying to turn a trick. Because he is mourning the
loss of the first woman, the whore has to drag him upstairs to a bedroom for
the purpose. Presumably, she could do so only because Friar Huck had already
lost those famous hundred pounds in preparation for his presidential race. No
normal woman, and certainly not a gin-soaked whore, could lift a thing the
size of Huckabee before.

The narrator thankfully survives the
night of abandon. The next stanza finds him in New York. He is still
lamenting the loss of the unnamed lady in Memphis, because in New York
another lady, a divorcee, has to struggle to bring Huck the Schmuck to her
bed. The lady blows his nose, which sounds disgusting and then blows his
mind. I shall say no more here because the verb “blows”
comes dangerously close to the area patented by the other man from Hope, the
one whose name I can’t remember.

Of course, “Honky
Tonk Women” is a Mick Jagger/Rolling Stones
song. To do it justice, Huckabee’s Capitol Offense presumably had to
practice, singing these words over and over again. Excuse me? Remember we are
not talking here about some difference in doctrine. We’re
not talking about different interpretations of Original Sin. We’re
talking about the personal behavior of a preacher, a minister of Christ. Will
Huck the Schmuck be performing “Honky Tonk Women”
in the Huckabee White House?

Capitol Offense appears to have a
penchant for professional hookers. Another number they do is “Devil
With the Blue Dress On.” Here are some of the lyrics: “She
walks real cool, catches everybody’s eye/She’s got such good lovin’ that they
can’t say goodbye.” There is also the immortal:

Good golly, Miss Molly
You sure like to ball
While you’re rockin’ and rollin’
Can’t you hear your mama call
From the early, early mornin’ ’til the early, early nights
See Miss Molly rockin’ at the House of Blue Lights

Notice that unlike every other
minister of Jesus I have heard of, Huck the Schmuck does not lament the fact
that these women are prostitutes and try to reform them. On the contrary,
Capitol Offense celebrates and applauds their prostitution. Huckabee apparently
will do anything to look “cool.”

Needless to say, the Prostitute
National Press has not said a word about this. Instead, they have tried
(unsuccessfully) to make something of the fact that Tucker Carlson booby
trapped Dr. Ron Paul into accepting a donation from a man he didn’t
know who runs a brothel in Nevada. By the way, Dr. No plays no instrument and
can’t carry a tune.


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But now here comes something even
worse. What? Worse? Yes! In 2004, at a dinner meeting of the Republican
Governors Association, Huckabee mounted the rostrum to deliver the opening
prayer. You would ask the only man present with a “theology
degree” to do that. As the schmuck got
started, the mobile phone in his pocket rang. And an “embarrassed”
Governor Huckabee took the call. Guess who it was.

It was God

That’s right; God took
time out from His manifold activities to call Friar Huck as he began his
remarks. Either that, or Huck was doing an impression of Bob Newhart, in
which case his impression was masterful; but I saw the video and can assure
you that was not what he was doing. He was using the “theology
degree” he now is lying about to drive home
the “fact” that, despite
the hymns to prostitution of Capitol Offense, he was the only governor the
Creator would call.

As brilliant as he was, Friar Huck
did miss one trick. He should have had God call collect. Then Huck could
magnanimously have accepted the charges. On the other hand, the charges from
Heaven to here are probably prohibitive, and everyone knows God has unlimited
funds insured by FDIC, so He probably would pay for such a call Himself. Here
are the main things the other governors – rotten, no-good sinners who
therefore don’t get calls from God –
heard Friar Huck say:

On the phone for me? How did he get
my number? . . . . Yes, God? Yes, sir, I’m right in the middle of the
president’s coming. . . . . You see, you say
you want–you need an autograph. Oh, for
Samson. . . . And, you know, God, this is a pretty big event. We’ve
got a lot of people and I’ve only got a very short time here.
Oh, you’ve got all the time in the world. I
understand. . . . Yes, sir, we know you don’t take sides in
the election. But, if you did, we kind of think you’d
hang in there with us, lord, we really do. . . .

The transcript says there was much
delighted laughter during all of this. At the end there was (CHEERING AND
APPLAUSE). When I heard about it, I gasped. When I saw the video I marveled.
Notice that Huckabee revoltingly trivializes God. He patronizes God, reducing
Him to a Straight Man in a comedy act. This is not the God I know, not the
Creator of everything that is, not the God who spoke the world into
existence. Am I wrong? Am I making more of this than it deserves? I don’t
think so, but please let me know.

More proof that Huck the Schmuck
thinks Christianity is a joke came after the people of Arizona enacted a law
(Proposition 200) that denies benefits to illegal aliens. The courts upheld
Prop 200 and a couple of Republican Senators in Arkansas proposed a similar
law there. The Arkansas law would have required proof of citizenship to vote.

But Huck denounced the proposal as
“race-baiting and demagoguery.” He said the bill “inflames
those who are racist and bigots and makes them think there’s a real problem.
But there’s not.” So, in Arkansas, Huck says illegal
aliens are not a problem, even when they vote. Now, running for President, he
says the reverse.

But here comes the kicker. Fellow
Republican Senator Jim Holt, one of the bill’s sponsors, is
also a Christian. Singling him out, Governor Schmuck said as follows: “I
drink a different kind of Jesus juice.” Again we see that, in Huckabee’s
lexicon, Jesus is a joke, a Straight Man in a comedy act, a dummy sitting on
Huckabee’s knee. The Schmuck will do or say
anything in his lust to be “cool.” But English
speakers will remember that “cool” means “not
so hot.”

When I saw the Huck and his Straight
Man go through his act, I wondered. Are there really any Americans dumb
enough to fall for this malarkey, dumb enough to give credence to a man who
makes Elmer Gantry look like John the Baptist? The answer is, yes, there are
millions of them. Many of those millions belong to what they call the
Religious Right.

This time around, despite everything
we now know, Friar Huck is their choice. So I have only one question for you.
Are you out of your minds? Dr. Ron Paul exemplifies to the max everything you
say you believe. Mike Huckabee makes Dr. No look like a glorified combination
of Washington, Jefferson and Henry. But you have rejected Dr. Paul in favor
of a blatant scumbag.

Over and over again, you have
betrayed yourselves. You did it with Bush. He ridicules you as suckers in
private; in public he says he is “born again.”
Apparently that is all a man need say to win your devotion. Because he is a
fraud, your country now is falling apart, soon to be merged out of existence
with Mexico and Canada. Your freedoms are gone.

Your
preachers are not preachers. They are motivational speakers, lusting for fame
and the buck. They are cowards, not Christians, not the Black Regiment that
led the War for Independence. If they tell you to vote for the rear end of a
horse, you will flock from the meeting halls to the polling places and do so,
like characters in George A. Romero’s classic, “Night
of the Living Dead.” Now you are getting ready to do it
again. And you will deserve everything you get when reality hits you in the
face.

© 2007 – Alan Stang – All Rights
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Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Rasmussen report on Huckster

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Rasmussen: ‘The Huckaboom
may have crested’
Pollster’s new results show
candidate tied in Iowa after double-digit lead



Posted:
December 20, 2007
12:07 p.m. Eastern

By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

With his support
receding in Iowa and South Carolina, former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee’s surge
to the top of the race for the Republican presidential nomination appears to
have hit its high point, pollster Scott Rasmussen told WND.

“The Huckaboom
may have crested,” said Rasmussen, president of Rasmussen Reports.

Yesterday, Rasmussen
released the results of a survey showing Huckabee falling back into a tie with Romney
in Iowa and South Carolina.

In Iowa, Huckabee had
a double-digit lead at the beginning of December. The Rasmussen poll yesterday
showed him at 28 percent, with Romney at 27 percent and McCain in third at 14
percent.

Rasmussen cautioned
that the cresting of the Huckaboom should be seen in context.

“If a month and
a half ago I had told you that Huckabee was tied for the lead in Iowa and South
Carolina, that would have been seen as great news for the then-long-shot Huckabee
campaign,” he said.

What happened?

“Huckabee built
some support in Iowa, and then there was a huge round of enthusiasm as he built
a double-digit lead in Iowa and a significant lead in South Carolina,”
Rasmussen explained.

“But as Huckabee
surged, the other candidates began to take Huckabee seriously,” he
continued. “Then Huckabee began receiving a significant amount of negative
campaigning in Iowa and South Carolina, and the negative campaigning is now
having an impact.”

Does the endorsement by Jim Gilchrist, the founder of the
Minuteman Project help or hurt Huckabee?

“I think it will
help,” he answered cautiously. “But I don’t think it’s
definitive.”

“What’s
happening right now is Mike Huckabee is going through a vetting process that
other candidates went through earlier in the year,” he explained.
“There is no one piece of information that is going to be
definitive.”

Rasmussen said a
defining demographic for Huckabee was his strong support among evangelical
Christians.

“Huckabee went
from 48 percent support among evangelicals in late November, which was huge, up
to 62 percent a couple of weeks later, which was unbelievable,” he said.
“Now it’s back to 49 percent.”

Rasmussen said
Huckabee “resonates with certain constituencies and important parts of the
population in Iowa, but there was another tier that was a little bit softer and
they are re-evaluating.”

The pollster said
Huckabee’s Christmas ad would have helped him nationally if not for the
controversy that arose when critics accused his campaign of using subliminal
messaging by making a bookcase in the background appear as a cross.

Rasmussen admitted
his polling does not have direct data on the ad. He suspects that while it may
have helped Huckabee strengthen his Iowa support, it is clearly having a
negative impact outside the state.

“The Huckaboom
has retreated from its peak,” Rasmussen said. “I live by the beach,
so I tend to think in terms of tides. The Huckabee tide has pulled back from
its high point, but we don’t know yet who is going to win Iowa.”

To put Huckabee’s
rise in perspective, Rasmussen compared it to how Fred Thompson entered the
race.

“Earlier this
year, Fred Thompson looked good to outsiders,” he said. “As Thompson
entered the campaign, his numbers went down dramatically.”

Rasmussen told WND
the phenomena of Huckabee and Thompson show there is a serious level of
searching for an alternative among Republican primary voters.

“The conditions
remain right for a candidate to rise up and grab a section of the
constituency,” he concluded, “because none of the Republican primary
contenders has done so as yet.”

 

Huckabee shameful record

Son’s deeds bite Huckabee

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/78241

Pulaski County Sheriff-AP

Dogged: An incident involving his son David could hurt
Huckabee

CAMPAIGN 2008

A Son’s Past Deeds Come Back To Bite Huckabee

By Michael Isikoff and Holly
Bailey | NEWSWEEK

Dec 24, 2007 Issue | Updated: 2:51  p.m. ET
Dec 15, 2007

 

 

 

As Mike Huckabee
gains in the polls, the former Arkansas governor is finding that
his record in office is getting more scrutiny. One issue likely to get
attention is his handling of a sensitive family matter: allegations that one of
his sons was involved in the hanging of a stray dog at a Boy Scout camp in 1998. The incident led to the dismissal of David Huckabee, then 17, from his job as a
counselor at Camp Pioneer in Hatfield, Ark. It also
prompted the local prosecuting attorney— bombarded with complaints generated by
a national animal-rights group—to
write a letter to the Arkansas state police seeking help investigating whether
David and another teenager had violated state animal-cruelty laws. The state
police never granted the request, and no charges were ever filed. But John Bailey, then the director of
Arkansas’s state police, tells NEWSWEEK that Governor Huckabee’s chief of staff
and personal lawyer both leaned on him to write a letter officially denying the
local prosecutor’s request. Bailey, a career officer who had been appointed
chief by Huckabee’s Democratic predecessor, said he viewed the lawyer’s
intervention as improper and terminated the conversation. Seven months later,
he was called into Huckabee’s office and fired. “I’ve lost confidence in
your ability to do your job,” Bailey says Huckabee told him. One reason
Huckabee cited was “I couldn’t get you to help me with my son when I had
that problem,” according to Bailey. “Without question, [Huckabee] was
making a conscious attempt to keep the state police from investigating his
son,” says I. C. Smith, the former FBI chief in Little
Rock, who worked closely with Bailey and called him a
“courageous” and “very solid” professional.

Huckabee called Bailey’s account “totally untrue”
and described him as a “bitter” exemployee. “I asked him to resign
because he had so alienated the entire state police,” he said. “It
had nothing to do with my son.” Brenda Turner, Huckabee’s then chief of
staff, and Kevin Crass, the Huckabee family lawyer, also disputed Bailey’s
account, although both acknowledged talking to him about the dog killing.
“I asked him, ‘Is it normal for the state police to … investigate
something that happened at a Boy Scout camp?’ ” Turner says. “We
wanted the same treatment that anybody else would get.” (Animal cruelty in
Arkansas is a misdemeanor, not a felony.)

The details of the incident remain murky. The Animal Legal
Defense Fund got an anonymous fax that summer alleging that David Huckabee and
another youth had been involved in the hanging of a stray dog at the camp on
July 11. A local animal-rights activist, Joyce Hillard, later contacted the
camp director. Notes of Hillard’s report to the defense fund read, “Boys
confessed & were fired. Dir. is making excuses, saying dog was sic &
boys were putting him out of his misery.” (The director told NEWSWEEK only
that a stray dog was “put down” and that the counselors were fired
for violating the Scout credo to be “kind.”) The father of the other
counselor was quoted by the Arkansas Democrat Gazette in August 1998 as saying
that his son found the dog “hung over a limb and choking.” David
Huckabee did not respond to requests for comment. (In April of this year, he
was arrested—and paid a fine—when he forgot to remove a loaded gun from his
carry-on luggage at Little Rock airport.) His
father told NEWSWEEK that his son did not engage in “intentional
torture.” “There was a dog that apparently had mange and was
absolutely, I guess, emaciated.” A campaign official says David
“regrets” the incident and notes that he later made Eagle Scout.






Huckabee lies on scholarships for illegals, Huckabee shameful record

Huckabee’s Fact Twisting

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Huckabee’s
fact-twisting



Posted: December 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In the Nov. 28 YouTube debate on
CNN, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee misrepresented the
historical record when asked if he had supported as Arkansas governor a program
for granting in-state college tuition scholarships for illegal aliens.

A YouTube viewer asked Huckabee a question that began,
“Governor Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, you gave illegal aliens a
discount for college in Arkansas by allowing them to pay lower in-state tuition
rates.”

In Huckabee’s answer, I have
identified five specific, easily documented misrepresentations of historical
facts.

Huckabee began his response by
telling the questioner, “Ashley, first of all, let me just express that
you are a little misinformed. We never passed a bill that gave special
privileges to the children of illegals to go to college.”

In the next paragraph, Huckabee
misrepresented the program the first time, identified here by italics.

First, he claimed he supported a
bill “that would’ve allowed those children who had been in our schools
their entire school life the opportunity to have the same scholarship that
their peers had, who had also gone to high school with them and sat in the same
classrooms.”

The bill in question was the Access to Postsecondary Education Act of 2005,
also known as HB 1525.

Section 1(b) of HB1525 offered
state-supported tuition scholarships to illegal immigrants who attended only
three years of high school in Arkansas, provided they graduated from an
Arkansas high school or received a General Education Development diploma in the
state, and were admitted at an Arkansas institution of higher education.

None of the provisions of the bill
require the illegal immigrants to have attended Arkansas elementary or high
schools for “their entire life,” as Huckabee represented in the
debate.

The next paragraph of Huckabee’s
YouTube debate answer contained the second misrepresentation of facts, once
again emphasized here with italics.

“They couldn’t just move in
during their senior year and go to college,” Huckabee continued. “It
wasn’t about out-of-state tuition. It was an academic meritorious
scholarship called the Academic Challenge Scholarship.”

The Arkansas Challenge Program,
codified at Ark. Code Ann. Section 6-82-1001-1006 (Supp. 1991), is a totally
separate law from HB 1525.

The Arkansas Challenge Program was
enacted in 1991, becoming law more than four years before Huckabee began his
first term as Arkansas governor in 1996.

Huckabee had nothing to do with the
passage of the Arkansas Challenge Program, a law based on being an Arkansas
resident that makes no mention of illegal immigrants.

Evidently, Huckabee sought to
deflect attention about HB 1525 by referring to the Challenge Program, an act
that was meritorious in nature.

HB 1525 made no special exemptions
for illegal aliens who merited tuition preferences because of their exemplary
academic performance.

In the next paragraph of his CNN
debate answer, Huckabee tells the truth, noting that HB 1525 passed the
Arkansas House, but failed to become law after the bill failed to pass the
Arkansas Senate.

Huckabee, however, neglected to
reference his State of the State Address, also archived
on YouTube, in which he endorsed HB 1525, again on the false
premises that the bill applied to illegal immigrants who had attended Arkansas
schools for “their entire career as a student.”

If we skip a paragraph of Huckabee’s
response in the debate, we come to Huckabee’s third misrepresentation, in which
he identified a set of qualifications not mentioned in HB1525 that Huckabee
claimed an illegal immigrant would have to meet under the bill to qualify for
in-state college tuition scholarships.

The paragraph also contains the
fourth misrepresentation, where Huckabee specified to be eligible an illegal
alien would have to apply for citizenship.

Huckabee told the CNN debate
audience, “I said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re
5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d completed the
curriculum, you were an exceptional student, and you also had to be drug and
alcohol-free – and the other provision, you had to be applying for
citizenship.”

Obviously, Huckabee realized these
invented qualifications would make his support of in-state college tuition
scholarships for illegal immigrants appear to be more politically acceptable to
opponents of illegal immigration.

The problem is none of these
qualifications were specified in HB 1525, the only relevant bill here that
Huckabee actually supported.

HB 1525 was not a merit bill.

Section 1(d) of HB 1525 merely
required an illegal alien, to be eligible for an in-state college tuition
scholarship, had to file an affidavit with the state-sponsored institution of
higher education stating that the student had intent to legalize his or her
immigration status.

Contrary to what Huckabee said,
HB1525 required no proof a student had obtained legal status or even had
applied to obtain legal status.

HB 1525 did not require proof of
legal status.

Huckabee’s fifth misrepresentation
came when he told the CNN debate audience, “We wanted people to be taxpayers,
not tax-takers. And that’s what that provision did.”

HB 1525 had no work requirement
provisions specifying an illegal immigrant who qualified for an in-state
college tuition scholarship had to work in Arkansas, or anywhere else, while he
or she was a college student or afterwards.

HB 1525 had no work requirements
specified.

What this analysis suggests is
Huckabee appears to have a facility to re-invent the past when questioned
closely about a past action or statement, here his support of HB 1525.

Huckabee answers by shifting ground,
mixing HB 1525 with a merit law passed before Huckabee was governor that was
never designed for illegal immigrants.

Moreover, Huckabee mischaracterizes
the true conditions of HB 1525 with a series of invented requirements, none of
which had any factual basis in the actual language of the bill.

Huckabee’s point appears to be to
engage misdirection by falsehoods designed to elicit our sympathies.

The candidate’s convenient rewriting
of history sets the stage for him to argue before a national television
audience, “This bill would’ve said that if you came here, not because you
made the choice, but because your parents did, that we’re not going to punish a
child because the parent committed a crime.”

Unfortunately, we have come to
expect our politicians to lie.

Still, when re-inventing the past
becomes a ready facility of a candidate never before scrutinized at the
presidential level, the charge becomes particularly important.

How can we allow a man who
represents himself to Christian conservatives as a Baptist preacher to run for
president on a self-styled myth of his political history?

If Huckabee feels no personal
responsibility to recall his political history accurately, we as an electorate
must be doubly vigilant, determined to make sure no Huckabee slip goes by
unnoticed.

This is especially critical when we
realize the YouTube questioner had not asked Huckabee to justify his position
supporting preferential in-state tuition colleges for illegal immigrants as
such, but to explain why Huckabee had neglected to argue the provisions of HB
1525 should apply to the children of U.S. military as well.

Huckabee got to this, but only at
the end, when he claimed, “And that’s why I proposed a veterans bill of
rights that, if anything, would give our veterans the most exceptional
privileges of all, because they are the ones who have earned all of our freedom
– every single one of them.”

Remarkably, even though Huckabee
exceeded his allotted time, he still failed to answer the question, never
explaining why he supported HB 1525 for illegal immigrants only, and not for
the children of U.S. military as well.

Note: The question and answer exchange
during the YouTube/CNN debate can
be seen online.

 

Huckabee’s
fact-twisting



Posted: December 19, 2007
1:00 a.m. Eastern

In the Nov. 28 YouTube debate on
CNN, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee misrepresented the
historical record when asked if he had supported as Arkansas governor a program
for granting in-state college tuition scholarships for illegal aliens.

A YouTube viewer asked Huckabee a question that began,
“Governor Huckabee, while governor of Arkansas, you gave illegal aliens a
discount for college in Arkansas by allowing them to pay lower in-state tuition
rates.”

In Huckabee’s answer, I have
identified five specific, easily documented misrepresentations of historical
facts.

Huckabee began his response by
telling the questioner, “Ashley, first of all, let me just express that
you are a little misinformed. We never passed a bill that gave special
privileges to the children of illegals to go to college.”

In the next paragraph, Huckabee
misrepresented the program the first time, identified here by italics.

First, he claimed he supported a
bill “that would’ve allowed those children who had been in our schools
their entire school life the opportunity to have the same scholarship that
their peers had, who had also gone to high school with them and sat in the same
classrooms.”

The bill in question was the Access to Postsecondary Education Act of 2005,
also known as HB 1525.

Section 1(b) of HB1525 offered
state-supported tuition scholarships to illegal immigrants who attended only
three years of high school in Arkansas, provided they graduated from an
Arkansas high school or received a General Education Development diploma in the
state, and were admitted at an Arkansas institution of higher education.

None of the provisions of the bill
require the illegal immigrants to have attended Arkansas elementary or high
schools for “their entire life,” as Huckabee represented in the
debate.

The next paragraph of Huckabee’s
YouTube debate answer contained the second misrepresentation of facts, once
again emphasized here with italics.

“They couldn’t just move in
during their senior year and go to college,” Huckabee continued. “It
wasn’t about out-of-state tuition. It was an academic meritorious
scholarship called the Academic Challenge Scholarship.”

The Arkansas Challenge Program,
codified at Ark. Code Ann. Section 6-82-1001-1006 (Supp. 1991), is a totally
separate law from HB 1525.

The Arkansas Challenge Program was
enacted in 1991, becoming law more than four years before Huckabee began his
first term as Arkansas governor in 1996.

Huckabee had nothing to do with the
passage of the Arkansas Challenge Program, a law based on being an Arkansas
resident that makes no mention of illegal immigrants.

Evidently, Huckabee sought to
deflect attention about HB 1525 by referring to the Challenge Program, an act
that was meritorious in nature.

HB 1525 made no special exemptions
for illegal aliens who merited tuition preferences because of their exemplary
academic performance.

In the next paragraph of his CNN
debate answer, Huckabee tells the truth, noting that HB 1525 passed the
Arkansas House, but failed to become law after the bill failed to pass the
Arkansas Senate.

Huckabee, however, neglected to
reference his State of the State Address, also archived
on YouTube, in which he endorsed HB 1525, again on the false
premises that the bill applied to illegal immigrants who had attended Arkansas
schools for “their entire career as a student.”

If we skip a paragraph of Huckabee’s
response in the debate, we come to Huckabee’s third misrepresentation, in which
he identified a set of qualifications not mentioned in HB1525 that Huckabee
claimed an illegal immigrant would have to meet under the bill to qualify for
in-state college tuition scholarships.

The paragraph also contains the
fourth misrepresentation, where Huckabee specified to be eligible an illegal
alien would have to apply for citizenship.

Huckabee told the CNN debate
audience, “I said that if you’d sat in our schools from the time you’re
5 or 6 years old and you had become an A-plus student, you’d completed the
curriculum, you were an exceptional student, and you also had to be drug and
alcohol-free – and the other provision, you had to be applying for
citizenship.”

Obviously, Huckabee realized these
invented qualifications would make his support of in-state college tuition
scholarships for illegal immigrants appear to be more politically acceptable to
opponents of illegal immigration.

The problem is none of these
qualifications were specified in HB 1525, the only relevant bill here that
Huckabee actually supported.

HB 1525 was not a merit bill.

Section 1(d) of HB 1525 merely
required an illegal alien, to be eligible for an in-state college tuition
scholarship, had to file an affidavit with the state-sponsored institution of
higher education stating that the student had intent to legalize his or her
immigration status.

Contrary to what Huckabee said,
HB1525 required no proof a student had obtained legal status or even had
applied to obtain legal status.

HB 1525 did not require proof of
legal status.

Huckabee’s fifth misrepresentation
came when he told the CNN debate audience, “We wanted people to be taxpayers,
not tax-takers. And that’s what that provision did.”

HB 1525 had no work requirement
provisions specifying an illegal immigrant who qualified for an in-state
college tuition scholarship had to work in Arkansas, or anywhere else, while he
or she was a college student or afterwards.

HB 1525 had no work requirements
specified.

What this analysis suggests is
Huckabee appears to have a facility to re-invent the past when questioned
closely about a past action or statement, here his support of HB 1525.

Huckabee answers by shifting ground,
mixing HB 1525 with a merit law passed before Huckabee was governor that was
never designed for illegal immigrants.

Moreover, Huckabee mischaracterizes
the true conditions of HB 1525 with a series of invented requirements, none of
which had any factual basis in the actual language of the bill.

Huckabee’s point appears to be to
engage misdirection by falsehoods designed to elicit our sympathies.

The candidate’s convenient rewriting
of history sets the stage for him to argue before a national television
audience, “This bill would’ve said that if you came here, not because you
made the choice, but because your parents did, that we’re not going to punish a
child because the parent committed a crime.”

Unfortunately, we have come to
expect our politicians to lie.

Still, when re-inventing the past
becomes a ready facility of a candidate never before scrutinized at the
presidential level, the charge becomes particularly important.

How can we allow a man who
represents himself to Christian conservatives as a Baptist preacher to run for
president on a self-styled myth of his political history?

If Huckabee feels no personal
responsibility to recall his political history accurately, we as an electorate
must be doubly vigilant, determined to make sure no Huckabee slip goes by
unnoticed.

This is especially critical when we
realize the YouTube questioner had not asked Huckabee to justify his position
supporting preferential in-state tuition colleges for illegal immigrants as
such, but to explain why Huckabee had neglected to argue the provisions of HB
1525 should apply to the children of U.S. military as well.

Huckabee got to this, but only at
the end, when he claimed, “And that’s why I proposed a veterans bill of
rights that, if anything, would give our veterans the most exceptional
privileges of all, because they are the ones who have earned all of our freedom
– every single one of them.”

Remarkably, even though Huckabee
exceeded his allotted time, he still failed to answer the question, never
explaining why he supported HB 1525 for illegal immigrants only, and not for
the children of U.S. military as well.

Note: The question and answer exchange
during the YouTube/CNN debate can
be seen online.

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Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates, Ron Paul

Huckabee/Globalist greed vs. Ron Paul/Constitutionalist/individualist

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WHO ARE THESE KOOKS?

 

 

By
Pastor Chuck Baldwin

December
18, 2007

NewsWithViews.com

According to the Associated Press,
“Republican presidential hopeful Ron Paul’s supporters raised over $6
million Sunday to boost the 10-term congressman’s campaign for the White
House.”

The AP report also said,
“The [Paul] campaign’s previous fundraiser brought in $4.2 million.”

According to the Paul campaign
website, “In a 24-hour period on December 16, the campaign raised $6.026
million dollars, surpassing the one-day record of $5.7 million held by John
Kerry.

“During the day, over
58,000 people contributed to Dr. Paul’s campaign, including 24,940 first-time
donors. Over 118,000 Americans have donated to the campaign in the fourth
quarter.

“The $6 million one-day
total means the campaign has raised over $18 million this quarter, far
exceeding its goal of $12 million.”

Now, if one listens to most of
the political pundits in the major media, Ron Paul is some kind of
“kook,” and his supporters are also a bunch of “kooks.” So,
the question must be asked, Just who are these kooks that are supporting him,
and where did they get all this money?

First, let’s take a look at this
“kook” who is receiving all this money. Ron Paul was born the third
son of Howard and Margaret Paul, and was brought up with a work ethic in which
one worked six days a week and went to church on Sunday. His first job was at
age 5 helping his uncle wash bottles. He worked all the way through his youth
mowing lawns, delivering newspapers, working in a drug store, delivering
furniture and laundry, etc.

In high school, Ron was a track
star, winning state as a junior in the 220-yard dash and running 2nd in the
440. His time in the 100-yard dash was 9.8. That’s pretty good. I was never
able to break 10-flat in the 100. Although, I bet I could have beaten him in
the 50-yard dash. He also wrestled in high school. Coincidentally, so did I.
But here Ron leaves me: he was president of the student council and an honor
student. I never accomplished that. I was just glad to get promoted to the next
grade. Even as a senior statesman, Ron Paul keeps himself in terrific shape.
Have you seen him lately? He still maintains a rigorous exercise regimen.

Ron’s two brothers are both
ministers, and he became a medical doctor. He graduated from Duke University
School of Medicine. When the Cuban Missile Crisis arose, Ron became a flight
surgeon in the U.S. Air Force. He also served in the Air National Guard.

As an OB/GYN physician, Dr. Paul
has delivered more than 4,000 babies, and he and his wife, Carol, have been
married for more than 50 years. They have 5 children, 18 grandchildren and 1
great-grandchild. Ron Paul is currently in his 10th term as a Congressman from
Texas.

As a congressman, Ron Paul has
never taken a government-paid junket. He is not accepting a government pension.
He returns a portion of his office budget every year to the taxpayers. As a
member of Congress, he has never voted a raise for himself. Do you know any
other member of Congress that can make such a claim? Of course you don’t,
because Ron Paul is truly one-of-a-kind.

Former President Ronald Reagan
said this about Ron Paul, “Ron Paul is one of the outstanding leaders
fighting for a stronger national defense. As a former Air Force officer, he
knows well the needs of our armed forces, and he always puts them first. We
need to keep him fighting for our country.”

Perhaps this helps explain why
many of the “kooks” supporting Ron Paul are active-duty military
personnel. In fact, Ron Paul has received more campaign contributions from
active-duty military personnel than any other Presidential candidate from
either party.

But who are the other
“kooks” supporting Ron Paul? What kind of people give more than $18
million in a quarter-year to a Presidential candidate that is almost
universally ignored by the mainstream press? What kind of people give record
contributions to a Presidential candidate that is lampooned by his fellow
Republican presidential contenders?

For example, Mike Huckabee
recently said he could support any of the other Republican Presidential
contenders (including Rudy Giuliani), except Ron Paul. That means, Mike
Huckabee would rather support a pro-abortion, pro-gay marriage, pro-gun control
liberal such as Giuliani than support the pro-life, pro-traditional marriage,
pro-Second Amendment candidacy of Ron Paul. Why is that?

Furthermore, why are the entire
major media and establishment Republican machine either ignoring or lampooning
a distinguished Air Force veteran, medical doctor, and ten-term Congressman?
What is it about Ron Paul that the elite are so afraid of?
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Here is something else: while
Ron Paul’s contributions have exploded, Mike Huckabee is all but broke! How can
that be? How can a political “front-runner” be out of money, while a
man who “doesn’t have a chance” is breaking fundraising records?

So, who are these
“kooks” who are sending Ron Paul so much money? And just why are they
sending him so much money? I will tell you who they are, because I am one of
them. They are rank-and-file, tax-paying citizens who are sick and tired of
out-of-control federal spending and deficits. They have had it with an arrogant
federal government that runs roughshod over both the Constitution and the
liberties of the American people. They are people who have had enough of the
IRS, the BATFE, and a thousand other federal agencies that have “erected a
multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of Officers to harass our
people, and eat out their substance.” (Declaration of Independence)

They are people who see through
the phony, disingenuous federal politicians who only want to fleece the
American citizenry for the purpose of building their own personal fortunes.
They have had it with the Military-Industrial complex that desires to build
international empires at the expense of the blood and sacrifice of the American
people. They have had it with David Rockefeller and his Council on Foreign
Relations. They have had it with the arrogance of George W. Bush and Nancy
Pelosi.

They are sick and tired of
paying outlandish taxes for a public education system that produces high school
graduates who cannot read and write. They are sick and tired of working for 30
years to pay off a mortgage, only then to be forced to pay extortion money
(a.k.a. property taxes) for the rest of their lives to the feudal state. They
are sick and tired of the government telling them what they can and cannot do
with their own property. They are sick and tired of watching people with food
stamps buy T-bone steaks and expensive Nike tennis shoes while they are forced
to buy fatty hamburger and cheap sneakers.

They are sick and tired of
watching their manufacturing jobs go to China and India. They have had it with
money-hungry businessmen who hire illegal Mexicans at slave labor wages. They
have had it with labor unions promoting politicians who support NAFTA, CAFTA,
and the FTAA. They are sick and tired of being bled dry at the gas pump.

They have had it with this phony
“war on terrorism” that sends trillions of dollars to nations
throughout the Middle East, but refuses to close our own borders to illegal
immigration. They have had it with the “war on drugs” and the
“war on terror” being used as excuses to trample people’s freedoms.
They have it with Vicente Fox and Felipe Calderon. They have had it with Bush’s
North American Union. They have had it with Joel Osteen and Rick Warren. In
short, they have just had it!

They also know that a vote for
any other Presidential candidate is a vote for more of the same. Democrat or
Republican: it is more of the same. Ron Paul, and Ron Paul alone, will bring a
revolution of freedom and independence to America. Believe me, the Ron Paul
revolution is bigger than Ron Paul. This is the beginning of a movement.

No matter what ultimately
happens to Ron Paul’s candidacy, the fight to return America to its roots of
freedom and independence has started. The fire is lit. There is no putting it
out. There will be other Ron Pauls, other campaigns, other spokesmen, other
fundraising. The people supporting Ron Paul will not be silenced; they will not
be ignored; they will not be intimidated. In truth, Ron Paul’s campaign may
just be the beginning of the end of the elitist, globalist, stranglehold over
America.

As one who is also fed up with
the globalist goons that dominate the two major parties, I join the Ron Paul
revolution and vow to fight for the rest of my life for the freedom and
independence of these United States. This means I will never again support a
business-as-usual, millionaires-club, globalist toady from either party ever
again! I will only support candidates who are fully committed to restoring
constitutional government. If that makes me a kook, so be it.

© 2007 Chuck Baldwin – All
Rights Reserved

 

Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Hucksters theology degree? Now says ain’t necessarily so

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Huckabee’s
theology degree? Now says ain’t necessarily so
Campaign admits candidate doesn’t have claimed religious credential


Posted: December 14, 2007
7:20 p.m. Eastern

© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee
Republican
presidential candidate Mike Huckabee told the Christian Broadcasting Network he
had a theology
degree, he told voters in Iowa he had a theology degree, he repeated the claim
in last month’s CNN YouTube debate … but, his campaign now says, it was not
true.
Huckabee’s claim began unraveling following his offhanded comment about
Mormonism in a New York Times interview last weekend.
Reporter Zev Chafets wrote: “I asked Huckabee, who describes himself as
the only Republican candidate with a degree in theology, if he considered
Mormonism a cult or a religion. ‘I think it’s a religion,’ he said. ‘I really
don’t know much about it.’
“I was about to jot down this piece of boilerplate when Huckabee surprised
me with a question of his own: ‘Don’t Mormons,’ he asked in an innocent voice,
‘believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?'”
In the interview, Huckabee’s account of his education made no mention of his
having earned a theology degree.
Chafets wrote: “If young Mike Huckabee was ever rebellious or difficult,
there’s no record of it. He preached his first sermon as a teenager, married
his high-school sweetheart and went off to Ouachita
Baptist University in Arkadelphia. There he majored in speech and
communications, worked at a radio station and earned his B.A. in a little more
than two years. He spent a year at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in
Fort Worth, Tex., before dropping out to work for the televangelist James
Robison, who bought him his first decent wardrobe and showed him how to use
television.”
While Huckabee apologized personally to fellow candidate and Mormon Mitt Romney
for his remarks, Chafets’ characterization of the former Arkansas governor and
ordained Baptist pastor as a seminary dropout who did not seem well-versed in
comparative religion, drew the attention of political bloggers.
National
Review’s Jim Geraghty cited Huckabee’s claimed theology degree
when criticizing the candidate for telling CNN’s Wolf Blitzer he had been
trying to avoid talking about the subject with Chafets but the reporter was
“comparably well-schooled on comparative religions.”
“I’m going to call horsepuckey on Huckabee’s claim that a New York Times
reporter knew more about comparative religions than [a] guy with a theology
degree,” Geraghty wrote.
That prompted Joe Carter, Huckabee’s research director, to respond
to Geraghty by e-mail.

Jim,

Governor Huckabee doesn’t have a
theology degree. He only spent a year in seminary.

Also, it’s not surprising that he
doesn’t know much about the specific beliefs of the LDS church. There aren’t a
lot of LDS members in Arkansas; they comprise just .007 percent [sic] of the
population (about 20,000 out of 2,810,872 people). Most Southern evangelicals
don’t have much exposure to that particular religion. Even in seminary you’re
not likely to study the LDS faith unless you take a class on apologetics.

Joe

Carter
made a math error – 0.7 percent of Arkansas’ residents are members of the
Church of Jesus Christ Latter Day Saints.
Today, following a news conference announcing that former Reagan confidante, Ed
Rollins, has become Huckabee’s national campaign manager, the candidate was
asked about a PowerlineBlog
story that he did not have the theology degree he had claimed.
“I have a Bachelor
of Arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate
work,” Huckabee answered. “And then I have 46 hours on a master’s
degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological
degree is at the college
level and then 46 hours toward a masters – three years of study
of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in seminary was
theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion.”
Speaking in Iowa in October, Huckabee
told a sympathetic crowd, “Anytime you have been a person who was
identified as a pastor and you’ve got a seminary education
and theology degree, people tend to worry about you.”
In November, while appearing on the Christian
Broadcasting Network, Huckabee said, “People look at my record and say
that I’m as strong on immigration, strong on terror as anybody. In fact I think
I’m stronger than most people because I truly understand the nature of the war
that we are in with Islamofascism. 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. I think I understand it really
well. And know the threat of it is absolutely overwhelming to us.”
Last month, during the CNN
YouTube debate, Huckabee responded to a question to the candidates about
their belief in the Bible: “Sure. I believe the Bible is exactly what it
is. It’s the word of revelation to us from God himself. … And as the only
person here on the stage with a theology degree, there are parts of it I don’t
fully comprehend and understand, because the Bible is a revelation of an
infinite god, and no finite person is ever going to fully understand it. If
they do, their god is too small.”

God Bless Am er ic a!





Huckabee shameful record, Presidential Candidates

Huckabee loves gifts & illegals

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Huckabee Tries to Gloss Over Ark. Record

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Nov
28, 3:12 AM (ET)

By
ANDREW DeMILLO

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Mike Huckabee’s presidential rivals are
pointing to chinks in his record as Arkansas’ governor – from ethics complaints
to tax increases to illegal immigration and his support for releasing a rapist
who was later convicted of killing a Missouri woman.

The Republican presidential candidate has plenty to champion from
his 10 1/2 years as governor – including school improvements and health
insurance for the children of the working poor. But his record has rough edges,
and Huckabee has a habit of playing fast and loose with it.

Other campaigns for the GOP nomination, watching Huckabee’s rise
in polls in Iowa, are starting to mine his past for political fodder. Take
ethics, for example.

“People are starting to contact us and they’re saying we want
everything on Mike Huckabee,” says Graham Sloan, director of the state’s
Ethics Commission.

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What they’ll find is 436 pages of documents chronicling Huckabee’s
various tangles with a commission he’s derided as a political tool of Democrats.
It’s a panel that has held proceedings 20 times on the former governor and
lieutenant governor.

But the Ethics Commission files don’t cover everything, and this
year – anticipating criticism – Huckabee’s campaign set up a “truth
squad” to push his side of various stories. It often offers, at best, an
incomplete account of his record.

On major issues:

_The truth squad says the only finding by the Arkansas Ethics
Commission that Huckabee accepted a gift improperly was tossed out by a state
court. In fact, the panel investigated 16 complaints against Huckabee and found
five violations. Only one, for accepting a $500 canoe from Coca-Cola, was
tossed out.

Two of the complaints against Huckabee pertain to unreported gifts
– the canoe and a $200 stadium blanket received by his wife, Janet. Two stem
from cash the governor or his wife received but did not initially report. The
panel also ruled in 2003 that Huckabee’s campaign violated state law when it
used its funds to pay for an event during the summer of 2002 called Gospel Fest

During his tenure, Huckabee accepted 314 gifts valued overall at
more than $150,000, according to documents filed with the Arkansas secretary of
state’s office. (He accepted 187 gifts in his first three years as governor but
was not required to report their value.)

_Huckabee has consistently understated his role in the parole of
rapist Wayne DuMond, who had been convicted in the 1984 rape of a distant
cousin of former President Clinton.

Two months after taking office, Huckabee stunned the state by
saying he questioned DuMond’s guilt and that it was his intention to free the
rapist, who had been castrated by masked men while awaiting trial. Huckabee
said then he had “serious questions as to the legitimacy of his
guilt” and acknowledged later that he had met with DuMond’s wife about the
case while he was lieutenant governor. Two months after ascending to the
governor’s office, Huckabee met with the woman again.

The ex-governor now blames his predecessor for making DuMond
parole eligible – Jim Guy Tucker commuted a life-plus-20 years sentence to 39
1/2 years – but distances himself from his role in DuMond’s release. Huckabee
met privately with the state parole board, and two members have said he
pressured them for a vote.

“He made it obvious that he thought DuMond had gotten a raw
deal and wanted us to take another look at it,” former board member
Charles Chastain said in 2001. “Some board members who were usually very
tough about letting people out … (later) voted in favor of him, and seemed
eager to.”

On his campaign Web site, Huckabee says the parole board was made
up entirely of Democrats appointed by Clinton and Tucker. It doesn’t mention
that Huckabee reappointed board member Railey Steele days before he voted with
three other members to set DuMond free. DuMond was later convicted of killing a
woman in Missouri and died in 2005.

_Huckabee likes to say he was tough on taxes in Arkansas, noting a
$100 million tax cut in 1997 that until this year was Arkansas’ largest. When
asked about a fuel tax increase he backed in 1999, Huckabee says incorrectly
that he joined 80 percent of Arkansas voters in approving it.

Huckabee in 1999 supported a $1 billion highway bond program,
including costs for interest and lawyers’ fees, but the question on the ballot
was only whether the state could take on the debt, not how Arkansas would pay
for it. Huckabee had signed the fuel tax increase two months earlier.

Shortly after taking office, Huckabee took a four-day trip by bass
boat along the Arkansas River to tout a 1/8th-cent sales tax increase for
outdoor programs. (Two nature centers now carry the names of Huckabee and his
wife.) Taxes went up $40 million in the months before the $100 million tax cut
Huckabee touts.

Other taxes went up as Arkansas changed its property tax system
and made improvements to its school system.

_Huckabee’s recent strong stand on immigration, including an
intolerance toward companies that employ illegal immigrants, runs counter to
the image he crafted in his final years in office. He was battling
conservatives within his own party who were pushing for stricter state-level
immigration measures.

Huckabee opposed a Republican lawmaker’s efforts in 2005 to
require proof of legal status when applying for state services that aren’t
federally mandated and proof of citizenship when registering to vote. Huckabee
derided the bill as un-American and un-Christian and said the bill’s sponsor
drank a different “Jesus juice.”

That same year, Huckabee failed in his effort to make children of
illegal immigrants eligible for state-funded scholarships and in-state tuition
to Arkansas colleges. At the time, Huckabee said he didn’t understand the
opposition to it.

“It hurts me on a personal as well as a policy level to think
that we are still debating issues that I kind of hoped we had put aside in the
1960s, maybe at the latest the ’70s, and yet I understand people have deep
passions about things usually they don’t fully understand,” Huckabee said.




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Hucks’ crush of illegal record & use of tax money to fund Mex. Consulate

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Dec
14, 7:22 PM EST Suit: Huckabee used funds to
crush hard drives, win consulate

By JON GAMBRELL
Associated Press Writer


 

 

LITTLE
ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An amended lawsuit against Republican presidential hopeful
Mike Huckabee claims he illegally used government funds to crush state computer
hard drives and aid the Mexican government to locate a consulate in Arkansas’
capital city.

The suit against the former governor, refiled Friday in
Pulaski County Circuit Court, comes as part of a Freedom of Information Act
complaint by Bella Vista resident Jim Parsons stemming from Huckabee’s last
days in office. However, lawyers for Huckabee have said Parsons’ lawsuit
violates the qualified immunity public servants are granted in the state’s
constitution.

Huckabee used money from the Gov.’s Emergency Fund for a
series of purchases before leaving office, including giving $10,000 to the
city of Little Rock as it tried to bring a consulate there. Huckabee traveled
to Mexico in 2003 and has said hosting a consulate serving the mid-South from
Arkansas would be an economic boon.

The last $13,000 of the fund went toward destroying hard
drives used by the governor’s office at the state Capitol, the Gov.’s Mansion
in Little Rock, Huckabee’s Washington office and the hangar for the state
police airplane on which the governor traveled.

“Mike Huckabee treated the emergency appropriations
not as an appropriation for emergencies … but rather as a ‘slush fund’ of
sorts, which he could use upon his whims for political purposes,” the
suit alleges.

The lawsuit asks Huckabee to repay the spending with his
own money, as well as provide the state backup tapes that held some of the
files destroyed along with the hard drives. It also named current Gov. Mike
Beebe, asking him to turn over records from the backup tapes.

Huckabee, now a GOP front-runner in Iowa and South
Carolina, has defended destroying the hard drives, saying the discs contained
employees’ or constituents’ Social Security numbers and credit card
information.

Parsons, a self-described political gadfly, has filed
other ethics complaints against Arkansas politicians. The state Ethics
Commission previously dismissed two complaints that Parsons filed against
Huckabee over the hard drives’ destruction.

Parsons said the timing of this complaint, about two and
a half weeks before the Iowa caucuses, had nothing to do with politics.

“I’m not so politically one party or the
other,” Parsons said. “I just go after what’s right and what’s
wrong.”

Parsons’ new attorney in the case, Oscar Stilley of Fort
Smith, also is known as a gadfly for his anti-tax lawsuits and initiative
attempts. However, a panel of the state Supreme Court+ Committee on
Professional Conduct decided Friday that Stilley committed “serious
misconduct” in other incidents and issued an order to begin disbarment
proceedings.

Parsons said he didn’t know about Stilley’s hearing.

“I don’t know how that will come out or anything
about his case,” Parsons said.

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