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"I don't think schools ought to indoctrinate kids to believe one thing or another"
- M. Huckabee 4Dec2007 (per his calendar)

i'm certainly hip to his point, but that seems a damn sloppy way to make it.

i wonder if he was misquoted?

Maybe Max should get Ernie Dumas to ghost-write his next anti-Huckabee missive.

Here's what Bill Maher had to say about it when Huckabee tried that "what difference does my belief make" line back in August.

Why shouldn't it be part of a political discussion? If someone believes that the earth is 6000 years old, when every scientist in the world tells us it's billions of years old, why shouldn't I take that into account when I'm assessing the rationality of someone I'm going to put into the highest office in the land?

Blogwhoring: click on my name to read my blog post on this from August.

Romney tried the same "what's the difference?" line with an NPR reporter under similar circumstances yesterday--accompanied by a smirky chuckle. Glad I don't have to choose either of them.

"Education is a state function. The more state it is, and the less federal it is, the better off we are."
Huck

However, abortion is an UNstate issue, it's a federal, national, global and perhaps a universal issue meaning it should be banned in all states, nations, then take the prohibition to Merc, Venus, Mars and on out.

A planet that has seen a fourfold increase in population in the past 120 years needs every form of birth control that's presently legal. Another four fold increase in global population will take less than half as long. That clean 2,000 feet deep spring in Hot Springs will become very, very valuable if the preachers say no birth control or planning.

To help understand exponential growth click blue name. He's good.

Let me tell you, Huckabee is about to be Willie Hortoned. Wayne Dumond's rape victim (a personal friend of mine) was on ABC.

We all knew this was all it would take for the hunt and peck of the national media.

He's screwed.

And now that the horrendous truth (including the papers involved) about Huckabee's motivations and involvement in Dumond's release, and his and his staff's ongoing attempts at coverup, are out there (in Murray Wass' just published piece in the Huffington Post)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/04/documents-expose-huckabee_n_75362.html

we'll see if the mainstream media even report it, much less spin it.

Let's not be nice. The former Baptist minister and those who work for and protect him are, by the record, lying scum.

How obsessed are you?

Many folks I've talked to around here who have customarily supported Bill Clinton in the past are warming up to Huckabee. I don't think they'll vote in the GOP primary, but they believe he can win the nomination. If Huckabee becomes the nominee, they are strongly considering voting for him in November. It's astonishing to hear because they've never voted for a Republican before in their life - even when Huckabee was running for governor.

Ho, ho, ho, Prouster. If you have facts and documents to counter the facts and documents in the above-cited article, please share them. If you want to call me names for telling the truth, be my guest. That, after all, is what Huckabee does: tries to deflect ugly truths by attacking the messengers.

Since when is telling the truth "obsessed?" As the Murray Waas article points out, this entire sordid episode on Huckabee's part was motivated by "Clinton obsession."

And if you think "lying scum" is name-calling, consult a dictionary. "Lying" is simply factual, in this case. And "scum," defined as a "low, worthless, evil person," is also factual. When a politician's actions aid and abet rape and murder, even in the face of overwhelming legal, medical and scientific evidence, and he uses closed-door off-the-record tactics to do so, then lies to cover it up . . . what would you call him?

If I could have thought of a more accurate term, I'd have used it.

In the immortal words of Jack Nicholson, "You can't handle the truth."

Huck wants to know why there is so much interest in his beliefs? Well, if a middle-aged man said he believed in Santa Clause and his elves, sled, reindeer, and north pole toy factory, would one consider him an apt candidate for President of the United States?

Huckabee's welcome of Tim LaHaye's endorsement reminds me that Israel and the Middle East are pretty important in the USA's foreign policy -- and that many people in Huckabee's (and Bush's) base support Zionism big-time as a way of nagging God to get on with the eschaton and rapature!

Snapback,
What is it, exactly, you're trying to say about Santa Claus?
Just give it to me straight. I'm tired of all this whispering every December.

"I don't think schools ought to indoctrinate kids to believe one thing or another"-- M. Huckabee

Well ole Huck is on to something 'cause I'm thankful everyday that I have the History Channel to correct all that false indoctrination I received from so many of my teachers. For example: I was taught that Chris Columbus was the first white man to land on these shores (ha); and that he and a host of other great white men we're merely trying to save the heathen natives from themselves and all their silly notions about the land/environment/greed, when they enslaved them and took the land for themselves. And, I was shocked when I learned that women existed in history outside of the bedroom/kitchen. Not once in all my childhood classes about the Civil War did I learn about any of the numerous women heroines (from both sides). According to the 'indoctrination' of my childhood, just about all historical greatness belongs primarily to men...and mostly white men.

"I don't think schools ought to indoctrinate kids to believe one thing or another"-- M. Huckabee

So says our sheep-like idiot-savant ex-Governor. Who, of course, is all for "indoctrinating" kids and adults into conforming to his rural theocracy and forcing Arkansas law to adhere to his anti-rational superstitious religious bigotry when it comes to, oh, women's medical decisions and same-sex couples' equal civil rights, for starters.

Does this guy EVER tell the truth?

Nah. He lies in the name of God.

We Arkansans have always been at the bottom of the national barrel when it comes to education, progress and economy. And we like it that way.

Go Hogs.

Oh, wait. We're also now at the bottom of the barrel in terms of football.

Never mind. Arkansas is still the national embodiment of "inferiority complex," as anybody who travels or lives beyond our borders is made aware.

Too bad. It's a beautiful state with many beautiful and intelligent people.

So how come "Arkansas" is still a joke in the national media -- and has been since its Statehood?

Ah, who cares. Nobody, apparently. O-o-o Pig, Sooie!

At least we're a notch above Mississippi.

C'est la vie.