Huckabee: God Is Putting Me Ahead In The Polls
Here's a fun video clip just making its way around YouTube — Mike Huckabee at the Liberty University convocation last week, attributing his rise in the polls to divine power, and the intercessionary prayers of his supporters:
Comments (37)
Jeremy wrote on December 6, 2007 1:22 PM:What a sense of humor that guy has.
cms wrote on December 6, 2007 1:31 PM:I'm going to be ill. This could easily be the guy we run against.
The pundits will never understand, "and it's probably just as well that they won't"
Psalm 118 22The stone that the builders rejected has become the chief cornerstone. 23This is the Lord’s doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.willyjsimmons wrote on December 6, 2007 1:41 PM:
@ john mccutchen
Amazing how the scriptures take on a different meaning given the context.
LOL
WOW.
Dan S wrote on December 6, 2007 1:46 PM:...no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.
Article VI, section 3
The Constitution of the United States of America
Huckabee just put God in a box. Now if he loses, he has to explain how his God is not also a loser.
Steve wrote on December 6, 2007 1:55 PM:Yet another reminder of how conservative America really is . . .
Michael A wrote on December 6, 2007 2:05 PM:The thing that always amazed me about this religious pontificating on the right. How are they so sure that its God and not the devil? Seems to me that the huckster killed people while governor. Is that christ-like? or more like the devil? Hmmm, I don't know if I would bank on those "little voices" being from God, when they are telling republican "christians" to screw the poor and disadvantaged in our society. Ask falwell, I am sure its very hot, hot, hot where he's parked right now. It makes one wonder.
vena wrote on December 6, 2007 2:07 PM:God is putting him ahead in the polls? I'm not religious, but I'm sure God has better things to do with his time than promote Mike Huckabee. And let's say his theory is true, what does it mean that this somewhat campaign-ending scandal comes out in the midst of his poll surge? What does he think of God's involvement now? Oh wait, the devil is doin' this. (*wink*)
shortstop wrote on December 6, 2007 2:08 PM:I'm willing to entertian the idea that God was helping Huck in the polls. But then I'd have to say that God has now decided Huck needs to answer for the unforgivable deed of lying about/trying to cover up his active participation in releasing a violent criminal despite having been given plenty of evidence the guy would rape and kill again.
Funny how God works, huh?
Richard wrote on December 6, 2007 2:10 PM:I believe it was around 1998 that then Governor Bush was making the rounds with similar statements. On one christian tv show he said openly that he believed that "God was calling him to run for President".
This is standard fare and almost a requirement for a republican presidential candidate. Huckabee does have the resume to add some weight (not as much as he used to though) to his statements.
nellieh wrote on December 6, 2007 2:19 PM:Another nut hears his God. Anmd surprise! He heard what he wanted to! Their God must be laughing his ass of at these stupid religious nuts. Those in the Democratic Party too. They reference 'God' as if they have a 'conversation' and he 'tells' them 'what they want to hear.' Obama said he will talk to his God when making decisions. Bush 'listens' to his God. If Obama listens to the same one I sure as hell don't want him in the White House. Maybe their God wants the USA to go down the drain. Because that seems where the evangelicals, Catholic Bishops want to send us. These people reference the 'Founding Fathers' as though they read their letters and works. They keep saying God is in the Constitution. They were profound in their determination to have a secular government. And succeeded until 1981. I think it's funny they could predict what would happen 230+ years in the future if the separation of church and state crumbled.
Anonymous wrote on December 6, 2007 3:18 PM:They better start praying that asking the Parole Board to release a rapist who went on to rape and murder again doesn't doom Huck's candidacy.
Iowan wrote on December 6, 2007 3:38 PM: I think Mike will have to admit that God is also weighing in on him being exposed as an ill-informed religious demagogue, too. But for his new spot at the top of the Republican polls, the media was not doing its due diligence on his record, his readiness, etc.
Now, why would God be doing this???
coulda been God who did this
coulda been the other guy too
they both like to fuck with people's heads
huckster never thought of that ???
God wrote on December 6, 2007 3:55 PM:I work in mysterious ways.
Linda wrote on December 6, 2007 4:31 PM:Please Please Please not another right wing. They believe we are living in the End Time, when the son of God will return, the righteous will enter heaven, and sinners will be condemned to eternal hellfire. They may also believe, along with millions of other Christian fundamentalists, that environmental destruction is not only to be disregarded but actually welcomed -- even hastened -- as a sign of the coming Apocalypse. Please not another to take us to "End Time." Please not another one.
Powkat wrote on December 6, 2007 4:38 PM:God is answering Huckabee's prayers? Is God ignoring Romney because he doesn't listen to Mormans? Or are more people praying for Huckabee and God goes with the majority?
What about Guiliani? Is God punishing him for being a lapsed Catholic?
What if Hillary puts her 'prayer warriors' who she says helped her thru the Monica thing on it? Does God listen to Democrats?
What's a secular humanist to do?
colonpowwow wrote on December 6, 2007 5:08 PM:Powkat asks:
"What's a secular humanist to do?"
Do what I do. I talk and listen to "whatever" it is that makes the voices in my head - and do whatever they tell me to do.
That's why I'm a Democrat, damnit!
Anonymous wrote on December 6, 2007 5:41 PM:In an effort to stem the political fallout, Huckabee and his staff agreed to meet for the first time with Dumond’s victim, Ashley Stevens, her family, and Fletcher Long, the prosecuting attorney who sent Dumond to prison. In interviews, both Walter “Stevie” Stevens, Ashley’s father, and Long both said they came away frustrated that Huckabee knew so few specifics about the case.
“He [Huckabee] kept insisting that there was DNA evidence that has since exonerated Dumond, when that very much wasn’t the case,” recalled Long. “No matter that that wasn’t true … we couldn’t seem to say or do anything to disabuse him of that notion.”
In fact, there had never been any DNA testing in the Ashley Stevens case.
The state official who advised Huckabee on the Dumond case confirmed that the governor knew very little about Ashley Stevens’ case:
“I don’t believe that he had access to, or read, the law enforcement records or parole commission’s files — even by then,” the official said. “He already seemed to have made up his mind, and his knowledge of the case appeared to be limited to a large degree as to what people had told him, what Jay Cole had told him, and what he had read in the New York Post.”
Jay Cole, like Huckabee, is a Baptist minister, pastor for the Mission Fellowship Bible Church in Fayetteville and a close friend of the governor and his wife. On the ultra-conservative radio program he hosts, Cole has championed the cause of Wayne Dumond for more than a decade.
Cole has repeatedly claimed that Dumond’s various travails are the result of Ashley Stevens’ distant relationship to Bill Clinton.
The governor was also apparently relying on information he got from Steve Dunleavy, first as a correspondent for the tabloid television show “A Current Affair” and later as a columnist for the New York Post.
Much of what Dunleavy has written about the Dumond saga has been either unverified or is demonstrably untrue. Dunleavy has all but accused Ashley Stevens of having fabricated her rape, derisively referring to her in one column as a “so-called victim,” and brusquely asserting in another, “That rape never happened.”
The columnist wrote that Dumond was a “Vietnam veteran with no record” when in fact he did have a criminal record. He claimed there existed DNA evidence by “one of the most respected DNA experts in the country” to exonerate Dumond, even though there was no such evidence. He wrote that Bill Clinton had personally intervened to keep Dumond in prison, even though Clinton had recused himself in 1990 from any involvement in the case because of his distant relationship with Stevens.
“The problem with the governor is that he listens to Jay Cole and reads Steve Dunleavy and believes them ... without doing other substantative work,” the state official said.
Had Huckabee examined in detail the parole board’s files regarding Dumond, he would have known Dumond had compiled a lengthy criminal resume.
Anonymous wrote on December 6, 2007 5:41 PM:http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=154e1aad-fd18-4efd-8d80-b5dab8559419
On the day of the vote, Huckabee released a statement in support of the board’s action: “I concur with the board’s action and hope the lives of all those involved can move forward. The action of the board accomplishes what I sought to do in considering an earlier request for commutation ...
“In light of the action of the board, my original intent to commute the sentence to time served is no longer relevant.”
Huckabee’s office then released a letter to Dumond denying his application for a pardon.
“Dear Wayne,” Huckabee wrote, “I have reviewed your applications for executive clemency, specifically a commutation and/or pardon. ... My desire is that you be released from prison. I feel now that parole is the best way for your reintegration into society. ... Therefore, after careful consideration ... I have denied your applications.”
Anonymous wrote on December 6, 2007 5:42 PM:Linda, you will not be pleased to hear that end-timer Tim Lahaye, author of the Left Behind series, has endorsed Huckabee.
gizmo wrote on December 6, 2007 6:30 PM:Reminds me of the Sam Kinison bit when
God is talking to Pat Robertson in bed.
"Pat, Pat, yeah, it's God Pat. I want you to go outside and check your tire pressure."
God is laughing with the angels:
"Let's watch him do it! There he goes hahahha!"
Tim LaHaye. Ooh, creepier and creepier. And isn't Mrs. LaHaye the head of Concerned Women for America? Do you think Pat Robertson will back off his endorsement of Rudy and come out for Huckabee?
Yeech - all this makes me want to take a shower.
EvilPoet wrote on December 6, 2007 7:28 PM:Dear Mr. Huckabee,
Carl Sagan once said: "extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence." I agree. Can you please provide evidence that God is helping you.
Thanks in advance,
The Loyal Opposition
I miss daily show and cobert report. Imagine how much fun they would have..
sparrow wrote on December 6, 2007 8:32 PM:I take it that because I'm not for the Hustster, I am in league with the devil?
Well, what can you expect coming from a candidate that declares that he isn't even a primate.
Isn't there some kind of commandment against using Gods name for self promotion. Doesn't blasphemy concern this snake oil salesman. As long as his supporters are praying and not sending money his light will burn out soon enough.
this is silly to say this because if he loses the election then will that be God making him lose ? he is in a sense making a mockery of what he claims (and many others too believe) is sacred
Mike Bakunin wrote on December 7, 2007 12:09 AM:Ah, the Anointed One.
Huck wrote on December 7, 2007 12:22 AM:All righty, then.
Where do we get people this self-involved--and blasphemous?
Ah, I forgot. From Liberty University.
jim wrote on December 7, 2007 4:55 AM:How do you like this?
Lea wrote on December 7, 2007 1:28 PM:Wake up America!!!!! I am so pleased to see a man finally stand up to the plate. I am not a perfect christian, but I still believe in God and that this country was founded on those christian beliefs. You wonder why things are so bad in this world, its because people have turned their back on christ. The mighty dollar means more than our morals these days. Prime example : taking in God We Trust off of our currency. That is just one of the craziest things. Well, I will be voting for Huck along with alot of other people. In God I do Trust.!!!!!!
Go MICHIGAN!!!!!!
Careful Lea, you're going to run out of exclamation points.
Re history, Jefferson's writings and much else from that period are available online e.g. http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/16784
and you might consult them.
Lea - why are you lying? I thought lying was a sin.
James wrote on December 7, 2007 5:43 PM:The pundits can explain it...the fundamentalists who make up a good share of the Republican party have found their candidate.
Lea I encourage you to read artical 11 of the treaty of Tripoli.
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