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By Andrew Jones
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R) is somehow still confused over the nationality and background of President Barack Obama.
Huckabee appeared on The O’Reilly Factor Friday evening to discuss the growing story of Mitt Romney unveiling his tax returns, saying the GOP candidate should do that based solely on one condition.
“Let him make this challenge,” he said. “I’ll release my tax returns when Barack Obama releases his college transcripts and the copy of his admission records to show whether he got any loans as a foreign student.”
Huckabee’s bizarre view of Obama stemmed from a 2009 email, based on an Associated Press April Fools joke, claiming Obama received a scholarship for foreign students while he attended Occidental College.
This isn’t the first time Huckabee has sorely lacked knowledge on Obama’s history. Last February, he wrongly claimed that Obama “grew up in Kenya.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/01/21/huckabee-obama-was-a-foreign-student/
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I agree, Why do we hire these Dumb Asses to begin with???By Andrew Jones
Saturday, January 21, 2012
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Would the Party of Reagan actually elect their hero if he were running for the nomination today? Potential presidential candidate Mike Huckabee says no, and gives some pretty compelling reasons why not in this video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uRcNBXnyy8g&feature=player_embeddedWould the Party of Reagan actually elect their hero if he were running for the... more
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“Ron Paul cannot get elected” President, declared Donald Trump at this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference. Trump, who has never run for office, let alone won an election, may want to reconsider his parroting of this common refrain: A new CNN poll finds that, of all the Republicans being discussed as potential presidential candidates, the longtime Texas congressman has the greatest chance of beating Barack Obama, while The Donald comes in dead last.
In a hypothetical match-up between Paul and Obama, Obama beats Paul by only seven percentage points (52 to 45 percent). Meanwhile, Obama bests former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee by eight points, former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney by 11 points, former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich by 17 points, former Alaska Governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin by 19 points, and Trump by a whopping 22 points. (The poll, by the way, was taken April 29 – May 1 and completed before Obama’s announcement of Osama bin Laden’s death. It has a margin of error of plus or minus three percentage points.)
CNN, which buried this most interesting facet of the poll’s results halfway into its story, itself given the bland headline “CNN Poll: Still no front-runner in the battle for the GOP nomination,” still hastened to add that such hypothetical match-ups are meaningless. CNN Polling Director Keating Holland remarked, “It should be obvious to any political observer that hypothetical general election match-ups at this stage of the game have relatively little predictive value.”
Holland did, however, point out: “GOP primary match-ups are another matter — since the modern era of presidential primaries began in 1972, there have been six times when the GOP nomination was up for grabs. In five of those six election cycles, the eventual GOP winner was leading the polls taken in April of the previous year. That may mean little in 2011 since no Republican hopeful has a commanding lead, but it also means that the history books won’t let us completely dismiss these polls.”
That the results of the Republican primary match-ups are more comforting to the Beltway consensus may also explain Holland’s willingness to accept those results while dismissing the Paul-Obama match-up out of hand. Sixteen percent of Republicans and independents who lean Republican prefer Huckabee for the GOP nomination, 14 percent support Trump, 13 percent back Romney, 11 percent go for Palin, 10 percent like Gingrich, and another 10 percent pull for Paul. With only six points separating the first choice from the last, Holland did say “it’s way too soon to start talking about frontrunners,” so the yawner of a headline is accurate if unlikely to induce many mouse-clicks to see the details.
This is not the first time Paul has performed well against Obama in opinion polls. A 2010 Rasmussen poll found that Paul and Obama were virtually tied in a hypothetical election, Obama at 42 percent and Paul at 41 percent. Such repeated results should put paid to the notion that Paul, who has won 11 House races, is unelectable, particularly against the increasingly unpopular Obama.
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/05/05/cnn-poll-still-no-front-runner-in-the-battle-for-the-gop-nomination/“Ron Paul cannot get elected” President, declared Donald Trump at this... more
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Speaking at an event in Iowa, likely Republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee urged the crowd to be “spiritual warriors” in the fight to protect the sanctity of marriage, even if it costs you your job.
Huckabee spoke at the Des Moines Sheraton, in a battle cry of sorts to energize his evangelical base.Speaking at an event in Iowa, likely Republican presidential aspirant Mike Huckabee... more
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I was out in Los Angeles at UCLA talking about the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary this week. (The Corps started when John F. Kennedy decided it was a good idea getting young people out there helping countries to develop and in the process learning something about how the rest of the world looks at things). It came to me that everything good about that idea is being assaulted these days. Huckabee was out there trashing learning anything from the rest of the world.
The whole stupidization that began with Bush's inane attempt to rename French fries. Now this guy Huckabee is going on the radio singing a song that the president isn't really 'one of us,' because his father, who stayed with him until the age of 2, infected him with some kind of foreignness.
You know: He's a Kenyan, a secret Muslim, he's over there where those African people are, where those different people live. I thought we were beyond this yahoo talk, this fear of the world, this monkey trial nonsense.
But we're not, are we? We have knuckleheads playing to the god-knows-who crowd saying how Obama was somehow involved with the Maus Maus, hanging around madrasa schools.
All he did was right as a regular American kid, playing basketball on a championship team in Hawaii. That's what i wanted to do growing up, be a championship basketball player. He went to Catholic school, like I did.
He got into occidental college, then he went to Harvard law and made the law review. What more do you want his kid to do? He's done everything right. Look at his marriage. Michelle has done everything right. Her brother is a top basketball coach out of Oregon State. Their kids look like they're from a picture book. This isn't just the American Dream -- it's darn near perfect.
And what is this right wing goon squad doing?
They keep talking about his father? His grandfather? What about his grandfather that fought under Patton in World War II? What are these people looking for -- some evidence that he's black? Is that it?
They ought to be ashamed of themselves.
You know what's un-American? Huckabee and Newt and the rest of this.I was out in Los Angeles at UCLA talking about the Peace Corps' 50th anniversary... more
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Mike Huckabee Slams Natalie Portman For ‘Child Out Of Wedlock’ | Huffington Post
Mike Huckabee was not celebrating for Natalie Portman as she accepted her Best Actress Oscar on Sunday night — he was passing moral judgments.Mike Huckabee Slams Natalie Portman For ‘Child Out Of Wedlock’ |... more
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Bryan Safi uses his "That's Gay" bully pulpit to defend President Obama for not defending the Defense of Marriage Act. Sounds confusing, yes, but not nearly as baffling as the vitriol that Obama's decision has unleashed among opponents of gay marriage. Watch as Bryan is buffeted by the ill winds blown by the likes of Newt Gingrich, Mike Huckabee and Megyn Kelly. It's what's known in the weather biz as a "shi*storm."
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WASHINGTON, DC – Before she’ll even consider entering the 2012 fold, Former Gov. Sarah Palin has one request: apologize. In a mass email sent to major news outlets, late night comics, her potential GOP rivals, and President Obama and members of his administration, Palin takes issue with the personal attacks she believes she’ll receive on the campaign trail and demands she be apologized to in advance.
The email, which was sent out on Sunday night and obtained exclusively by SuperTuesdayNews, has all the usual hallmarks of a classic Palin demand for an apology – defensive tone, passive-aggressive laugh lines, incomprehensible internet slang – with the exception of a specific event to warrant an apology. The text of the email follows:
Subject: I M outraged
"Dear _____,
It isn’t even 2012 and already it’s open season on Sarah. Even tho I haven’t made up my mind about running for president yet, I can pretty much count on you saying some very bad things about me and my awesome family if I do. If you have any sense of decency, you will pls take back the hurtful comments you were going to make and apologize to me. I don’t think I’m being unreasonable. But if you have to put me down to make yourself feel big, we’ll let the voters decide if they want to elect someone so insecure, they have to resort to childish public ploys for attention. Xoxo, Sarah"
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee was the first recipient of Palin's email to issue an apology. In an official statement, Huckabee said, "I apologize profusely and unconditionally for any slight I may have made, or will make against Sarah, real or perceived, now and in perpetuity. I beg her forgiveness and hope she will still consider me to be her running mate once she wins the nomination."
Palin defended her decision to preemptively solicit apologies during an appearance on Rush Limbaugh's radio show on Monday. "After being on the receiving end of so many attacks on my character, I'm simply doing what I know is necessary. Why should I have to endure personal attacks from socialists and Republicans-In-Name-Only who don't even appreciate America? If they're so thin-skinned that they can't even apologize for something they were gonna do, then maybe they should do us all a favor and get out of politics now."
For more Election 2012 laughs, visit www.SuperTuesdayNews.com - political satire served up daily!WASHINGTON, DC – Before she’ll even consider entering the 2012 fold,... more
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Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) compared abortion to slavery at an anti-abortion fundraiser, according to the University of Tennessee's Daily Beacon.
Huckabee, a top contender for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination, said abortion shouldn't be a states rights issue, as that would be like making slavery a states rights issue.
"It was wrong to own a slave in Mississippi and Michigan," Huckabee said, as quoted by the student newspaper Daily Beacon. "This is not a states issue."
Giving the keynote speech at a Knoxville Convention Center event organized by the anti-abortion Center for Bioethical Reform, Huckabee called abortion a moral issue that's "not about left and right" but "about right and wrong."
Tennessee news station WBIR reported that outside the Monday dinner, protesters rallied against the Center for Bioethical Reform, which is "known for posting images of aborted fetuses on the UT campus as part of its anti-abortion campaign."
Huckabee is considered to be one of the GOP's top three contenders to lead the 2012 Republican ticket for the presidency, sharing the stage with former governors Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin in numerous polls.
"For me this is an issue that I've said before, transcends all of the political issues. I often said I would gladly lose an election before I would ever yield on the issue of the sanctity of human life," Huckabee told the crowd.
Huckabee is especially popular with Republican voters who rank religious and social issues as their top priorities.
He has made a similar comparison before. At a 2009 fundraiser, Huckabee said allowing abortion would be like telling the younger generation that "it is perfectly OK for one person to own another human being."
"I thought we dealt with that 150 years ago when the issue of slavery was finally settled in this country, and we decided that it no longer was a political issue, it wasn't an issue of geography, it was an issue of morality," he said, according to The Associated Press.
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2011/02/16/mike-huckabee-likens-abortion-to-slavery/Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee (R) compared abortion to slavery at an... more
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South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Murder Of Abortion Providers | TPM
Killing a doctor who performs abortions in South Dakota may soon be, in some circumstances, legally justifiable — that is, if a bill passed out of committee in the state House of Representatives on Monday, which makes it a “justifiable homicide” for someone to kill someone attempting to harm an unborn child, becomes law.South Dakota Bill Could Legalize Murder Of Abortion Providers | TPM
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Mike Huckabee may be picking up steam heading into the 2012 presidential primary, as a new poll finds him well ahead of the other potential challengers just two months after he placed fourth in the same survey. It's the second poll this week to find the former Arkansas governor leading the GOP field.
In the poll, 24% of Republican voters said Huckabee was their top choice for the party nod. Sarah Palin and Mitt Romney trailed by 10 points each at 14%, while Newt Gingrich trailed further behind at 11%. Tim Pawlenty led the second-tier candidates at 8%, followed by Ron Paul (7%), Mitch Daniels (4%), and John Thune (1%.)
Huckabee's support has grown eight points since PPP last polled the question in November. At that time, Palin led the pack at 21%, with Gingrich and Romney close behind at 19% and 18% respectively.
While Huckabee has surged in the poll, support for Palin and Gingrich has dropped off considerably. Gingrich's support has fallen by eight points since November, while Palin's has fallen by seven.
Meanwhile, Pawlenty inched up four points in the poll, edging past Ron Paul. Pawlenty, a former governor of Minnesota, usually polls in the low single digits, but he's currently on a national book tour that is raising his profile.
Earlier this week, an ABC-Washington Post poll also found Huckabee in the lead, though by a much slimmer margin. In that poll, 21% of respondents said Huckabee was their guy, while 19% supported Palin and 17% supported Romney.
The PPP poll was conducted January 14-16 among 515 Republican voters. It has a margin of error of 4.3%.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/01/ppp-poll-huckabee-by-far-gops-top-choice-for-2012-nomination.phpMike Huckabee may be picking up steam heading into the 2012 presidential primary, as a... more
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Targeting Political Terrorism = LETS START HERE...
http://www.peopleokwithmurderingassange.com
Wikileaks today offered sympathy and condolences to the victims of the Tucson shooting together with best wishes for the recovery of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. Giffords, a democrat from Arizona's 8th district, was the target of a shooting spree at a Jan 8 political event in which six others were killed.
Tucson Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, leading the investigation into the Gifford shooting, said that "vitriolic rhetoric" intended to "inflame the public on a daily basis ... has [an] impact on people, especially who are unbalanced personalities to begin with." Dupnik also observed that officials and media personalities engaging in violent rhetoric "have to consider that they have some responsibility when incidents like this occur and may occur in the future."
WikiLeaks staff and contributors have also been the target of unprecedented violent rhetoric by US prominent media personalities, including Sarah Palin, who urged the US administration to “Hunt down the WikiLeaks chief like the Taliban”. Prominent US politician Mike Huckabee called for the execution of WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange on his Fox News program last November, and Fox News commentator Bob Beckel, referring to Assange, publicly called for people to "illegally shoot the son of a bitch." US radio personality Rush Limbaugh has called for pressure to "Give [Fox News President Roger] Ailes the order and [then] there is no Assange, I'll guarantee you, and there will be no fingerprints on it.", while the Washington Times columnist Jeffery T. Kuhner titled his column “Assassinate Assange” captioned with a picture Julian Assange overlayed with a gun site, blood spatters, and “WANTED DEAD or ALIVE” with the alive crossed out.
John Hawkins of Townhall.com has stated "If Julian Assange is shot in the head tomorrow or if his car is blown up when he turns the key, what message do you think that would send about releasing sensitive American data?"
Christian Whiton in a Fox News opinion piece called for violence against WikiLeaks publishers and editors, saying the US should "designate WikiLeaks and its officers as enemy combatants, paving the way for non-judicial actions against them."
WikiLeaks spokesman Julian Assange said: "No organisation anywhere in the world is a more devoted advocate of free speech than Wikileaks but when senior politicians and attention seeking media commentators call for specific individuals or groups of people to be killed they should be charged with incitement -- to murder. Those who call for an act of murder deserve as significant share of the guilt as those raising a gun to pull the trigger."
“WikiLeaks has many young staff, volunteers and supporters in the same geographic vicinity as these the broadcast or circulation of these incitements to kill. We have also seen mentally unstable people travel from the US and other counties to other locations. Consequently we have to engage in extreme security measures.”
“We call on US authorities and others to protect the rule of law by aggressively prosecuting these and similar incitements to kill. A civil nation of laws can not have prominent members of society constantly calling for the murder and assassination of other individuals or groups.”
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Recently Complete News Updates Today Unfortunately, I didn’t know enough about him but told him I would send him more information.Mr Herman Cain, President of the United States?Recently Complete News Updates Today Unfortunately, I didn’t know enough about... more
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Latest Complete News Updates Mr Herman Cain is a grassroots favorite because of his strong conservative message based on limited government and fiscal responsibility.Latest Complete News Updates Mr Herman Cain is a grassroots favorite because of his... more
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The AP adds that Huckabee "said Sunday that Iowa voters likely launched a national movement when ousting three state Supreme Court justices who agreed with a decision to strike a ban on gay marriage. Huckabee was in Des Moines courting evangelical conservatives who pushed him to victory in Iowa's leadoff precinct caucuses in the last election. 'The significance and historic nature of the judicial elections here in Iowa were far bigger than the borders of Iowa,' he said. 'It was a very important statement that voters made, a statement that resonated across the country and one that I think will give legs to a larger movement over the next few years.'"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/21/AR2010112102388.htmlThe AP adds that Huckabee "said Sunday that Iowa voters likely launched a... more
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The AP reports that the "liberal advocacy group" Media Matters "estimates that five potential 2012 GOP presidential candidates who work for Fox News Channel were on the air nearly 66 hours in the first 10 months of the year. ... Media Matters looked at the airtime of Sarah Palin, Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum and John Bolton, all paid contributors who frequently give commentary on the network. The fifth was Mike Huckabee, who as host of his own weekend show logs the most time on Fox. Using current advertising rates, Media Matters calculated that the five had received at least $40 million of free airtime. 'Essentially, there is a Fox News primary going on,' said Ari Rabin-Havt, Media Matters vice president."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11/18/AR2010111805220.htmlThe AP reports that the "liberal advocacy group" Media Matters... more
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Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, has been named the world’s most powerful person knocking Barack Obama off the top spot.
Barack Obama’s disastrous week was complete today when he was toppled from the number one spot as the ‘world’s most powerful man.’
Fresh from his battering in Tuesday’s mid-term elections, the President learned that Forbes magazine has named Chinese president Hu Jintao as the lead figure in the magazine’s Most Powerful People on Earth list.
President Obama came in second this year after topping the list last year, which was the first time Forbes began rating world figures on a power scale.
More: http://www.theblogismine.com/2010/11/05/barack-obama-is-no-longer-the-world-most-powerful-man/Hu Jintao, the Chinese president, has been named the world’s most powerful... more
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With the exception of Mitt Romney, Fox now has deals with every major potential Republican presidential candidate not currently in elected office.With the exception of Mitt Romney, Fox now has deals with every major potential... more
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Apr 13, 2010 10:06 pm US/Pacific
Huckabee Likens Gay Marriage To Incest, Polygamy
Possible 2012 GOP Contender Also Slams Adoptions By Gays
WASHINGTON (CBS) ―
Mike Huckabee, a potential Republican presidential candidate in 2012, says the movement to allow gays and lesbians to marry is comparable to legalizing incest, polygamy and drug use.
Huckabee also told college journalists last week that gay couples should not be permitted to adopt. "Children are not puppies," he said.
Huckabee visited The College of New Jersey in Ewing, N.J., last Wednesday to speak to the Student Government Association. He also was interviewed by a campus news magazine, The Perspective, which published an article on Friday.
Huckabee told the interviewer that not every group's interests deserve to be accommodated, if their lifestyle is outside of what he called "the ideal."
"That would be like saying, well there's there are a lot of people who like to use drugs so let's go ahead and accommodate those who want to use drugs. There are some people who believe in incest, so we should accommodate them. There are people who believe in polygamy, should we accommodate them?" he said, according to a transcript of the interview.
The 2008 presidential hopeful and former Arkansas governor also said that deciding which lifestyles should be accommodated and which ones should not creates a slippery slope.
"Why do you get to choose that two men are OK but one man and three women aren't OK?" he asked.
Huckabee added that his goal isn't to tell others how to live, but that the burden of proving that a gay marriage can be successful rests with the activists in favor of changing the law.
"I don't have to prove that marriage is a man and a woman in a relationship for life," he said. "They have to prove that two men can have an equally definable relationship called marriage, and somehow that that can mean the same thing."
Since the magazine published the interview, Huckabee's remarks have attracted considerable attention on the Web.
In a statement Tuesday, Huckabee said that while he believes what people do in their private lives is their business, "I do not believe we should change the traditional definition of marriage." He also said he thought the college magazine was sensationalizing his "well-known and hardly unusual views of same-sex marriage."
In response to a 1992 questionnaire from The Associated Press, Huckabee, then a Senate candidate in Arkansas, spelled out his opposition to homosexuality, saying it was crucial that the country not "legitimize immorality."
"I feel homosexuality is an aberrant, unnatural, and sinful lifestyle," he wrote, in response to a question about gays in the military.
He also advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, saying it was necessary to confine "carriers of this plague."
As governor, Huckabee supported an Arkansas policy that prevented same-sex couples from serving as foster parents. On gay marriage, he said in an interview, "Marriage has historically never meant anything other than a man and a woman. It has never meant two men, two women, a man and his pet, or a man and a whole herd of pets."Apr 13, 2010 10:06 pm US/Pacific
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