More Harry Shearer found comedy here... http://www.videosift.com/video/Mike-Huckabee-gets-a-lethal-injection

Stranger than fiction indeed!

The greatest thing Mike Huckabee ever did was to get American evangelicals to tolerate some degree of socialism -- i.e., caring about people after they're born, not just before they're born. This is in contrast to the traditional conservative evangelical lobby, which is preoccupied with saving embyos but thinks all the poor's problems are the result of god's punishment for their vices, and doesn't really care about helping the poor or improving public education because that requires taxes.

John McCain 827
Mitt Romney 286
Mike Huckabee 217
Ron Paul 16

GHeap,

You said: "I don't know what is greater, your ignorance or your aversion of the issue."

Almost certainly my ignorance, but it's not because of this issue. And I'm not avoiding anything. You made a claim about Romney's qualifications to serve under a Democratic president. I responded by pointing out that, in my opinion, most of his statements on the economy throughout the course of his campaign have been nothing but right-wing boilerplate. They haven't shown a nuanced understanding of the economy or a desire to be honest about our place in the world market (He's gonna bring all those auto industry jobs back to Michigan! Just you wait and see!). Moreover, I claimed that statements he made (in this video, no less!) about the Democrats and the war show him to lack sound political and strategic judgement. I'd say that lacking good judgement should pretty much disqualify you from having any cabinet position in any administration, but I guess that's just me trying to skirt the issue. Oh, wait...

The fact is, your suggestion was ill thought out. It would be as ludicrous as me saying that Romney, if he'd won, should've made Ralph Nader his Secretary of Labor.

"He's got the Reganomics thing going on. And despite how you feel about Regan, he did the economy justice."

First of all, his name was Ronald Reagan. Second, do you mean the "Reaganomics" that GHWB called "voodoo economics?" Or are you talking about the Reaganomics that no less a conservative than Mike Huckabee says is "more concerned with Wall Street than Main Street?" No, Ronald Reagan did not "do the economy justice" (mostly for the reasons Farhad points out above). And in the areas where he wasn't as awful as he could've been, it was largely because he had been embarrassed by the failure of his more ideologically driven first 2 years in office, and was forced to the left. As blogger Ezra Klein puts it:

"This is a guy who raised taxes six years in a row...passed a massive amnesty bill, wildly increased the size of the federal government, exploded the deficit, saved Social Security by instituting a large payroll tax, and expanded the Earned Income Tax Credit. Not to say he didn't have his conservative dogma humming along quietly in the background, but the last seven years of his administration saw him somewhat chastened, and far more deal-oriented."

So more Reaganomics? If that term means "fucking the economy up for 2 years until the situation becomes so bad politically that I have to try to pass some half-assed fixes that wouldn't be nearly as good as what the Democrats would have done all along," then I'll pass. So will any Democratic nominee for president, thankfully.

Finally, I'd point out that even though I thought what you said was stupid, I didn't downvote your comment. It was pretty cheap that you did so to me, but it's your character and reputation at stake when you do such things, not mine.

nah this has to be fake.

But then again under the US system, since 'delegates', rather than a direct count of the citizens actual votes, determine the final election result does it really matter if the ink is 'invisible' or not?

"Mike Huckabee wins in a startling turn of events!"

Tags for this video have been changed from 'Republican, deabte, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, John Mcain, MItt Romney' to 'Republican, debate, Ron Paul, Mike Huckabee, John Mcain, Mitt Romney' - edited by jwray

Ok, Obviously knowledge is not granted with shiny stars. After watching the debate, I decided to sift it, so that people who did not get a chance could watch it and see how even CNN is buckling. Ron Paul or Mike Huckabee did not get much talk time, while Mcain and Romney sat there and got to *discuss anything they saw fit.

The host site, Youdecide2008.com (where i got the embed) has them all linked to play automatically. Problem is they arn't doing it here. Can anyone help me?

Some observations after watching the video.

-He doesn't say anything resembling the comment you've quoted above.

-His use of 'we' is inclusive of society as a whole, not limited to himself or any race.

-He speaks of the growing economic disparity, but does not limit it to African Americans, and does not personalize it.

-Anorexia is an eating disorder, and probably isn't the best comparison to race or social class.

-I imagine even Mike Huckabee said some kind words about MLK today.

Correct me if I'm wrong on any of these.

ajkido: If most americans are like Mike Huckabee, then they are indeed horrible people, not just horrible americans. The constitution was written by people that were much smarter than whoever wrote the "word of the living god".

This makes me physically sick. I cannot adequately express my rage. Mike Huckabee is a horrible American.

Now the Theocrats Want 'American Religious History Week'
http://alternet.org/story/73778/

With House Resolution 888, the religious right seeks to rewrite American history, turning the founding fathers into Christian fundamentalists.

Here is an event I have no intention of honoring: American Religious History Week. OK, it's not official yet. But it is spelled out as Resolution 888 in the bowels of a House committee, sponsored by Republican Congressman Randy Forbes and backed by thirty-one other Representatives. This is an insidious attempt by the radical Christian right to rewrite American history, to turn the founding fathers from deists into Christian fundamentalists, to proclaim us officially to be a Christian nation. If you want to know why Mike Huckabee is dangerous, why his brand of right-wing Christian populism is so frightening, you should read this resolution.

http://alternet.org/story/73778/

Snake Plissken is coming back to pass judgment on Chuck Norris for endorsing Mike Huckabee.

Ant: A proof, you ask?

Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man = a monster
Cloverfield monster = a monster
with some simple arithmatic we get

Stay-Puft Marshmallow Man = a monster = Cloverfield monster
Quod Erat Demonstrandum

There's several of us. Including at least two* other top 15ers, or three,*** if you count people who studied here. Dig through the Videosift archives for Siftups, there've been 3 to date in Canada actually, two in Toronto.

*zifnab and fedquip

**farhad

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Krupo = Canadian? New knowledge, I am not alone.

Beaten by mere minutes: http://www.videosift.com/video/Mike-Huckabee-congratulates-Canada-on-preserving-its-nation

...featuring the college-educated governor of arkansas, mike huckabee.