Mike Huckabee is a liar!!!!

[MarkG]

Originally said by The Huckster
If Amazon.com and UPS can keep with $5 book, are you telling me that our federal government can't keep up with 10 million people? So, this I pledge to you. We will either fix it ourselves as a federal government or we will give that job over to UPS and they'll be able the find those folks.

i think we should premeptively bardcode-tag all Mexicans (before they think about passing the border). Amazon has barcodes on all its books before they ordered. why shouldnt we do the same?

[Kassiopeia]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I feel a need to return to this:

This is, quite honestly, the single stupidest thing I've heard any candidate say to date. I can't believe this guy was allowed to run a whole state -- even allowing for the fact that it was Arkansas.

I think Huckabee has managed to trump himself:

But I believe it’s a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living god. And that’s what we need to do — is to amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than try to change God’s standards so it lines up with some contemporary view of how we treat each other and how we treat the family.

Although "stupid" may not be right word. "Scary"?

[Elok]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
So Mike Huckabee doesn't see any real difference between an inanimate object and a sentient, locomotive being?

Oh, please dear God, let him win the Republican nomination.

Have you lost faith in the power of the Democratic Party to lose unloseable battles, or do you just hate America?

[Arrian]

Although "stupid" may not be right word. "Scary"?

Seconded.

-Arrian

[snoopy369]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I feel a need to return to this:

quote:
If Amazon.com and UPS can keep with $5 book, are you telling me that our federal government can't keep up with 10 million people?

This is, quite honestly, the single stupidest thing I've heard any candidate say to date. I can't believe this guy was allowed to run a whole state -- even allowing for the fact that it was Arkansas.

Frankly, although it's certainly rather extreme and perhaps badly worded, it's not a poor sentiment. The federal government is NOT particularly organized, at least the portions i've dealt with, and could stand to make a much more substantial effort to pay attention to this sort of thing ... and this is coming from someone who does not agree with the republican platform on immagration in the slightest

I read that as "Amazon has a financial incentive to pay attention to where its books are, so it pays attention. The Federal Government needs to take that attitude, rather than being lax on the job." Certainly we can't have people barcode scanned, or whatever, but we easily could have non-citizens check in when they enter the country, check in once a month or six months or year depending on the length of their visa/green card, and check in when they leave... that's not unreasonable, is it? It would make law enforcement easier, if there were a terrorism problem like many people are scared of, and would help make tracking down people who overstay their visit easier by quite a lot...

[Kuciwalker]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia
Although "stupid" may not be right word. "Scary"?

No, the terrifying thing is that, if elected, he might actually bring about things like that.

Kucinich is funny because if he were elected Congress [and everyone else] would just ignore him. Huckabee is dangerous because they wouldn't.

[dannubis]

Originally posted by Kassiopeia


Although "stupid" may not be right word. "Scary"?

Has somebody ever explained to this guy that the bible was composed by humans in 600 AD with the sole purpose of propagating the catholic church as the only church ? (vs the gnostics that is ?)

That guy should never even come close to a position of authority.

[DinoDoc]

The books were written earlier than that, dan.

[Whoha]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I feel a need to return to this:



This is, quite honestly, the single stupidest thing I've heard any candidate say to date. I can't believe this guy was allowed to run a whole state -- even allowing for the fact that it was Arkansas.

You better hope more people don't figure it out, or else they'll stop paying taxes and you will be out of a job.

[DirtyMartini]

Originally posted by Rufus T. Firefly
I feel a need to return to this:



This is, quite honestly, the single stupidest thing I've heard any candidate say to date. I can't believe this guy was allowed to run a whole state -- even allowing for the fact that it was Arkansas.

Not that it makes it any better or anything, but I think the statement is just empty pandering. I doubt he really thinks that it's possible to track immigrants like shipping crates, saying it just makes for a nice little soundbite for the anti-immigrant, closed border crowd. Plus, he likes to be seen as the down-to-earth jokey candidate -- this is sort of in that vein.

[Patroklos]

Has somebody ever explained to this guy that the bible was composed by humans in 600 AD with the sole purpose of propagating the catholic church as the only church ?

There was no such thing as a Catholic before the schism.

[dannubis]

(read between the brackets)

I meant the Roman based Church.

[dannubis]

Originally posted by DinoDoc
The books were written earlier than that, dan.

Yes, as were a lot of other books that weren't included in the bible because they didn't fit in the politics of the growing roman based church.

So who is to decide what exactly the uncencored "words of the living god" are/were.

[Will9]

Originally posted by dannubis


Yes, as were a lot of other books that weren't included in the bible because they didn't fit in the politics of the growing roman based church.

So who is to decide what exactly the uncencored "words of the living god" are/were.

It wasn't as simple as "these will help us spread the church and those will make us seem weird." The gospels that were chosen were the ones with the information that most agreed about. The ones that were excluded usually had information written in them that few others agreed with and were therfore unreliable. BTW, the books were chosen in Nicea under Constintine, not under the Roman Church 300 years later.

[Jon Miller]

Originally posted by Will


It wasn't as simple as "these will help us spread the church and those will make us seem weird." The gospels that were chosen were the ones with the information that most agreed about. The ones that were excluded usually had information written in them that few others agreed with and were therfore unreliable. BTW, the books were chosen in Nicea under Constintine, not under the Roman Church 300 years later.

The books were being discussed in the earliest nonNT writings we have, from ~100 AD.

JM