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Monday, December 17, 2007
Liz Halloran, senior writer for U.S.News & World Report, discusses the election trail and the all-important newspaper endorsements, and Zev Chafets, frequent contributor to the New York Times Magazine profiled Mike Huckabee in the 12/16 issue, "The Huckabee Factor." and discusses the appeal of Huckabee in the race right now.
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Can anyone name one thing Clinton has ever done for NYS? I don't get this "she has experience" thing.
Why make anything of Hucksterbee? He's a loser. Ds would love to run against him. So much low hanging fruit to pick, as Rachel Maddow sez.
Huckabee is NOT a viable candidate, he is saying the most basic middle american things right now and keeps his message positive...which is delusional to me...Talk about Ron paul and the 6 million he raised yesterday...
How can we take seriously someone who supports many of the tenets of Falwell? Who doesn't believe in evolution?
So he's talking about education. What kind of education is he talking about if he beleives in evolution? Should we infer a further Bush-style undermining of science education based on a radical Christian right agenda?
only in the GOP is this considered a courageous statement. MH is simply stating what solid majorities of Americans and the entire world already concluded long ago.
Didn't Iowan Rebublicans caucus for Pat Robertson- the devil's other brother?
1) During the Univision Republican debate Cuba came up. Ron Paul took the unpopular position of opposing the embargo and travel restrictions. Several others took very hard line positions.
2) Huckabee did not comment but Thompson's campaign sent out a press release quoting a letter from Huckabee as Governor of Arkansas in which he supported an end to the US embargo, going further than needed to simply support his substantial rice sales.
3) Within 24 hours Huckabee did a 180 degree flip flop, taking an even harder line on Cuba than Bush and receiving the endorsement of the Cuban American speaker of the Florida House of Representatives
4) Thompson also went out of his way several months ago to attack Michael Moore. The conservative Weekly Standard had an interview with Thompson at about that time in which the reporter noted the boxes of embargoed Cuban cigars in his study.
See http://candidatecubawatch.blogspot.com/
5) Conclusion, policy on Cuba a grossly under-reported touchstone issue about change in US foreign policy and its reputation in the world.
People...if religion is an issue in the next presidential election we are in serious trouble....
Aside from his willful ignorance regarding evolution and his demagoguery regarding Mormonism, what about the ethical questions surrounding Huckabee's tenure as governor?
I've never heard Brian speak the name Ron Paul....
It is staggering that in the 21st century we are still concerned about which candidate's sky god is better - we 'elected' a religious extremist in 2000, and look how well that worked out. God, said Bush, told him to invade Iraq. Let's hope God doesn't tell Bush to do anything else that stupid before he's out of office.
Shaheen asked if Obama sold drugs, a dog whistle way of saying he's a drug dealer. Now how slimey is that?
Mormons do, in a way, believe that Jesus and the Devil are brothers. They believe, as many other monotheists do, that Satan, or Lucifer, was an angel of God who rebelled. Mormons believe Lucifer, Jesus, and all humans were "spirit children" of God in a "pre-existence" before this earth was created. We were all spirit siblings, and when Lucifer led a rebellion, he was cast out of God's presence, along with a third of the children who followed him.
Let's hope this election doesn't come down to whose mythology is more likely.
Google Ron Paul neoNazis. You get a wealth of evidence of how they're supporting him.
no the neonazis have taking over already...;)
I find it hilarious that any candidate can think it a viable strategy to attack any other's past drug involvement since W was elected, with his record of drug and alcohol use that not only nearly ended his marriage, but got him arrested as well. If a "law and order" republican electorate can forgive W and elect him twice it makes no sense at all to bring up the subject in terms of any other candidate. Apparently the "law and order" republicans don't consider drug and alcohol abuse a serious legal problem.
every candidate has some extremist group supporting them. What about the right wing extremist, or religious nuts that are most likely supporting huckabee? or romney? It is not the candidates responsibility to pick and choose who supports him/her.
Ron paul probably does have a few supporters that his major supporters would like to stay away from. but why focus on the minority?? when his campaign is better represented by the majority of supporters that are average americans and believe in his message. or do you think 6 million dollars was raised by neo nazis?
A comment on a caller comment during your Huckabe segment. I find it interesting that "progressives" consider people with more conservative views as "political dinosaurs". Do these people not know that these political views go back to Plato and Socrates and have been discussed since the birth of western thought and ALL these points of view are equally aged.
NY liberals always play the neonazi card!
Re: Ron Paul and the white supremicists. He disavows their support. They are attracted to him because of his strong States Rights/Libertarian stance...it's not surprising, but he has equal support on the far left. Blaming him for some ignorant views on one side is a superficial treatment of his positions, which is all he ever gets.
I find him very interesting and I voted for Nader twice.
As for dealing with race relations...I'm sorry, but most of the candidates do nothing to help out the marginalized no matter what their lips say, so I wouldn't use it as a measuring stick for their potential policies. Bill Clinton had his 'war on welfare' and supported '3 strikes you're out' and the death penalty; yet he's considered a friend of black people--because the media labels him so, without much real analysis.
I am interested in Ron Paul solely because he speaks about abolishing the Federal Reserve and the IRS. Every single other candidate (R or D) doesn't seem to even know how the Fed Reserve works and manipulates the money supply. You know that recession we're facing now? It's not Bush nor Clinton's fault; it's Alan Greenspan and the league of banks in the Fed. Reserve that created that.
My question is that wnyc rarely has any coverage on ron paul, and the day they talk about his record setting fundraising, they let a call go through to affiliate ron paul and neo nazis? what is that about?
It is at least peculiar that a foreign policy which almost 2/3 of Americans oppose, does immense damage to our regional and international standing and over which significant differences have emerged among candiidates does not receive more attention from the media as a litmus test of just how serious campaigns are about change.
The LA Times and the Florida papers reported on Hudkabee's flip flop on Cuba, but it was obviously not important to Brian today.
Look at what is on our blog, including the transcript from the Brown and Black Forum response to NPR's reporter.
http://candidatecubawatch.blogspot.com/
regarding comment #18:
why focus on it? becuase the difference is that Paul appears to have connections to and share in some of the same ideas as these groups. it is more than just some white supremacist groups just latching on to him.
Just do a google search on it and you find a plethora of info on it and things he's said,etc.
Plus which....sure you can make the point you're making about any candidate but you would have to wonder WHY white supremacist groups find him appealing. That ALONE should give any reasonable person pause irregardless of the evidence that he's more entwined with these disgusting groups
I have been very interested in and excited about Obama's candidacy. Today, Chafets mentioned that Obama belongs to Jeremiah Wright's Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago. From what I have read thusfar about the pastors sermons and public statements, this does not reflect well on Obama.
http://archive.newsmax.com/archives/articles/2007/8/8/194812.shtml?s=lh
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