Just when I think he can’t get any worse…….he does.
We all know one vote he'll be getting.
“nonbelievers somehow deserve to be discriminated against is a view widely shared, particularly among Christian conservatives who seem to think “religion by the sword” is an oldie but a goodie”.
Replies sorted oldest to newest
The glib and genial Mike Huckabee--whose nutterances were described in the link provided above, presents himself as a defender of the U.S. Constitution. He aligns himself with the proponents of "original intent." I submit that he is more closely aligned with hypocrisy and gross inconsistency. Here is my rationale:
Huckabee, addressing the Value Voters Forum, blithered as described here:
<<<"Huckabee, in a tortured metaphor about answering phones “God is ringing,” exhorted his audience to answer the God-call by making sure only people with the right values are hired for jobs in Washington and by making sure those who “refuse to hear … God’s heart” are fired. No joke, Huckabee is suggesting that we should: 1) Find out whether government employees are true believers; 2) Fire those who aren’t.>>>
Does Huckabee realize that the Constitution, At Article VI, Paragraph 3, says this?
<<<The Senators and Representatives before mentioned, and the Members of the several State Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers, both of the United States and of the several States, shall be bound by Oath or Affirmation, to support this Constitution; but no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States.>>>
I was once a member of a steering committee for a multi- agency initiative in Florida. The group was chaired by a well-meaning, but bumbling fellow who was often so clueless that the members wondered why in the world he had been assigned this responsibility. In an off-the-record conversation in the absence of this particular doofus, one member described him as an "amiable ass." I have always remembered that and have encountered others who fit the description. I must now add Huckabee to that group.
Come on you "constitutionalists"--stand up for your raving theocrat Mike Huckabee! If you elect this varmint as President, he will need your support in order to conduct his purge of non-believers from federal positions.
I personally would vote for Huckabee Contendah, but a anti-constitutionalist
like yourself should run against that varmint. The guy has never been
successful at anything he's done and he's such an unpleasant mean spirited
ole boy. I bet he doesn't have any friends. not like you do.
I personally would vote for Huckabee Contendah, but a anti-constitutionalist
like yourself should run against that varmint. The guy has never been
successful at anything he's done and he's such an unpleasant mean spirited
ole boy. I bet he doesn't have any friends. not like you do.
___
And would you support him as President should he be elected and immediately embark on a program to fire all non-believers holding federal jobs?
I personally would vote for Huckabee
_______
I'm surprised that you would vote for a man that would want to fire all non-believers from their jobs.
I personally would vote for Huckabee
_______
I'm surprised that you would vote for a man that would want to fire all non-believers from their jobs.
____
Why should you be surprised at any inconsistency comong from Invictus, a walking bundle of inconsistencies?!
Why should you be surprised at any inconsistency comong from Invictus, a walking bundle of inconsistencies?!
______
I would be surprised at anyone that refers to themselves as a Christian but would vote for & support someone like Huckabee that wants to take the job of an unbeliever & Atheist.
Paul Harvey used to have a commentary on the radio. Huckabee took over for him. I wish Paul Harvey was back.
I personally would vote for Huckabee
_______
I'm surprised that you would vote for a man that would want to fire all non-believers from their jobs.
Sorry about that, I didn't notice that mistake, it should've read "wouldn't."
Funny they didn't post what he actually said, only what they say he meant. Sure looks to me that by firing he meant vote them out. Now, before everyone goes all to pieces, I don't listen to or support Huckabee, I did a search. Everyone should do that when they hear/see these ridiculous blurbs that just scream there is more to the story. I even give obama the benefit of the doubt until I do the research. Nothing new here with huckabee. Seems this is the way the man feels and has been saying forever. Many so called christians or atheists that want to attack huckabee vote for and support muslims, and just think what they'd like to do with the atheists and all others that don't believe as they do. It's a lot worse than firing them.
----------------------------------------------------
What he said:
Some of you are frustrated and even upset and angry about America, and I get it. And I say to you, the answer is as simple as it is that the answer to the phones in our hearts that God is ringing. When we register people to vote, when we get them to the polls to vote, when we hire the people that will take our values to this city, and when we fire the ones who refuse to hear not only our hearts, but God’s heart.
Funny they didn't post what he actually said, only what they say he meant. Sure looks to me that by firing he meant vote them out. Now, before everyone goes all to pieces, I don't listen to or support Huckabee, I did a search. Everyone should do that when they hear/see these ridiculous blurbs that just scream there is more to the story. I even give obama the benefit of the doubt until I do the research. Nothing new here with huckabee. Seems this is the way the man feels and has been saying forever. So called christians also vote for and support muslims, and just think what they'd like to do with the atheists and all that don't believe as they do.
----------------------------------------------------
What he said:
Some of you are frustrated and even upset and angry about America, and I get it. And I say to you, the answer is as simple as it is that the answer to the phones in our hearts that God is ringing. When we register people to vote, when we get them to the polls to vote, when we hire the people that will take our values to this city, and when we fire the ones who refuse to hear not only our hearts, but God’s heart.
____
What you quoted does not in any way change the fact that Huckabozo is, in fact, advocating the firing and the non-hiring of those who refuse to line up with "God's heart," i.e. those who are not "believers." His criteria for hiring and firing include the patently religious-based discriminator of whether a given government official is a believer and in that he is violating the Constitution! It is entirely legitimate to "register people to vote" and to "get them to the polls to vote." Those are the first two items in Huckabozo's theo-political protocols. The second two items in his list are hiring and firing those who refuse to "hear God's heart."
And by the way, the hiring and firing of such persons could not be entirely achieved at the polls. There are many governmental officials who are not elected by popular vote, but who are appointed to high office--such people as cabinet secretaries, assistant secretaries, and heads of independent agencies. Huckabozo surely has his sights on these influential offices. When is the last time you voted for Secretary of Defense? So Huckabozo's purge of the unbelievers would require more extensive measures than registering huge numbers of right wingers and hauling them to the polls.
Again contendah, you are giving what he said YOUR slant so you can attack him. I stand by what I posted. By firing he means voting them out or not voting them into office in the first place.
So Huckabozo's purge of the unbelievers would require more extensive measures than registering huge numbers of right wingers and hauling them to the polls.
Huckabee's 'purge' is simple. He says the obvious, if you don't like it, don't vote for them, or vote them out when you have the chance. That means instead of complaining you have to go to the polls. Funny, lefties have no problem rallying voters by any means necessary. That includes the dead, and illegal's vote.
I keep trying to fire the ones I don't like, but the other side keeps overruling my vote.
Oh well, I'll try again next time.
My responses to your evasive reply are in blue:
Again contendah, you are giving what he said YOUR slant so you can attack him. I stand by what I posted. By firing he means voting them out or not voting them into office in the first place.
No slant there, Best. He said what he said in plain English. It is you, not I, who have interpolated tnto his statement something that simply is not there. .Huckabozo listed four items in a series, each of which is to be given equal standing in such an application, according to prevailing rules of English usage. His bill of particulars:
"register people to vote,"
"get them to the polls to vote"
"hire the people that will take our values to this city,"
"fire the ones who refuse to hear not only our hearts, but God’s heart."
The first two measures are clearly legal and proper.
It is the last two of these that fly in the face of the 6th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.
So Huckabozo's purge of the unbelievers would require more extensive measures than registering huge numbers of right wingers and hauling them to the polls.
Huckabee's 'purge' is simple. He says the obvious, if you don't like it, don't vote for them, or vote them out when you have the chance. That means instead of complaining you have to go to the polls. Funny, lefties have no problem rallying voters by any means necessary. That includes the dead, and illegal's vote.
You ignore altogether what I wrote concerning public officials who are NOT elected. The numerous high-level federal employees in that category can neither be voted in or out of office.
As to the firing element of Huckabozo's purification strategy, the non-believing existing appointed office holders among them would be among the chief targets for Huckabozo's theocratically-contrived purge. Non-believing candidates for appointive office would be considered a priori unfit to hold any appointive office, and thus would not be "hired" because they refuse to "hear God's heart" through, one would suppose, some kind of theologically-tuned magic stethoscope.
I missed it. Show me where he mentioned public officials that aren't elected.
"register people to vote,"
"get them to the polls to vote"
"hire the people that will take our values to this city,"
"fire the ones who refuse to hear not only our hearts, but God’s heart."
Sounds fine to me, because by firing he simply means don't vote them in or if they're in, vote them out. Nothing about firing people who aren't elected. The lefty that wrote the article added that/slanted and twisted it to mean something it didn't, and you're going along with it. Shame on you.
I repeat.
Many so called christians or atheists that want to attack huckabee vote for and support muslims, and just think what they (the muslims) would like to do with the atheists and all others that don't believe as they do. It's a lot worse than firing them.
_______
I missed it. Show me where he mentioned public officials that aren't elected.
"register people to vote,"
"get them to the polls to vote"
"hire the people that will take our values to this city,"
"fire the ones who refuse to hear not only our hearts, but God’s heart."
Sounds fine to me, because by firing he simply means don't vote them in or if they're in, vote them out. Nothing about firing people who aren't elected. The lefty that wrote the article added that/slanted and twisted it to mean something it didn't, and you're going along with it. Shame on you.
_____
Huckabozo in no way limited his frame of reference to elected federal officials. His red meat speech to his adoring loyalists was clearly intended to promote the notion of staffing government at all levels solely with those who are "believers."
From another of Huckabozo's ditzy hyper-theocratic eructations:
"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, 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],
http://atheism.about.com/od/mi.../ConstitutionGod.htm
One wonders just who, in the forming up of that planned theocratic regime, will decide what "God's standards" are. Will President Huckabozo and some right-slanted Congress assign that job to the Southern Baptists, the Catholics, some kind of cobbled-up Judeo-Christian coalition or what? You, Best, and your fellow atheists would find yourselves totally outside the gates.
Not interested in his other speeches. I asked you to show where he wanted to 'fire' people who aren't elected, you couldn't show me, case closed. Just because you and the rest of the left spin it a certain way doesn't make it so.
