As if an all powerful, ominiscient god would back this pathetic nut job. Huckabee represents everything that is wrong with this country.

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This grandiosity, bordering on messianism, is either a sign of a colossal ego coupled with a small mind, or of psychosis. Or maybe both.

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It worked for Dubya!

(But maybe the Big Guy should've done something about that negative anti-negative bit shown to the assembled media.)

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Look out people - Huckleberry Hound Dog (aka Huckabee) is another Pat Robertson. Look at the parallels. He says Jesus the prince of peace; the turn the cheek savior would support the death penalty. We know he supports killing animals; at least dogs because of his support of his son who butchered a dog during a boy scout outing. I am sure he will support nuking our godless enemies like Patty did and will probably pray to turn away the next big hurricane. Accordingly God is supporting him; if that were the case; why not appear for him at a rally or a television add. Huckleberry Hound Dog (HHG) is schizophrenic. Although the current administration shows substantial signs of mental illness, HHG is taking it to a new level of outright insanity.

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Check out Welton Gaddy's response to Huckabee's religious craziness over at the Beacon Broadside blog - he gets it right, and Huckabee is just off the charts crazy.

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I'm very happy to see Mike be so honest about his religiousity.

It makes eliminating him as a potential president that much easier. (Not that I'd ever consider him).

It's much better that he wears his God on his sleeve now, rather than hide it, gain the presidency, and then let us all in on it.

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...between the Taliban ruling by it's fundamentalist faith and Huckabee attempting to rule this country by his???

Abso-fucking-lutely NOTHING.

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When will this country get its collective head out of its ass and realize that religion doesn't belong in politics, business or any other public forum. It's personal, whether nutcase wacky or commercial-giant-feel-good bullshit. Any politician or supposed "leader" (e.g. Pat Robertson, the lead nutcase wack-job)who invokes their "god" should be immediately written off as deluded, psychotic or worse. We need to keep in mind that religious fundamentalists from Islam to Judaism to Christianity have used their religious beliefs to murder, rape and pillage. Remember it was the pope's commander who said "Kill them all and let "God" sort them out" when murdering French Cathars on the pope's orders (Rome wanted their assets).

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In "Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed," Jared
Diamond discusses how religion has played a role in the collapse
of many civilizations. Christianity contributed to the collapse of
the Greenland Viking civilization. If the Greenland Vikings had
spent their money on iron to make weapons and tools, they would
have had a better chance of survival. Instead they bought stained
glass windows and religious goods at a time when their sickles
were worn down to the point of looking like box cutters. The
Greenland Vikings stuck to their "Christian" and European values
when the Inuits [Eskimos] could have taught them how to hunt
whales and some kinds of seals. The Greenland Vikings stuck to
their dislike of fish while starving to death. The climate got
colder as well, but the Greenland Vikings could have survived if
they had been willing to give up their old time religion and values.
The Greenland Vikings killed the Inuits [Eskimos] they met when
they should have married into Inuit [Eskimo] society to get the
benefit of the successful Arctic lifestyle and culture of the Inuits
[Eskimos].
The inhabitants of Easter Island destroyed their environment and
caused their civilization to collapse to make more of their statue
gods.
If the Americans continue to choose religion and coal burning
over science and nuclear power, the civilization you are now part
of will collapse when global warming causes the drought in
Atlanta, Georgia, California, Australia, Greece, Turkey, the Sahel,
China and other places to grow to the point that agriculture
collapses.
Religionists will, of course, resist any change in values
regardless of the fact that a change in values is necessary for
survival. This is an issue of the preachers' income. In the end,
the preachers may be eaten, but it is too late by that time.
[Cannibalism has been proven in the case of the fall of Anasazi
civilization in Chaco Canyon. The Anasazi hunted their
neighbors at the end.]

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Enough Americans with the ability to resaon should be able to see huckabum as the dangerous nut he is (at least I HOPE so). A vote for any one of the losers on the rethug side is a vote for four more years of the same old crap, or worse.

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If GWB can hallucinate foreign policy, so can Huckabee.
If you like pointless wars like Viet Nam and Iraq, you love
G.W. Bush and you will really love Huckabee. The
religious extremists, and maybe Huckabee, want to cause
Armageddon so that "rapture" will happen soon.
Armageddon = NUCLEAR World War 3!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The Russians still have 10,000 nukes left!

Remember: "GWB claims personal divine council" found
on page 409 of the book: "Dominance by Design" by
Michael Adas 2006 who references: Tariq Ali "The Clash
of Fundamentalisms: Crusades, Jihads, and Modernity"
London: Verso, 2002
Reference: "The God Delusion" by Richard Dawkins,
2006: "George Walker Bush says "God" told him to invade
Iraq."
Reference: "The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice"
Roger A. MacKinnon, M.D., Robert Michels, M.D.
W. B. Saunders Co. 1971
Reference: "The Origin of Consciousness in the
Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind" by Julian Jaynes
Professor, Harvard University 1976
George Walker Bush says "God" told him to be president.
Translation: George Walker Bush had an hallucination of a
god telling him to be president. Having an hallucination
qualifies George Walker Bush for a clinical diagnosis of
Schizophrenia. George Walker Bush says "God" told him
to invade Iraq. Translation: George Walker Bush had an
hallucination of a god telling him to invade Iraq. George
Walker Bush is a chronic schizophrenic. We are at war in
Iraq because the president is mentally ill.

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Reference: "The Republican War on Science" by Chris
Mooney, 2005, Basic Books. It has the following URLs:
http://www.waronscience.com/home.php
http://www.chriscmooney.com/
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05268/576883.stm

See also:
"Undermining Science, suppression and distortion in the
Bush Administration" by Seth Shulman, 2006

"The Republican War on Science" by Chris Mooney says:

"Because Trofim Lysenko convinced Josef Stalin that
genetics is wrong, 12 million people died of starvation.
The coal companies convinced President George W. Bush
[and Senator Inohe] that global warming hasn't happened
and 12 hundred people died in hurricanes in 2005. For the
same reason, people died in the wildfires in Oklahoma."
12 hundred is less than 12 million, but GWB is still
comparable to Stalin. Both adopted anti-science policies
for ideological reasons and thereby murdered large numbers
of their own citizens.
George W. Bush favors a form of "democracy" called
Theocracy. Huckabee is more extreme on this issue.
There is something that needs to be made explicit: Truth
is not determined by a vote of scientists. Scientists are not
authorities. Nature is the Only authority. There is only
one vote that counts, and Nature casts it. It isn't just "not
nice" to fool Mother Nature, it is impossible. Scientists
understand and believe this so innately that they never say
it, but other people may think that scientists wield power or
authority.
Reference: book: "Science and Immortality" by Charles B.
Paul 1980 University of California Press
The Eloges of the Paris Academy of Sciences (1699-1791)
page 99: "Science is not so much a natural as a moral
philosophy".
page 106: Nature isn't just the final authority, Nature is the
Only authority. When you try to disobey Nature [In
older language: "When you try to tell God how to run the
Universe".], the result is less subtle than a train wreck: The
rocket explodes on the launch pad. Oklahomans die in
wild fires when it should be winter. The Gulf coast suffers
the worst hurricane season ever. Tornado season extends
into January.
Book: "The Long Summer, How Climate Changed
Civilization" by Brian Fagan 2004 Basic Books
Summary: Small climate changes caused the fall of many
civilizations.

The Religious Right is also giving a war on Science, trying
to convince people that Evolution is wrong and trying to
prevent the teaching of Science in school. As we all know,
religion is caused by mental illness.

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...their invisible friends to help them should not be taken seriously.

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Religion is caused by any one or more of about half a dozen mental illnesses.
The truth about religion can be found in these books:

"The Neuropsychological bases of god beliefs" Dr. Michael A. Persinger MD,
psychiatrist 1987 "Religious people are just like my temporal lobe patients"

"The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bi-Cameral Mind" Julian
Jaynes Professor, Harvard University 1976 "Religious people are just like
schizophrenic patients"

"The Psychiatric Interview in Clinical Practice" Roger A. MacKinnon, M.D.,
Robert Michels, M.D. W. B. Saunders Co. 1971 "Religiosity is a common
symptom [of] schizophrenic patients"

"The God delusion" by Richard Dawkins. "Religion is caused by a kind of
computer virus that infects the living computer, the human brain."

"The Science of Good and Evil" by Michael Shermer, 2004 "Morality and Ethics
are now in the jurisdiction of Science and greatly improved thereby."

Many books in the new science called "Sociobiology": Morals and ethics are
instinctive and they evolved.

"God: The Failed Hypothesis" byVictor Stenger Scientific proof that god does
not exist.

"The God Part of the Brain" by Matthew Alper 1996. "The USA is anomolusly
religious because many early founder groups were religiously insane and fleeing
prosecution in Europe. Religion is a genetic disorder."

"The Accidental Mind" by David J. Linden, 2007 Belknap Press of Harvard
University Press. Religion is caused by the extreme klugeyness of the "designed"
by evolution brain. In particular, the narrative creation system cannot be turned
off. It generates false narratives that are believed by the generating person. This is
seen in experiments done in the laboratory. This book has the best explanation of
resistance to evolution: "There has also been an assumption that if one accepts the
idea that life developed without divine intervention, it necessarily follows that all
aspects of religious thought must be rejected. Those who take this line of
argument to extremes argue that when religious thought is rejected moral and
social codes will degenerate and "the law of the jungle" will be all that is left. It is
imagined by religious fundamentalists that those who do not share their particular
religious faith are incapable of leading moral lives." These suppositions are not
true many times over. Linden later mentions that the creationists [intelligent
design advocates] are exactly 180 degrees wrong rather than just a little wrong.
Being exactly wrong, they are unable to unlearn their error. See Sociobiology or
Sciobio.

"Scientists Confront Intelligent Design and Creationism" edited by Petto &
Godfrey, 2007. The ID and creationist crowd are trying to do away with science.
They see science as a "godless religion." The ID and creationist crowd say
training in science is brainwashing. The creationists are seriously mentally ill. It
is religion that is brainwashing.
Nature to get the bugs worked out."

"Manufacturing Belief" by Lewis Wolpert
http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2007/05/15/lewis_wolpert/

"Breaking the Spell: Religion as a Natural Phenomenon", by Daniel Dennett
Let's do scientific research on religion and find out what causes it.

Other authors: Sam Harris, Christopher Hitchens

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To pander to religous groups in the political arena makes me sick. We've had enough of these Jerry Falwells, Pat Robertsons,etc telling their flock how Jesus wants them to vote. I for one consult my personal brain and reason...they tell me, Ron Paul is your only choice.

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