McCain re-re-re packaging himself; Huckabee trying to keep some of his history out of his packaging; Oprah trying to sound "ghetto" to help with Obama's packaging; "Mit" rearranging his package (no pun intended) weekly. Hell, after Iowa, Hillary is probably trying to figure out how to change her package to become a black male; or, at least, to sound like one.

Apparently, elections are all about packaging now; if one package doesn't garner enough votes, then jettison or change some "heart-felt beliefs," insert some new "heart-felt beliefs," and alter the package until enough people sign on. And if the right package can be maintained, or tweaked, for long enough, then – hey! – you'll be elected president!

(And, as we've seen with Bush, the people won't find out who they really elected until it's too late.)

It's going to take more than the Iowa Caucus to overcome the Cult of Personality to which we're addicted, even if – and this is a big "if" – Iowa was more than a manipulated popularity contest itself. What was it that has been said about Washington? That it is Hollywood for ugly people? Uh, huh ... And never more than during a presidential election.

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"Kook" is the wrong word. Try "psychopath" and
"schizophrenic" and "temporal lobe patient" and every other word
you can think of as a synonym for crazy.

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.

Electing Huckabee would be a jump from the proverbial
frying pan into the fire.

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As a sophomore undergraduate student in Physics, your homework may include
figuring out when the second coming would be required, assuming that the bible
was 100% true in the year zero. That is, when would the bible be down to 50%
true? The popular and professors' answer in 1965 was the year 500. The true
answer: A friend of mine was born and raised in Budapest, Hungary. As an adult,
he came here and stayed. After 25 years, he visited his home town of Budapest.
He was unable to communicate with his high school classmates because the
Hungarian language had changed so much. The correct answer is less than 25
years. The first gospel was not written down until 50 years after the alleged
events and then in a different language. The people who told the story were at
about the same level of civilization as "wild Indians", I mean Native Americans
before Columbus got here. We have all played or seen played the game called
"Telephone" in which a story is passed down a line of re-tellers. By the Sixth re-
telling, the story has no resemblance to the original. The gospel story had to have
been re-told at least 6 times before it was mis-translated the first time. [Note that
whoever wrote it down the first time was free to write whatever he wanted to.
The storytellers were illiterate and unable to check his written text by reading it.
Besides that, he wrote in Greek rather than Aramaic.] Conclusion: There is no
truth anywhere in the bible, and there never was. There is no way to know what
"jesus" or "mohammed" or any other such character actually said or did.

ALL of the jurisdictions that were formerly in the jurisdiction of religion have
been taken over by Science. There is no longer a need to debate the issue.
Religion is an unfortunate side effect of a major and ongoing step in evolution.
[Not that evolution has a predetermined direction. We could devolve, but we have
to get over religion or go extinct. "God" will not save us from the consequences
of global warming or an asteroid impact or a tornado because there is no such
critter as "god.".] Notice that if Huckabee tried to pray the damage undone in
Arkadelphia, it didn't work. Did Huckabee conclude that Arkadelphians had
sinned?
Ethics and morality are instinctive, not derived from religion. Female instinct has
greater force in morality than male instinct because the female is in command of
the sexual encounter. Look up "Sociobiology". The origin of the Universe is the
subject of Cosmology which is part of astronomy which is part of the science of
physics.
Religion is a SCAM. ANY religion, there are 10,000 to choose from at any one
time. People keep inventing new religions [for the benefit of the "prophet," of
course] and forgetting other religions. ALL preachers, priests, imams, rabbis,
iatolas, etc. belong in jail for "grand theft, bunko type". Huckabee belongs in jail,
not the Whitehouse. Huckabee is a pure charlatan.

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Mike Huckabee is more dangerous than George W. Bush. If Mike Huckabee
becomes president, he could cause the collapse of civilization. See "The Long
Summer" by Brian Fagan. Climate change has caused the collapse of many
civilizations, and is well on the way to causing the collapse of our civilization.
Religion has contributed to the collapse of many civilizations in the past.
Christianity contributed to the collapse of the Greenland Viking civilization
according to "Collapse, How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed" by Jared
Diamond. Religious extremism is an indication that civilization is about to
collapse. In order to avoid collapse, we need to do the opposite of what Huckabee
advocates. We need to abandon old values that will lead us to make global
warming worse, and accept new values that will stop and reverse global warming.
Drastic action is required to prevent us humans from going extinct according to
"Six Degrees" by Mark Lynos.

Notice that the Mayor of Atlanta's prayers did not work. Huckabee will not be
able to conjure up a god to help end the drought either, because there is no god.
Greece, Turkey, the Sahel, China and California are also having the same drought.
The only cure is to put the climate back the way it was before we messed with
Mother Nature. If we keep on obeying old christian values like trying to "subdue
the earth," the drought will only get worse. The next dust bowl will be far worse
than the last one. YOU will be among those who starve. Nature cannot be fooled
or subdued, not even by Huckabee.

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won't be what we hear in New Hampshire. The East Coast speech is not the real Huck. He does his best to sound like regular a guy but he's an arch conservative with very rigid ways. With all due respect to religion the White House is not for preaching. Thanks, ANNA

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