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Mike Huckabee is desperately trying to prove that he has more on the ball than Bush had back in 2000 when he couldn’t name the leader of Pakistan. Talk about setting a low bar for yourself.
So when asked about a foreign policy statement made several months ago that focused more on Pakistan than the then-neocon terrorism target-du jour, Iran, Huckabee insisted that his perspicuity was the result of “prophetic” understanding of our challenges in the “War on Terror”™.
Uh, right. Out of curiosity, was it prophetic when just last week, when asked for a response to Bhutto’s assassination, Huckabee didn’t know that martial law had been lifted and railed about needing the border fence to keep out Pakistani illegals (does he even know where the Pakistan border even is?)?
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I kind of appreciate the writers’ strike, if for no other reason than to avoid this loser getting the infamous “Colbert Bump”.
oh, and first??
burnt @ 1:
he kind of already did.
But Holy Huck knows that once he kills all the Islamofacists that Jebus will be so happy with him that he’ll be rapturified directly to heaven without having to die. And he’ll be able to take his investments with him, since he isn’t dead he can do a direct bank transfer to heaven. He learneded it at Bible Colege [sic], when he became a minister in an _inerrant_ (totally without error) religion.
Prophetic? Kiss my ass, you huckster.
I’m so tired of this piece of crap peddling himself as some sort of divinely inspired Chosen Person.
He’s nothing but a delusional scumbag who has turned religion into snake oil.
Can we have better candidates, please? I feel like I’m 100 yr. old, but some of them used to actually be educated, statesmen, or served this country in some way.
I can’t stand Huckabee, but I also can’t stand spin on THIS site. Nicole Belle says Huckabee “insisted that his perspicuity was the result of “prophetic” understanding…”
No, he didn’t insist on any such thing. He said his comments back then “seem almost prophetic.” Well, considering the NIE report that Iran is no current danger and considering the instability in Pakistan after Bhutto’s assassination, Huckabee’s comments could “seem” “almost” prophetic. I emphasize the two weasel words because they show that Huckabee didn’t INSIST on anything. And considering the Iran/Pakistan development, Huck might’ve been right about focusing on Pakistan more than on Iran.
Please don’t lower this blog to this level of intentional and invalid spin, okay? Don’t twist people’s words to sound worse, okay?
But do be afraid of Huckabee. He is an ignorant, Bible-thumping, Revelation-anticipating, idiot from the South, and we all know what happened the last time one of those was elected.
…seemed like the long way ’round to get the word ‘prophetic’ in [ his writers must be on strike, too ] as that much effort into one of those sub-i-li-bin-all messages ends up revealing it to be so…
“Prophetic?”
Okay. How about for our next president we pick someone who relies a little more on evidence and a little less on revelation and personal hunches?
HA HA … Fence … border … my sides hurt from laughing.
Ignorance and Death … the parents of God.
he’s such an arsehole. I can’t say fairer than that.
I’m sure he speaks to God all the time.
Prophets? He wants to go to heaven and blow all the profits. Well, he’ll have to get in line behind Liberace. I’m not diss’n Liberace. He was great on the piano but he sucked on the organ.
Why, Pakistan shares an eastern border with Afghanistan, of course. Just ask “Gomer” Huckabee.
The republicans will again nominate the stupidest and most corrupt candidate. That would be ah…….
He is a pastor first and foremost
Does Huckabee consider himself a ‘Prophet’, or does he believe a ‘Prophet’ whispers in his ear?
In any event, Huckabee, since you know the future, tell me what you’re gonna do after you lose your ass in the election?
Go back to hustling sheep?
sulphurdunn @ 14:
romney is by far the stupidest and most fake
rudy it the most corrupt
mccain and huckabee would make a good ticket
MyGodBeatsYourGod @ 7:
suh blim uh nuh bul
budda @ 17:
If that happened, Lieberputz would go postal. And McCain would have no one to change his depends.
JasonS @ 8:
I know it’s off topic but that also cuts to the bone with me and some of the Dems…all this talk of ‘hope’, ‘possibilities’, and ‘new beginnings’ rings somewhat as bromides from the other side…we have had too much Tao and not enough Teh, perhaps.
I want a goddamn flowchart from the candidate of his/her plan forward from day friggin’ one. How are you going to repair the damage from this coke-head and his group of war criminals? How are we going to get this nation back from the corporate control we are under? When are we sending the
Bush familyto Mars? The important stuff.I, for one, am happy to see Huck-on-the-Hustings. We need a bit of levity injected into what is otherwise an unimaginably tedious primary campaign season.
What? He’s not kidding? Seriously? Who knew?
I stand corrected.
30 seconds of this is all you need to know. Folksiness and humor…but ohmyGod he is a prophet and will govern based on this. Perhaps he’ll look puty in the eye as well and get to know his soul. . Run away.
Paul B - When you generalize and say things like “idiot from the South”, well, that just makes you look like an idiot. Not to say that the Huckster is not an idiot, he is, but it has nothing to do with where he is from. Idiots abound in this country, North, South, East & West. I can tell you that the people of Arkansas, not the idiot ones, are shocked this fool has gotten this far.
Repulicans keep DRINIKNG the PAT ROBERTSON KOOLAID at camp jesus with X sen foley
all we need know in this fucken country is a another right wing christian X preacher nut job for president..
ha ha h ah ha h
Prophetic my ass. Who is this guy, the great Kreskin? Pathetic is more like it.
Huckster’s use of the word “prophetic” reminds me of Jeanne Dixon’s “prophetic” view of the future when she said Tricky Dicky (that’s Richard Nixon for you younger people) would be viewed in history as one of our greatest presidents.
These fascists live in a different universe.
I’m glad that someone else has made that connection, as I had in this year’s last ACOTW (Huckabee’s #6). This Huckabee guy is such a clueless boob that I’m amazed he doesn’t pronounce his home state ar-KANSAS.
I’ll be going away for a day or two. Enjoy and have a safe and happy New Year, all.
Huckabee isn’t a pastor, or a minister, but I am sure he is a “preacher”. All have different meanings. A pastor guides his flock. a minister comforts his people, a preacher just talks.
there’s Bob Hope and No Hope…
that’s about as much hope as there is of Reverend Simpleton becoming president!
right?
dear Lord, please tell me I’m right
Huck is so wrong the NY Times needs to hire him as a columnist when his campain fails. He can then join William Kristol, whom the Times just hired, and they might prognosticate like a pair of Nostradumbasses.
Here’s a letter to the NY Times:
There is a certain wisdom in the NY Times decision to provide the pulpit impoverished and self publishing “Fox Skews” pundit William Kristol with a column. After all Kristol hasn’t gotten anything right in a very long time and neither has the Times. Maybe two wrongs will make a right!
Both the Times and Kristol are mouth pieces of an ever mendacious and self serving elite that believe that the American Constitution is an obstacle to the New World Order. The Times has even outdone Mr. Kristol in the propaganda department by publishing the purposely erroneous Judith Miller articles on Iraq and being directly involved in the Valerie Plame/Joe Wilson smear.
The Times continues to provide cover for the dirty deeds of the shadow government, the blueprint of which comes from Mr. Cheney’s Project For A New American Century and the David Rockefeller’s CFR. Blackwater may soon replace the National Guard on the streets of American Cities. Will the Times applaude. Mr. Kristol will.
It should also be noted that the Times and Mr. Kristol both are floating their boats on the ocean of blood rising from the unnecessary and artificial conflicts that are being characterized as “a clash of civilizations” by Mr. Kristol and his idiot friends like Samuel Huntington and the other historical Hegelian fools proven oh so (self admittedly) wrong , like Frank Fukuyama.
Yet, being demonstrably wrong has never put a blush on the propagandists - the true believers who beat the drum and murder the innocence of the world. I just point out that with the hiring of Mr. Kristol you leave no doubt that the consolidation of the press under the Dictatorship of Ministry of Information is virtually complete. Once again, I am reminded that there is freedom of the press, but only if you own one. God help this nation if net neutrality is destroyed in accordance with Mr. Kristol’s plans. I await with anticipation the press release that will soon declare Rupert Murdoch to be the new owner of the NY Times.
Free the people now, as John Lennon said. Do it, do it, do it, now…
He attracts the Christian right wingers who voted for bush twice and would a third time if they could. That’s all he has going for him. I watched the entire interview this morning and just shook my head. He really doesn’t know shit from shine-ola.
We don’t need another president who hears voices in his head.
I hereby formally bequeath my name to Huckabee.
Man, his whispering jesus is dumb.
Wow. He even gives “doofus” a bad name. In the words of Bugs Bunny . . . “What a maroon”
6 Paul B. Says:
Hear hear Paul B.
Good god Huckabee is a lunatic.
Did anybody see the Rasmussen poll that has McCain winning nationally… with 17%?!?
Never trust anyone who says that god got them to where they are in the polls. That person is bs-ing you big time.
Tim also ask him about something he said in the 90’s about “taking the country back for Jesus”. Huck said, I was speaking before a large christian organizational gathering so you would expect I would say something like that at a gathering like that.
What it says is that he speaks the words his audience wants to hear, not what he truly feels.
When a religious fundamentalist who is running for President calls himself “almost prophetic”, that is a serious red flag.
Crisco.
I am reminded of a scene out of the excellent SF series, ‘Babylon 5,’ in which one character comments on current events by noting they are, “… just as prophecy foretold.”
To which his superior replies, “Prophecy is a poor guide to action, because you cannot tell if it is true until the events are upon you. And then it is too late.”
Far more sensible people were asking, ‘What About Pakistan?’ when the Bush crowd was having apocalyptic dreams about Iraq. No prophecy needed, just focusing on the tested, deployable weapons in close proximity to the Taliban and al-Qaeda.
I have a serious question here. Suppose one of these right wing assholes is outside giving a speech to their thralls and lightning strikes them after they say God chose them to be president (or senator, governor, school board chief ,etc…).
Do you think then they would wake up and realize that God isn’t a card carrying member of the GOP, or would they just stay on the familiar path of ‘toopid?
I didn’t know that the War on Terror was a trademark.
Who owns it?
Tom A. @ 26:
Well, Dicky is still probably the greatest Republican President since Eisenhower. Not exactly a high bar to be sure, or even a bar that can be seen through the mud. And Ford and Bush the elder, for all their complete lack of greatness were–unlike Reagan and Bush the younger–much more innocuous than Nixon. But, in retrospect, Jeanne’s prediction is, rather sadly, not quite as ridiculous as it once seemed. If you’re a Republican partisan baby-boomer who didn’t drink the Reagan Kool-Aid, Nixon’s a reasonable choice as greatest President of your adult lifetime.
Why don’t we put political parties aside and vote as patriots for the betterment of our country.i know ron paul is running as a republican,but he’s really a libertarian constitutionalist.If we could just put our differences aside and vote for Ron,we might have a chance to save our nation.Folks it’s that serious.He is the only one that tells the truth and isn’t a fake christian for the N.W.O.
Tricia @ 43:
I think it’s co-owned by Raytheon, General Electric, and McDonnell Douglas. Kinda the way KFC and Pizza Hut all share Taco Bell…
Well, Nixon wasn’t stupid and he was an environmentalist so he wasn’t a complete moral failure but God, it saddens me that he could legitimately be considered one of the greatest of my lifetime. I’m sixty - ok, now I’m depressed, is it too early for a cocktail?
If they weren’t f*cking with the future of this once great nation, this whole repug desperation for a successor to the idiot in the WH today would be funny.
However, they are washed up, and the best they can do is shove all these fragment idiots into the spot light. They know they are washed up. I just hope the American public wake up and put them out with the trash.
“God told me the people should buy a Total Gym and they told me I should endorse you”-Chuck Norris to Huck
his name is huck.
huck huckabee.
and he’s a jesus man.
and a chuck norris man!
Whenever I hear these jerks talk about being led by prophesy and divine inspiration and the like, I’m reminded of the time the President of a company we were working with, who was notorious for bazaar decisions, offered that those decisions were almost always based on said inspiration, to which one of our guys retorted…’We understand and appreciate that, we just wish God knew more about the (’fill in the blank’) business.’
HulksHeroes @ 48:
Ditto….None of these damn idiots stands a real chance….”what this election need’s is an enema”