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(I)n Warren, Michigan on Monday, Huckabee declared his personal crusade to amend the Constitution by copying and pasting from the Bible:
“I have opponents in this race who 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 thats what we need to do is amend the Constitution so it’s in God’s standards rather than trying 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.”
In case there was any remaining doubt, that astounding statement eviscerated Huckabee’s pretense of upholding the separation of church and state. In December, Governor Huckabee offered this charade on Meet the Press, words which obviously are no longer operative:
“The key issue of real faith is that it never can be forced on someone. And never would I want to use the government institutions to impose mine or anybody else’s faith or to restrict.”
As it turns out, using the institutions of government to impose his faith is exactly what Mike Huckabee has in mind. Quick to denounce sharia law and “Islamofascism,” Huckabee is seems quite eager to embrace a Christian version of God’s law here at home.
Please. Make. It. Stop. I hate to break it to the Huckster, but the Middle Ages weren’t really that much fun. Why is it that the Republican Party seems to want to force us all back there?
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“Faith-based” Constitution?
Hasn’t this ass ever heard that no two people interpet God the same way?
Wow, the Huckster’s really gone ’round the bend this time. Can’t wait to see of the MM has anything to report.
How about God and the Constitution just leaving each other the fuck alone?
You’ve got to the give the guy credit for being honest about what he thinks. He’s honest, scary as hell, but honest.
Harvard divinity graduate below nailed it !!!
American Fascists: The Christian Right and the War On America
by Chris Hedges
Author: Chris Hedges is a Harvard Divinity School graduate, a veteran New York Times foreign correspondent and author of the National Book Award finalist for “War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning” and author of “Losing Moses on the Freeway”,
(Also his father was a Presbyterian pastor)
Book Description
Twenty-five years ago, when Pat Robertson and other radio and televangelists first spoke of the United States becoming a Christian nation that would build a global Christian empire, it was hard to take such hyperbolic rhetoric seriously. Today, such language no longer sounds like hyperbole but poses, instead, a very real threat to our freedom and our way of life. In American Fascists, Chris Hedges, veteran journalist and author of the National Book Award finalist War Is a Force That Gives Us Meaning, challenges the Christian Right’s religious legitimacy and argues that at its core it is a mass movement fueled by unbridled nationalism and a hatred for the open society.
Hedges, who grew up in rural parishes in upstate New York where his father was a Presbyterian pastor, attacks the movement as someone steeped in the Bible and Christian tradition. He points to the hundreds of senators and members of Congress who have earned between 80 and 100 percent approval ratings from the three most influential Christian Right advocacy groups as one of many signs that the movement is burrowing deep inside the American government to subvert it. The movement’s call to dismantle the wall between church and state and the intolerance it preaches against all who do not conform to its warped vision of a Christian America are pumped into tens of millions of American homes through Christian television and radio stations, as well as reinforced through the curriculum in Christian schools. The movement’s yearning for apocalyptic violence and its assault on dispassionate, intellectual inquiry are laying the foundation for a new, frightening America.
American Fascists, which includes interviews and coverage of events such as pro-life rallies and weeklong classes on conversion techniques, examines the movement’s origins, its driving motivations and its dark ideological underpinnings. Hedges argues that the movement currently resembles the young fascist movements in Italy and Germany in the 1920s and ’30s, movements that often masked the full extent of their drive for totalitarianism and were willing to make concessions until they achieved unrivaled power. The Christian Right, like these early fascist movements, does not openly call for dictatorship, nor does it use
physical violence to suppress opposition. In short, the movement is not yet revolutionary. But the ideological architecture of a Christian fascism is being cemented in place. The movement has roused its followers to a fever pitch of despair and fury. All it will take, Hedges writes, is one more national crisis on the order of September 11 for the Christian Right to make a concerted drive to destroy American democracy. The movement awaits a crisis. At that moment they will reveal themselves for what they truly are — the American heirs to fascism. Hedges issues a potent, impassioned warning. We face an imminent threat. His book reminds us of the dangers liberal, democratic societies face when they tolerate the intolerant.
don’t any of these fuckers understand the separation of church and state?
Sort of a response.
I live in CT. Not a Godless state, but an empty place, which is cold psychicly and literally, and a place filled with both poor persons and rich, educated persons.
People from the South and elsewhere in the U.S. instinctively dislike this place.
I dislike the Bible Belt (as a region, not as to each person).
Huckabee knows how to drive wedges. He has many opportunities.
Let Huckabee go up on a mountain–they have some in Arkansas–with a copule of stone tablets, and wait for God to send down the new, revised U.S. Constitution.
If only.
Shouldn’t this automatically disqualify him?
sheer lunacy.
What’s wrong with you folks? Here’s the Compelling Case For Huckabee’s Proposal to Import the Bible Into the Constitution
Well, this is actually working out great (for us, anyway).
The higher-up republicans hate, hate Huckabee; Chuck Norris be damned. I made a saying that seems to fit the big Repub leadership (those that have and throw the big money) well in regards to Huckabee:
“(Republican) Evangelicals are supposed to get out the vote, not be the vote.”
Most of the folks who are “I’m Republican only because it makes me money” or “I’m Republican because they are more bribable than Dems” are cringing at this guy’s words, considering that it’s making the thinking Republicans (yes, they do exist, see the above two categories) run like hell.
Also, there aren’t that damn many people who’d want the Bible (more than likely the Old Testament) instead of the constitution, because it’s been proven that when it’s The Bible/Church vs. sex, sex always wins in the end.
Eight or nine times out of ten, this is the case when you ask people randomly.
cHuckabee electorally is toast (and Popey…er, McCain is built up), or the delegates will go into mass chaos at the RNC convo in Minnesota.
Trashing the Constitution already. w set a fine example for more of this crap.
Geez.
If that’s what the fucking moron wants, he needs to buy an island and promote himself to Asshole in Chief. Then he can have his faith based constitution.
What a c**t.
:roll:
VietVet8666 @ 7:
you got that right…..and he’s using all of them…………and then some.this is so far out in left field…..it’s come full circle…back to right field
What bizarre lengths these people will go to just to have their name in the Bible.
We need to amend the Constitution to prevent idiots like the Huckster from becoming President…
I just hope that Red Lobster has lobbyists ready to pounce on this. If eating shellfish becomes outlawed, they are screwed.
Huckabust is pulling out all the stops……..He’s Going For The Gold…..geeeezzz…fuckin mental case.And the scary part is……there is a % of the population that thinks he’s right.sheer lunacy.
Don’t diss the Middle Ages! The witch-burnings didn’t really start until the Reformation. Before then, it was heretic-killing Crusades and Heathen conversions for Jayzus. ;)
God preserve us, this ape is dumber than the sheep at the Lafayette Zoo. I guess the names Cromwell, Hong Ziquan, Calvin, Mather, Torquemada, and Charlemagne mean nothing to him.
Ouch !! Cuts right thru the con-gobbledegook haze
Bill Mahr agrees with you !
video clip
http://www.crooksandliars.com/.....y-falwell/
Bill Maher’s Touching Tribute to Jerry Falwell
Maher pays his respects to the late Christian leader.
“I know you’re not supposed to speak ill of the dead, but I think we can make an exception because speaking ill of the dead was kind of Jerry Falwell’s hobby.”
This is a case why human being should come to grips with the importance of evolution. After that, it will be easier to come to terms with social evolution and drop the magic and mythology. There are arguments for its need to get society started, but now it parallels dangerous at the level of swimming in ones own poo. Some will get upset at that comment, bu it is no different than Voltaire articulated in “Cancide” 250 years ago. Its not good as a species to be individualy evolved and socially primitive. Remember, Plato, Buddha, and many others have been individualy evolved well over 2,500 years ago, but their socities all collapsed.
The Islamo-fascists will never get a foothold in this country whereas the Christo-fascists are here and entrenched. The Christo-fascists like Huckabee and his supporters pose the greatest threat to this country, it’s constitution and individual liberties, than any other threat in the world at home and abroad. #1 threat to America are the “Christian” extemists.
Because that was the era of lords and serfs and peasants. And the rich ruled by their own decree, and the poor did what they were told. Or else.
Sounds like a Republican Neo-Con wet dream to me.
Why does he say change it to the word of a living god? Did the other one die? Have they got a new one now?
Obligatory paraphrase:
Nobody expects the
SpanishI would prefer that they not destroy the most important piece of literature mankind has ever written. Nothing has been the cause of more good or more freedom in the world than the US Constitution.
When I hear people use the phrase “thank a veteran for freedom” I shudder. Soldiers defend the Constitution. The Constitution guarantees freedom. When you right discrimination into that document then it has lost it’s meeting.
Who’s God is the right one?
reichwing nut fuck-everything-up suck jesus
christiansthey can’t get anything right….are rewriting history to suit their needs…..and…….
they constantly are putting words into “god’s mouth”. now the fascists want to rewrite the constitution. why don’t they just go somewhere else and start their own country.
Fuck the Huck.
Its obvious now…
I live in Michigan and I crossed over and voted for Huckabee today.
This crap needs the light of day and the spotlight of the real presidential campaign. There are lot of people, including a lot of people who go to church every week, who are fed up with the Christian right-wing.
Can’t you just hear the gasp across America when Huckabee admits that he thinks humans and dinosaurs were playmates about 5,500 years ago?
Ya know…this is waaay past being funny.
Delete my post if you must…but ya know what…what the FUCK is wrong with this country?!?!
Fucking ignorant bastards. We deserve everything that happens to us.
WHEN FACISM COMES TO THESE SHORES IT WILL COME WRAPPED IN THE FLAG CARRYING A BIBLE.
You gotta see Bill Mahr skit on doin’ the evangelical weather man..PRICELESS !!!
Real Time with Bill Maher: Acu-Wrath Weather Forcast!
http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/video/
Bill Mahr as evangelical weather man.
Once you are at his HBO video webpage,
there are 3 separate video catagories to choose from.
Go down to the 3rd “Opening Sketch” pop down menu category.. you’ll find it there
It’s the first choice once you pull down video menu
http://www.hbo.com/billmaher/video/
MSNBC sucks….Joe Scarborough, Mika Brzezinski, and Willie Geist all made it seem so light on “Morning Joe” regarding Huckabee’s sentiments over the constitution. Scarborough is an asshole. So too is Matthews and Tucker Carlson has no brain at all. MSNBC has sucked for a long time anyhow now….
Keith Olbermann is not so “great” either.
Keith Olbermann constantly has the likes of Howard Feinman, Richard Wolff, Andrea Mitchell, and Dana Milbank, on his show. Thus, Olbermann has the same Washington insider jerks that keep showing up on all the other crappy MSNBC shows. Other than his “Special Comments” Olbermann’s “Countdown” show is not so wonderful.
When will Keith Olbermann put Chris Matthews, Tucker Carlson, and Joe Scarborough, Andrea Mitchell, Norah O’Donnell, Tim Russert, and Willie Geist in the “Worst Persons” Category? If he has any “journalistic” integrity, the time is up already!
Even Christ advocated the separation of church and state. Or perhaps Mike Huckabee thinks Christ was being deceptive when he said: My kingdom is not of this earth. Christ the Redeemer has been usurped by Huckabee’s Christ, Christ the Deceiver. Who was it who warned us against false prophets?
It’s his good old down home boy personality that charms people into thinking he’s just one of them.
They have been talking about what he said about the constitution a lot today on MSNBC. So it’s getting out there a little bit.
The fact that he even made it this far in the campaign is frightening as hell, to me.
Mike is simply ON HIS KNEES and suckin that golden prong of the religious right. It is obvious that this JUDAS speaks out of ANY ORIFICE that will influence a vote.
I’m guessing that this will barely make a ripple in the MSM.
How come you can say something like this with no repercussions, but if you look for sex in a mensroom, its political suicide?
Liberal AND Proud @ 31:
This country needs a leader. A leader who will lead all those who feel as you (and I) feel to a place, like South Dakota, where such persons can work and agree to create a better society.
The internet age makes this possible.
chimpy the nitwit opened the door to this radical christianity,. we must get out and stop this nut.
So I guess we’ll be sacrificing pigs and goats when the economic numbers look bad, and if the Dow tanks then we start sacrificing virgins.
“Why is it that the Republican Party seems to want to force us all back there?” Ummm so they can control us through fear?
And people ask me why I hate Republican…why do I say Republicans are the enemy of America.
A Huck-a-Buck? Who’s god are you going to put in charge of America? what flavor of Christianity will hold the legislating power? Are you going to include heretics like Jews and Muslims in or are we going to the gas chambers?
This man is unfit to be a political leader in the United States and is clueless about equality in a democracy.
His statement shows a desire to undermine the constitution of the United States and should be responded to for what it is: treasonous!
pissed off patricia @ 36:
No, it is a measure of the intellectual capacity of the American public.
Will someone please kick this boob off the bus?
Put him and us out of some misery?
Not to mention free up a lot of ‘god’s’ time, so ‘he’ can concentrate on meaningful crap.
Like determining whether the Pope really ‘SUX’, and what the meaning of ‘SUX’ is.
Where are the stories about Kucinich and the Nevada debate. Who needs the MSM when even our progressive blogs only cover HC, BO and JE. Way to go Dennis!
unfuckingbelievable…………….no really.sad
If Keith Olbermann has any “journalistic” integrity, then, Mike Huckabee belongs in the “Worst Persons” category tonight!!!!!!!
John @ 24:
dadams @ 28: