Mike Huckabee Last Night
Like Mollie, I like to ruminate on speeches just a little. And in the sober light of morning, this passage from Mike Huckabee's speech strikes me just the same way it struck me last night: as magnificent.
Let me clear the air about whether guys like me would only support an evangelical. Of the four people on the two tickets, the only self-professed evangelical is Barack Obama, and he supports changing the definition of marriage, believes that human life is disposable and expendable at any time in the womb or even beyond the womb, and tells people of faith that they must bow their knees to the god of government and violate their faith and conscience in order to comply with what he calls health care… The attack on my Catholic brothers and sisters is an attack on me....This isn't a battle about contraceptives and Catholics, but of conscience and the Creator. I care far less as to where Mitt Romney takes his family to church than I do about where he takes this country.
What we have here is a consummately skilled orator, engaging in an act of political generosity--if Huckabee had gotten into the primary fight in Iowa, Romney would have been unlikely to have been delivering an acceptance speech tonight--and of determined, considered patriotism.
I don't know Mike Huckabee. But I'd like to shake his hand.
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Jul '12
Re: Mike Huckabee Last Night
I was wrong about Mr. Huckabee. Mea Culpa
Apr '11
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Thought his entire speech was well done, well presented.
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I have a question about this line, though. What does he mean when he says Obama is a self-professed evangelical? I'm a religion reporter and I don't recall him ever professing as much. What am I missing?
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Baptist ministers are like trial lawyers -- good on their feet. Huckabee is the evangelical Chris Christie.
May '11
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Mollie, I think what Huck was saying is that O. is an evangelical leader in the church of "Big Government".
Sep '10
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I think the term of art is "evangelical marxist".
Apr '11
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It was very fun but felt kinda slick to me. All those rhymes and things. He was a minister, a governor, a very smart guy - this is what he does. I expected no less.
But I have Charismatic Evangelical friends who know many people who planned on staying home over voting for a Mormon. (at least, a few months ago) I am sure those people were listening. I am sure they heard what he was saying. "It's OK, you're allowed to do this, its the right thing".
Apr '11
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If you thought Huckabee was good wait until tonight when Clint Eastwood tells Obama to, "Get off my lawn!"
Jun '12
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Obama would claim to be a Christian from a protestant denomination, that would be enough to support at least one definition of evangelical christian.
Feb '11
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I've seen Mr. Huckabee on his Fox Sat. evening program a number of times over the last few years, and last night's speech was no surprise. He has been very clear about where he stands, and where the Country was headed under Obama's administration.....it's time for Americans to wake up to the reality of what Obama meant when he said, in 2008, “We are going to fundamentally change America.”
To expect anything different, if Obama was to be re-elected, is purely incomprehensible!!
Aug '11
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Of course, even if Obama himself never made a clear claim on evangelicalism, his followers will tell you that he is most definitely an evangelical -- even if they say it only to deflect criticism that he's a secret Muslim.
Dec '11
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Does the trinity baptist church fall within the evangelical movement?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelicalism
Ryan and biden are catholics, while Romney is a mormon. which leaves Obama as the soul protestant.
May '11
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I haven't changed my opinion about him, but I'm glad he proved my personal disgust at seeing him on the schedule for a prime-time speaking slot completely unfounded. It was nice to have his toned-down populist preacher act on the side of the good and right for a change.
Now if he finally convinces Akin to get out of the MO-SEN race, rather than feed the delusion then someone should shake his hand.
Jun '10
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I agree. An excellent speech, and a uniting moment. The party is doing all the right things.
Jun '12
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Peter Robinson
What we have here is a consummately skilled orator, engaging in an act of political generosity--if Huckabee had gotten into the primary fight in Iowa, Romney would have been unlikely to have been delivering an acceptance speech tonight--and of determined, considered patriotism.
I don't know Mike Huckabee. But I'd like to shake his hand. · · 2 hours ago
Mr Robinson, You are much kinder to Huckabee than us. If not for Huckabee, we probably wouldn't have McCain in 2008. The attacks he did to Mitt Romney in '08 were really distasteful, riding on his own evangelical high horse. However, he does seem to have gained political insight since and last night was a chance for him to atone his past mistakes?
Jun '12
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I can just see the entire convention taking a bow in closing to Thank Obama for unity. :D
Edited on August 30, 2012 at 6:28pmJan '11
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Peter Robinson column? Check!
Cheap unnecessary anti-Romney invective? Check!
:( <---- Me? Check!
Count me with "Created or Saved" #13
Jul '10
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Jeremiah Wright is the pastor emeritus of Trinity Unity Church of Christ. That is Obama's avowed church. It is an evangelical church by all definitions - it's just that Wright is way off the playing field of most evangelicals.
May '11
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No way. Huckabee would have been crushed just as everyone else was crushed.
I don't much care for Romney, though he's growing on me, but I think few people would support Hucksterbee except for some Christians, and by no means all of them. He knows that too.
May '10
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Created Or Saved: I haven't changed my opinion about him, but I'm glad he proved my personal disgust at seeing him on the schedule for a prime-time speaking slot completely unfounded. It was nice to have his toned-down populist preacher act on the side of the good and right for a change.
Now if he finally convinces Akin to get out of the MO-SEN race, rather than feed the delusion then someone should shake his hand. · 1 hour ago
You read my mind...