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Huckabee: Amend Constitution to be in 'God's standards'

Posted Tuesday, January 15, 2008. — 26 comments

This video is from MSNBC's Morning Joe, broadcast January 15, 2008.

"I have opponents in this race who do not want to change the Constitution," Huckabee told a Michigan audience on Monday. "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 that's what we need to do -- to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards so it lines up with some contemporary view." -- Mike Huckabee

26 Comments:

2Bornot2B said...

In my humble opinion, we are seriously f**ked if he is elected.

January 15, 2008

Astreja said...

I'm going to go out on a limb here and predict that Huckabee will in fact *not* be elected. I'm confident that the average, sane American (hi, neighbour!) simply does not trust him and will opt for a less fanatical candidate.

January 15, 2008

Bob said...

And does he have a direct line to "god", so he knows the god standards?

Would this be the OT god or the NT god?

Hopefully he won't even make it to the convention. Hard to understand how he got this far.

January 15, 2008

Deadly Johnny said...

I hope and pray that Huckabee will get elected as our next President. We should have a President who will uphold God's righteousness in this country. Wake up Americans, let us elect Huckabee as our next President.

January 15, 2008

Walter said...

I sincerely hope this G-D jackass does not get elected.

Brain Dead Johnny House go slay a goat for jebus will ya, yas asswipe.

January 15, 2008

Jackie said...

scaaary! Even when I was a christian I wouldn't have voted for him because even then, I understood that not everyone in this country was of the same faith as myself. Now I realize even more why someone like this has no business in office. Didn't Bush say God told him to go to war?
I agree with astretja. I think the devoted ones are few and far between. I would hope... yikes.

January 15, 2008

Anonymous said...

Hickabee got this far because of the corn-fed home-schooling farmer's-wife vote in Iowa. I can't see how it can go much further - can you imagine MA, NY or CA voting him up? It's absolutely laughable. Hickabee has also isolated the half of the Republican party who are very rich, but not necessarily very religious- you may recall his railing against "Wall Street". Home schoolers may look at Hickabee and see their own reflection, but many rich Republicans look at him and see a religious fanatic who has no business experience or acumen. They would rather vote for a squillionaire Mormon who has some chance of knowing how to run a mega-trillion-dollar economy.

January 15, 2008

Phant said...

Huckabee is just like the rest of these crooked politicians.

He uses God and religion to gain political ground and get votes from people who are stupid enough to believe what he says.

As for Deadly Johnny, I think his post was more less a sarcastic joke.

January 16, 2008

SpaceMonk said...

With lines like that I don't think he'll get elected, or at least I hope he wouldn't.

If he does there will be a second civil war, or at least I hope there would be.

January 16, 2008

Jim Earl said...

I don't see how anyone elected could be any worst than Bush. We can only improve. That said, Huckabee is by far the most dangerous of the repugs running. I can't see him winning enough support from moderates to be a serious contender.

I also can't see Christians electing Mitt Romney. He is well outside of the Christian mainstream. John McCain is the likely choice to lose to the democrats. Jim Earl

January 16, 2008

stronger now said...

I hope someone will get Huckabee to make a longwinded speech that further exposes his idiocy, a la Romney.

Sick 'em, hitchens!

January 16, 2008

notabarbie said...

The living god? Did he say the LIVING god??!! What god would that be? What happened to the separation of church and state? I agree with the anony. poster, there's no way that will fly in NY or CA. If he got elected...geez...

January 16, 2008

lightofreason said...

Huckabee is not like the rest of the crooked politicians in one important way. He actually and truly believes like a fundy. He isn't using religion to simply gain votes. He really is that religious.

Take a look at his track record as governor of Arkansas. He managed to get a constitutional amendment in the state against same-sex marriage, has made it more difficult to obtain abortions, and completely eradicated no-fault divorces in the state.

This is what scares me about him. I'd be far less scared if he were simply using religion the way other republicans have in the past.

January 16, 2008

Anonymous said...

Just what we need..another religious nutcase in the White House. I hope the citizenry have the sense to boot this moron.

January 16, 2008

Anonymous said...

Plus he's already promised to send the Islam fundamentalist extremists to the "Gates of Hell" -- his exact words!

January 16, 2008

leotracks said...

I agree with all the above. However, there are times when I think that, perhaps, the only way forward is to let these bible-thumping morons move things to the next step.

SpaceMonk suggested that such a nut might spark a civil war--one might hope. And part of me would actually like to see that happen. I believe that most xians are on the fence; they claim christianity more out of habit and sentimentality than any real conviction. If these Americans were to be told they must attend Sunday services, must give proper tithings, must marry the opposite sex once and only once, can no longer enjoy beer or trashy television, then their devotion to xianity would fall quickly.

Furthermore, I think America is broken, and our only hope is that we may someday rise from the ashes. On the whole, we are a lazy, spoiled, illiterate nation of selfish bastards who do nothing but consume around the clock. We believe whatever appeals to our animal instincts, to any 30 second, easy to remember, slogan we hear on tv, and question nothing.

Ok, I've been drinking. Perhaps I should just take a nap.

Cheers.

--Brent S.

January 16, 2008

Hate to say it folks, but......... said...

I think America will one day fall to another nation or a combination of several other nations teaming up to defeat us once and for all.

It won't happen anytime soon, however I think in time it will happen.

America is the "U.S.A. TITANIC", and it's only a matter of time before it strikes that ice berg.

January 17, 2008

Anonymous said...

Why has this comment about wanting to change the constitution not made it out to the general public?
Huckabee said it two days ago and it has not hit national news yet. Doesn't anybody in America care about separation of church and state anymore. Do we want to live in a theocracy like Iraq and Iran.

January 17, 2008

Ricky said...

Hey, I say he didn't go far enough. We should go full-on Shariah, where we stone adulturers (i.e. homosexuals) in the streets. That'll bring back family values...

January 17, 2008

Ricky said...

Oh, and I forgot to mention that we must add rape victims to the "adulturers" category, as they bring shame upon their fathers' houses.

January 17, 2008

jimearl said...

Brent S. writes:

Furthermore, I think America is broken, and our only hope is that we may someday rise from the ashes. On the whole, we are a lazy, spoiled, illiterate nation of selfish bastards who do nothing but consume around the clock. We believe whatever appeals to our animal instincts, to any 30 second, easy to remember, slogan we hear on tv, and question nothing.

Hey Brent, this sounds just like me, except for the question part!

I believe that this election will show just how stupid and backward this nation really is. I hope I'm wrong but I doubt it.

Now where the hell is that remote.....Jim Earl

January 17, 2008

leotracks said...

Annon. said...

Why has this comment about wanting to change the constitution not made it out to the general public?
Huckabee said it two days ago and it has not hit national news yet. Doesn't anybody in America care about separation of church and state anymore. Do we want to live in a theocracy like Iraq and Iran.

The problem with so many American is that they do not realize theocracy is the problem, they think non christianity is the problem in those counties. They think that any system that imposes their beliefs is a good one, because they are right and the rest if us are wrong. Intelligent people question themselves, thus allowing them to grow; simple-minded hicks relax, knowing they have everything right, and they never progress.

Unfortunately, most Americans are the latter, and where the hell is that iceberg anyway?

Cheers
--Brent S.

January 17, 2008

exfundie said...

WTF!!! How is it that those news personalities only had that little to say in response! Our founding fathers would be horrified at the thought of this religious nutcase saying what he said! I can't stand Mike Huckabee. Every time he speaks somewhere, he cracks some stupid joke that I heard my old Baptist pastor tell every Sunday from the pulpit. I'm thinking this Obama gentleman (though not my first choice) may be our only viable chance. C'mon people, let's think it into existence!

January 17, 2008

Anonymous said...

Politics is almost as scary as religion. The two together are truly frightening.

Please don't vote for any overtly religious candidate. I'd rather see an ex-con in office.

January 17, 2008

Anonymous said...

It is really sad to see how people are ignorant of the reality we are living these days. Religious leaders are trying to convince the people in this country that what we need is a "theocracy" ...the form of government in which their "god" or deity gives or will give them the secret message or revelation to rule according to his/her/its will. What people (particularly xtians) seem to ignore is that a theocracy is a form of "dictatorship." The religious leaders think they are the only ones who should have the power to run this nation. There may be resistance to any change of any kind because they say the rules were made by their "god" and should not change for any reason... just like some countries in the Middle East and North Africa. Xtians, open your eyes! Do NOT go back to the Middle Ages!!!

January 18, 2008

Epicurienne said...

I hate F*ckabee with a passion. If he's elected, hopefully some parts of the country will just refuse outright to go along with his program. That way, I'll have a place to refugee to that won't involve getting a passport.

January 20, 2008

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