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Date: December 17th, 2007, Filed under Mike Huckabee

Slinging the Mud at Mike Huckabee is becoming easier than ordering a value meal at McDonald’s. Every day that passes, there’s new news on more terrible activities in the supposed pastor’s past. Make note not of the words of a Christian, but of their actions. Judge them not, but do remember that politicians that perform deeds contrary to their words do not change. Don’t give Huckabee the reward of Presidency, or even support, if the man has a past like he alledgely does.

Today’s Huckabee mud slinging covers one pardon out of 1000 that he gave, this one over a 4-time drunk driver. From the National Review:

The question is if there was there a connection between his wife Glenda Fields’s five-figure political donations and Huckabee’s action. On April 14, 2004, then-Gov. Huckabee commuted the sentence of Mr. Fields — then a four-time driving-while-intoxicated offender — granting him early release from prison. Fields, a resident of the western Arkansas town of Van Buren, was a habitual offender. He had already been convicted of DWIs in 1996, 1998, and 2000, but his 2001 felony-DWI conviction resulted in the maximum six-year prison sentence and a $5,000 fine.

The political contributions by the Fields family — large by Arkansas standards — went unreported at the time Huckabee granted Eugene Fields executive clemency. The size of the donations places the Fields family in the top tier of the state GOP’s donors, alongside Arkansas aristocracy like the scions of the Fords and Stephens families. Both Scott Ford, CEO of Alltel, and Warren Stephens, CEO of Stephens, Inc., gave the Arkansas Republican party $10,000 in 2003.

And this is a man who Christians admire? The enemies of faith know the words to say better than the protectors of it. I’m not surprised that many of my Christian friends admire Huckabee, since he was a pastor and a governor and proclaims God as his main supporter. Of course, I recall that Jesus was offered the role of political leader by the Enemy, and he declined it. I wouldn’t be so fast to proclaim that God supports me when the only Biblical relevancy we have in the New Testament is in a chapter regarding the Enemy.

I surely won’t support Huckabee, and I hope I get to sling new mud at you tomorrow.

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Date: December 17th, 2007, Filed under Mike Huckabee

According to a December 14th, 2007 Politico.com article:

Mike Huckabee accepted more than 90 gifts from 21 Arkansans he appointed to state posts during his decade as governor, a Politico analysis of state public records found.

Since he set his sights on the White House, those supporters, their families and their companies have kept on giving. They contributed nearly $161,000 to a pre-presidential campaign account and Huckabee’s official campaign committee since late last year, according to state and federal campaign finance records.

Gifts are something someone gives with no intention of getting anything back in return. A gift is usually given within family, but it is also common for friends to give gifts for celebratory reasons. Employers give gifts as a thank you for a job well done.

When someone offers an item to a member of government, it is never a gift. If that person receives benefits after the giving of the item of value, it is worse than a gift: it is a bribe.

Mike Huckabee’s record on accepting these items of value, and quickly offering something of greater value in return, is yet another proof that Huckabee is not fit to be President, and not fit to even be a police chief. Abusing the power of office by giving unelected gift-givers that same power should be investigated, and if a crime was committed, the maximum penalty should be dosed out.

Even worse, the same “gift”-givers when Huckabee was Governor are now giving new “gifts” to Huckabee’s Presidential campaign. What will the response be should Huckabee be elected to President?

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Date: December 14th, 2007, Filed under Mike Huckabee

Mike Huckabee’s record on home schooling shows that his actions speak much louder than his words. Although he has been endorsed by a supposedly pro-homeschool organization (the Home School Legal Defense Association), their own website shows that Huckabee has promoted and even voted for an Arkansas law that infringes on the rights of homeschooling parents and children:

Home Schoolers Lose Ground with New Law: The enactment of House Bill 1724 on April 5, 1999, gives Arkansas the unique distinction of becoming the first state in the nation to add restrictions to its existing home school law. Sponsored by Representative Jim Magnus (R-55), a home schooling father from Little Rock, the new law, among other things, establishes notification deadlines and imposes a 14-day waiting period before parents are allowed to withdraw their children from public school to begin home schooling mid-semester … Now known as Act 1117, the H.B. 1724 law becomes effective 90 days after it was signed by Governor Huckabee on April 5, 1999. Therefore, it will begin to apply to home schooling families at the beginning of the 1999–2000 school year. The new restrictions placed on home schooling families under Act 1117 are as follows:

(1) Notice of intent must be given no later than August 15 by parents beginning home schooling in the fall semester or by December 15 for those beginning in the spring semester.

(2) Parents deciding to begin home schooling after the start of a semester are permitted to do so by providing the notice of intent 14 days prior to withdrawing the child from public school and each year thereafter at the beginning of the school year. The superintendent or the local school board may waive the 14-day waiting period.

(3) A public school student who is currently under disciplinary action for violation of any school policy is not eligible to begin home schooling unless (a) the superintendent or local school board chooses to allow the student to enroll in a home school, (b) the disciplinary action against the student has been completed or the school semester ends, whichever occurs first, or (c) the student has been expelled from public school.

So while Huckabee campaigns as a supporter of home schooling rights, it is obvious that his words are meaningless compared to his actions in the past. Children are free to change their minds before they do wrong, but adults who change their minds after doing wrong should not be politicians.

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