<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for A look at Mike Huckabee’s environmental platform and record]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by BeauZeau http://www.grist.org/article/huckabee_factsheet/ Mon, 19 Nov 2007 15:23:06 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/huckabee_factsheet/1 I Don't Care - He's a Republican and a Pastor

I do not want a president who wishes to counter climate change because "God" wants him to.  I want a president who will take global climate change seriously because of the scientific, economic, social, and political reasons that make it imperative that we do something now. God is notorious for giving leaders bad, if not terrible, instructions.  

I do not want another president who thinks that God wants him to be president.  I don't want another president who will claim to be one thing, and then turn out to be quite another, and I think this guy looks like that kind of candidate.  

Maybe he's funny.  Maybe he's cute.  But he's still a pastor and a Republican, and we've seen enough of that sort of thing in the White House, already.  No more Republicans. No more preachers.  No more presidents whose real agenda is to erode the Constitution and destroy the Federal government in the name of God.  

]]> I Don't Care - He's a Republican and a Pastor

I do not want a president who wishes to counter climate change because "God" wants him to.  I want a president who will take global climate change seriously because of the scientific, economic, social, and political reasons that make it imperative that we do something now. God is notorious for giving leaders bad, if not terrible, instructions.  

I do not want another president who thinks that God wants him to be president.  I don't want another president who will claim to be one thing, and then turn out to be quite another, and I think this guy looks like that kind of candidate.  

Maybe he's funny.  Maybe he's cute.  But he's still a pastor and a Republican, and we've seen enough of that sort of thing in the White House, already.  No more Republicans. No more preachers.  No more presidents whose real agenda is to erode the Constitution and destroy the Federal government in the name of God.  

]]> Comment #2 by derek walters http://www.grist.org/article/huckabee_factsheet/ Sun, 16 Dec 2007 03:14:02 -0800 http://www.grist.org/article/huckabee_factsheet/2 I Do Care - He's A Republican And A Pastor

While I would rather see a Dick Cheney/Dan Quayle ticket more than anything else right now, a Huckabee presidency with a bold energy independence plan is a great second choice.  We need sober, straight-forward, humble, honest and reasoned leadership that is driven by sound doctrine (can't get much better than Southern Baptist).  We don't need histrionic, calculating, smoke & mirror, paper-tiger, emotion-driven leadership that will put style & poll numbers over substance.

As for Bush - I love GW and he still has my approval....but he hasn't really done much for energy independence.  We need a manhattan project & someone to crack the whip and provide significantly more research dollars & goals....Huckabee could do that.

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While I would rather see a Dick Cheney/Dan Quayle ticket more than anything else right now, a Huckabee presidency with a bold energy independence plan is a great second choice.  We need sober, straight-forward, humble, honest and reasoned leadership that is driven by sound doctrine (can't get much better than Southern Baptist).  We don't need histrionic, calculating, smoke & mirror, paper-tiger, emotion-driven leadership that will put style & poll numbers over substance.

As for Bush - I love GW and he still has my approval....but he hasn't really done much for energy independence.  We need a manhattan project & someone to crack the whip and provide significantly more research dollars & goals....Huckabee could do that.

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