On a usual day at work I go in before 5pm and get off around 2-3:30am. This puts me back at my hotel in the early hours of the morning. I like to watch TV and get something to eat before I go to bed. Channels 13, 14, and 24 are the first choice, all being ESPN networks. However channels 12, 15, and 17 I have been watching a lot. Now don’t get me wrong Sportscenter is the best news show on TV, but I have been watching more than my fair share of Bill O’riley and Glen Beck lately. I watch Fox News and CNN now more than I ever have and I really find it all interesting. With the presidential race overpowering all of our televisions for the next ten months I have decided to give it a little thought. I have watched the debate, candidate’s commercials, and the hours of coverage during the Iowa Caucuses. After all of this I think that I will vote for Mike Huckabee in the Missouri primary. The main reason is seeing how he handled himself in the CNN-YouTube debates. I encourage anyone who did not see them to find them online and watch at least the highlights.He is also endorsed by Chuck Norris and I have had a long standing rule; if Chuck Norris likes it, so do I!
http://www.mikehuckabee.com/
Here are a couple questions I believe Governor Huckabee knocked out of the park.
Tyler Overman: Hi. This is Tyler Overman from Memphis, Tennessee. And I have a quick question for those of you who would call yourselves Christian conservatives. The death penalty, what would Jesus do?
Cooper: Governor Huckabee?
Huckabee: You know, one of the toughest challenges that I ever faced as a governor was carrying out the death penalty. I did it more than any other governor ever had to do it in my state. As I look on this stage, I'm pretty sure that I'm the only person on this stage that's ever had to actually do it. Let me tell you, it was the toughest decision I ever made as a human-being. I read every page of every document of every case that ever came before me, because it was the one decision that came to my desk that, once I made it, was irrevocable.Every other decision, somebody else could go back and overturn, could fix if it was a mistake. That was one that was irrevocable. I believe there is a place for a death penalty. Some crimes are so heinous, so horrible that the only response that we, as a civilized nation, have for a most uncivil action is not only to try to deter that person from ever committing that crime again, but also as a warning to others that some crimes truly are beyond any other capacity for us to fix.Now, having said that, there are those who say, "How can you be pro-life and believe in the death penalty?" Because there's a real difference between the process of adjudication, where a person is deemed guilty after a thorough judicial process and is put to death by all of us, as citizens, under a law, as opposed to an individual making a decision to terminate a life that has never been deemed guilty because the life never was given a chance to even exist.
Cooper: Governor?
Huckabee: That's the fundamental difference.
Cooper: I do have to though press the question, which -- the question was, from the viewer was? What would Jesus do? Would Jesus support the death penalty?
Huckabee: Jesus was too smart to ever run for public office, Anderson. That's what Jesus would do.
Joseph: I am Joseph. I am from Dallas, Texas, and how you answer this question will tell us everything we need to know about you. Do you believe every word of this book? Specifically, this book that I am holding in my hand, do you believe this book?(Holy Bible)
Cooper: I think we've got a question. Mayor Giuliani?
Huckabee: Do I need to help you out, Mayor, on this one?
Giuliani: Wait a second, you're the minister. You're going to help me out on this one.
Huckabee: I'm trying to help you out.
Giuliani: OK. The reality is, I believe it, but I don't believe it's necessarily literally true in every single respect.
Cooper: Governor Romney?
Romney: I believe the Bible is the word of God, absolutely. And I try..... I try to live by it as well
as I can, but I miss in a lot of ways. But it's a guide for my life and for hundreds of millions, billions of people around the world. I believe in the Bible.
as I can, but I miss in a lot of ways. But it's a guide for my life and for hundreds of millions, billions of people around the world. I believe in the Bible.
Cooper: Does that mean you believe every word?
Romney: You know -- yes, I believe it's the word of God, the Bible is the word of God. The Bible is the word of God. I mean, I might interpret the word differently than you interpret the word, but I read the Bible and I believe the Bible is the word of God. I don't disagree with the Bible. I try to live by it.
Cooper: Governor Huckabee?
Huckabee: Sure. I believe the Bible is exactly what it is. It's the word of revelation to us from God himself. And the fact is that when people ask do we believe all of it, you either believe it or you don't believe it. But in the greater sense, I think what the question tried to make us feel like was that, well, if you believe the part that says "Go and pluck out your eye," well, none of us believe that we ought to go pluck out our eye. That obviously is allegorical. But the Bible has some messages that nobody really can confuse and really not left up to interpretation. "Love your neighbor as yourself."And as much as you've done it to the least of these brethren, you've done it unto me. Until we get those simple, real easy things right, I'm not sure we ought to spend a whole lot of time fighting over the other parts that are a little bit complicated. And as the only person here on the stage with a theology degree, there are parts of it I don't fully comprehend and understand, because the Bible is a revelation of an infinite god, and no finite person is ever going to fully understand it. If they do, their god is too small.
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