Update below!
Would someone please tell me why the story about Huckabee wanting to change the Constitution and start a theocracy here is NOT in regular newspapers? I am not allowed to use AlterNet or TPM or the blogs as sources for weekly “current events in politics” assignments. And if it isn’t even news for a high school history class, then it’s really not news for the American public!
Here’s what Google News Search had for the search terms huckabee “god’s standards” constitution:
Huckabee Advocates Changing the Constitution to Live By “God’s …
AOL News Newsbloggers, VA – 1 hour ago
… means what he says, he wants the turn the US into a Christian Taliban state, where we would be ruled by what Mike Huckabee believes is “God’s standards. .Huck, the Constitution and ‘God’s standards’
MSNBC – Jan 15, 2008
WARREN, Mich. — Huckabee’s closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and …
Guardian Unlimited, UK – Jan 14, 2008
The former Baptist minister Mike Huckabee today discarded the emphasis on conservative social values that propelled him to victory in the Iowa caucuses …
WCPO, OH – Jan 15, 2008
By LIBBY QUAID, AP Writer LEXINGTON, SC (AP) — Mike Huckabee, nursing a second third-place finish in northern states, looked ahead to the South where he …Mike Huckabee Doesn’t Believe in Constitution
Stop the ACLU, PA – Jan 15, 2008
by Jay @ 9:42 pm on January 15, 2008. If I may quote a famouse liberal…”You say you wanna change the Constitution, well you know…we all wanna change your …
Why not the New York Times or the Chicago Tribune or a newspaper my teacher accepts as real?!?!? Here’s what Huckabee ACTUALLY said:
“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.”
He’s a FFFFing candidate for President who has already won a state! Tell me why that this shouldn’t be front page news on all the newspapers this week.
Update: It IS in a real newspaper! Just not in the United States. The UK Guardian has the story.
January 17, 2008 at 1:17 pm
Huckabye? Huckabee wants to have adulterers, homosexuals and rape victims stoned to death. He also wants to make alcohol and music videos illegal, and make women 2nd class citizens and to take all girls out of school.
Oops, my bad, that’s another ‘religion’.
Hey, anybody but the PIAPS!
if you’re MAD
punish your country
VOTE for Hillary
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http://absurdthoughtsaboutgod.blogspot.com/
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January 17, 2008 at 9:57 pm
Good column, Cassie! Here’s an article on the subject from Salon magazine that I found of interest…
http://www.salon.com/opinion/conason/2008/01/18/huckabee/
January 17, 2008 at 10:28 pm
I think if Huckabee somehow “miraculously” wins the nomination, this tidbit of information will be front page news.
Until then, it’s only a curiosity.
January 18, 2008 at 7:37 pm
Go, Cassie, GO! I haven’t read a dead wood newspaper in years. Even in my big city, we have only one rag that depends on the Associated Press for national news. And by then I’ve already found it online days before.
January 18, 2008 at 9:37 pm
Any chance of your teacher changing her so called standards?
BTW; Keep up the good work, you are making a difference!
January 18, 2008 at 9:58 pm
Changing the Constitution to fit the Bible is an incredibly radical position. The MSM hasn’t reported it very heavily because – well, they’re the MSM, right?
The evangelicals haven’t been making noise because they *know* it’s a dangerous position. Keep it quiet, and he both remains viable and becomes their stealth candidate.
Great article, by the way…
January 18, 2008 at 10:02 pm
The little three line update really drives the post home!
And as for Huckabee’s “make the constitution fit the Bible” line . . . let’s just say that I don’t think he and I read the same Bible.