<p>You called Mick Huckabee “scary” and cited his metamucil comment as indicative of his “legendary temper”. That led me to believe you were politically weak-stomached is all:o. I agree that elegant and subtle responses are more to be desired—makes an interminable election cycle easier to endure. It’s just not realistic to expect them from ANY candidate, especially for stakes as high as Congress or The White House.</p>
<p>Amazingly, sometimes taking the high road helps a candidate, and I daresay that in this campaign it would be preferable to being offensive and using bad jokes directed at each other. </p>
<p>Would Winston Churchill engage in such nonsense? </p>
<p>And WWJD?</p>
<p>mini, I respect that you like personal attacks, as the viewpoint that they build character certainly has merit as another point of view. If the candidates insult each other, then it definitely is easier to start wars by insulting other world leaders. Good practice. And it must feel so good, and is much easier than running a mile or being pleasant every day.</p>
<p>Who is your candidate? Is anyone meaner and nastier enough yet for you?</p>
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You are parsing this much too finely. That “supernatural effect of prayer” is, for the faithful, mediated by God. It is not some unknown physical force from the nth dimension. Whether it is preordained or not, Huckabee is clearly saying that the wishes of the “thousands of people across this country who are praying” for his success are being favorably acted upon by the God to whom they direct their prayers.</p>
<p>poetsheart, I had the opportunity to meet with Huckabee for about an hour several years ago. Funny, quick-witted, self-deprecating. Couldn’t find a more charming guy. That’s why I find the snipes so revealing, in the context of rumors of a temper. Makes me think the rumors are true. Comes across as a kind-hearted, good ol’ boy, Baptist minister for the most part, but then I wonder whether something else lies beneath. </p>
<p>That’s why I find him scary. Is what we see what we get? Kind of like Bush’s billing as a “compassionate conservative.” To me, he turned out to be neither compassionate nor fiscally conservative.</p>
<p>Can’t bear Huckabee or Edwards. My idea of the ticket from hell – Edwards + Huckabee. In some strange way the two remind me of each other. Maybe it’s self-loathing – I’m Southern.</p>
<p>“Who is your candidate? Is anyone meaner and nastier enough yet for you?”</p>
<p>So far, they are all a bunch of mush balls, except maybe for Alan Keyes.</p>
<p>Why do I have to have a candidate? Where I live, my vote doesn’t count anyway.</p>
<p>Every vote counts…even if you are supporting a candidate that doesn’t have the lead, you still get to vote. I will always vote, b/c if I don’t than I feel that I have the lost the right to b**ch, I have no standing saying that the other party is horrible, I lost the right the minute I didn’t take the time to vote</p>
<p>I vote early and often, but I don’t fool myself into thinking that it means much. And I’m neither a Dem nor a Rep, so it has nothing to do with parties either. </p>
<p>I did vote for a major party candidate once, though. He then went out and killed a half a million children (more than Pol Pot, and many more than Idi Amin), and had his spokesperson then go on tv and tell the world that it “was worth it.”</p>
<p>They all disappoint in the end. They’re human.</p>
<p>You see, I’m a bit more optimistic than you are. I believe it is possible to have an elected leader who does not commit genocide, does not concoct a big lie to cover it up, and then provide the groundwork for his successor to launch a long-term hostile, aggressive occupation, and undertake ethnic cleansing.</p>
<p>But perhaps not a Republican or a Democrat. Or at least not the last two.</p>
<p>But then if I not one of those, my vote doesn’t count, does it?</p>
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<p>(This was in the link that OP posted in Post #1.)</p>
<p>It’s heartwarming to see someone rise up from modest means and make something of him/herself, but since when did poverty because a prerequisite for public office?</p>