After watching Mitt Romney accuse Mike Huckabee of inviting questions about his evangelical Christian faith on the Fox News Channel yesterday, God-o-Meter wondered whether the Romney camp really had accepted Huckabee's apology for asking whether Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers. The Romney campaign issued a statement saying it did accept the apology on Wednesday. But a senior Romney advisor tells God-o-Meter that he doesn't "believe Huck is innocent in bringing it up."
"He has a life-long reputation of being thin-skinned when attacked and vindictive in his retribution," the advisor tells GOM via email. "He has no $ to respond to our contrast ads so he uses the one weapon he has.... a theology degree. If he doesn’t know about the tenets of Mormonism then his degree isn’t worth much."
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in a speech on foreign policy, delivered at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, DC; Huckabee told the audience there about his theology degree,
“Many Iranians are well-disposed toward us. We should remember that on 9/11, while there was dancing in the street in other parts of the Muslim world, there were candlelight vigils and mourning in Tehran. When we first invaded Afghanistan, Iran helped us, especially in our dealings with their allies, the Northern Alliance. They wanted to join us in fighting Al Qaeda, hoping this would lead to better U. S.-Iranian relations. The CIA and the State Department supported this partnership, but some in the White House and Pentagon did not. When President Bush included Iran in his Axis of Evil, everything went downhill fast. As the only presidential candidate with a theology degree, along with years of political experience, I know that theology is black and white, but politics is not. My enemy today on one issue is my friend tomorrow on another.”
So once again, a credential that Huckabee doesn’t hold is used to tell us that it will help him handle Iran. And that including Iran in the Axis of Evil was a mistake because they could be our friend tomorrow. This is not a man I want leading foreign policy who worries more about how enemies who want to kill us today, will think of us tomorrow.
"This is not a man I want leading foreign policy who worries more about how enemies who want to kill us today, will think of us tomorrow."
I agree Spunky
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"My enemy today on one issue is my friend tomorrow on another.”
Hello? Can't think of anything I'd want to befriend the Pres of Iran about tomorrow or when hell freezes over. It looks as if you can't leave the pastor out of the politician. Forgivness doesn't always work AT WORK. Look at his record on getting murderers out of jail. I mean seriously...
I don't know if the "softer" side is necessarily a great trait as president.
Found this funny in a sick sort of way.
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives2/2007/12/019258.php
"Aside from Huckabee's inability to provide an account of the Dumond affair that's consistent with the evidence, there are reports that Huckabee received hundreds of gifts as governor the value of which exceeded $100,000 in one year. One of the donors apparently was appointed to a state commission. Huckabee and his wife also registered for gifts as they were planning to leave the governor's mansion and move into a home they had recently purchased. In a related matter, Huckabee removed the drapes from the governor's mansion when he left.
There was no violation here; the drapes had been one of the many gifts. As a friend from Arkansas told me, Huckabee wasn't a corrupt governor; just a tacky one. The best face I can put on his interview with the Times would be that Huckabee isn't a religious bigot, he's just too quick to stick the knife in."
Registered for gifts at dilliards??? I'm laughing now but if his poll numbers keep surging I'll be crying.
Huckabee now admits he doesn't have a theology degree but that he did take some theology classes.
Here's what he said,
""I have a bachelor of arts in religion and a minor in communications in my undergraduate work. And then I have 46 hours on a master's degree at Southwestern Theology Seminary. So, my degree as a theological degree is at the college level and then 46 hours toward a masters -- three years of study of New Testament Greek, and then the rest of it, all in Seminary was theological studies, but my degree was actually in religion."
So I took theology classes, but my degree was in religion. So why does he claim he has a theology degree and not a religion degree? The distinction is not small and he knows it, that's why?
And if his degree is in "religion" how is it that he is clueless about Mormonism? Huckabee talks in circles. Lauding and insulting his degree at the same time.
Folks, berating someone because of the type of degree they hold is off the point. Huck's personal weakness is the issue here, not his education. The personal weakness I speak of is his dishonesty. He lied about what he knows about LDS theology and he didn't have to. Baptist preachers are professionals when it comes to "cult" faiths as they are fond of calling them. So why did he lie? I think it is because he is a bigot, plain and simple. He could have commented about LDS theology when and if asked or taken the Romney approach but he didn't. He reverted back to what he knows so well. He used it as a weapon and then wanted not to be held accountable for it. That is what makes his so called "apology" a farce and really just another lie.
JLFuller,
"The personal weakness I speak of is his dishonesty"
I agree and Drudge picked up on it today with a link to the CBN reporter that the quote first came from.
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