Showing posts with label Mike Huckabee. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mike Huckabee. Show all posts

Friday, January 4, 2008

Can evangelical Huckabee sway Jewish voters?

State Rep. Jason Bedrick, left, hosted a house party for presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, right, in October 2007. Rabbi Moshe Bleich of the Wellesley Chabad also attended the event.

"Bedrick may see Huckabee as the perfect fit for the White House, but for many American Jews the thought of a staunchly pro-life, ordained Baptist minister as president is a major cause for alarm. Especially one like Huckabee, who has called on Americans to "take this nation back for Christ," signed a newspaper advertisement stating that wives should submit to their husbands and stated that he does not believe in evolution."

Thursday, January 3, 2008

Obama and Huckabee Triumph in Iowa

Left, Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times; Right, Todd Heisler/The New York Times: Barack Obama and Mike Huckabee in Des Moines after their victories on Thursday night.

"Senator Barack Obama of Illinois, a first-term Democratic senator trying to become the nation’s first African-American president, rolled to victory in the Iowa caucuses on Thursday night, lifted by a record turnout of voters who embraced his promise of change."

Saturday, December 15, 2007

Huckabee criticizes Bush's "arrogant bunker mentality."


"Mike Huckabee, who has joked about his lack of foreign policy experience, is criticizing the Bush administration's efforts, denouncing a go-it-alone "arrogant bunker mentality" and questioning decisions on Iraq."

Wednesday, December 12, 2007

Huckabee Questions Mormons' Belief

"Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee, an ordained Southern Baptist minister, asks in an upcoming article, "Don't Mormons believe that Jesus and the devil are brothers?""

Saturday, December 8, 2007

Huckabee wanted to isolate AIDS patients


"Republican presidential hopeful former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee speaks with supporters after a fundraiser Friday, Dec. 7, 2007, in Bluffton, S.C. Huckabee once advocated isolating AIDS patients from the general public, opposed increased federal funding in the search for a cure and said homosexuality could 'pose a dangerous public health risk.' As a candidate for a U.S. Senate seat in 1992, Huckabee answered 229 questions submitted to him by The Associated Press. (AP Photo/Stephen Morton)"

Wednesday, December 5, 2007

Jerry Falwell's Liberty University Used University Resources To Promote Presidential Candidate

"Liberty University Chancellor Jerry Falwell Jr. violated federal tax law by using school resources to endorse Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee, Americans United for Separation of Church and State told the Internal Revenue Service today."