Huckabee in GOP top tier

[Soldier4Christ]

Huck takes heat for having CFR adviser
Candidate turns to globalist Richard Haass for foreign policy advice

Republican presidential candidate Mike Huckabee is getting more heat both online and in person from critics who scold the former governor for consulting the president of the Council on Foreign Relations on issues of international affairs.

Last month, Huckabee confirmed to CNN's Wolf Blitzer that he consults CFR President Richard Haass on foreign affairs matters – a fact that has circulated among bloggers and anti-globalism activists.

"Who are your principal foreign policy advisers, Governor," asked Blitzer.

Huckabee responded: "Well, I have a number of people from whom I get policy. I'm talking to Frank Gaffney. I talk to Richard Haass."

The National Expositor website pointed out Haass penned a column in the Taipei Times that called on sovereign nations to cede power to global bodies.

"States must be prepared to cede some sovereignty to world bodies if the international system is to function," Haass wrote. "This is already taking place in the trade realm. Governments agree to accept the rulings of the WTO because on balance they benefit from an international trading order even if a particular decision requires that they alter a practice that is their sovereign right to carry out.

" … (S)overeignty must be redefined if states are to cope with globalization. At its core, globalization entails the increasing volume, velocity, and importance of flows – within and across borders – of people, ideas, greenhouse gases, goods, dollars, drugs, viruses, e-mails, weapons and a good deal else, challenging one of sovereignty's fundamental principles: the ability to control what crosses borders in either direction. Sovereign states increasingly measure their vulnerability not to one another, but to forces beyond their control."

Haas then argues that sovereignty "needs to become weaker."

Writes the CFR chief: "States would be wise to weaken sovereignty in order to protect themselves, because they cannot insulate themselves from what goes on elsewhere. Sovereignty is no longer a sanctuary."

Haass also strikes a global-socialism note in arguing that world neighbors must provide for one another:

"Necessity may also lead to reducing or even eliminating sovereignty when a government, whether from a lack of capacity or conscious policy, is unable to provide for the basic needs of its citizens. This reflects not simply scruples, but a view that state failure and genocide can lead to destabilizing refugee flows and create openings for terrorists to take root."

The National Expositor railed against the Huckabee-Haass connection, asking, "Who needs individual rights in the techno-futuristic world police state? And you thought liberty was in jeopardy now? Just wait till you see what your children will have to deal with. Get activated, folks. These police state freaks want to shape your future into a control grid enforced through the fear-based reaction to sponsored false flag terror."

On Sunday, a heckler confronted Huckabee at a rally in New Hampshire, shouting out repeatedly: "Why is Richard Haass, the president of the Council of Foreign Relations, your political adviser?"

According to a report in the Boston Globe, Huckabee first ignored the man and then joked, "Don't make me send Chuck back there!" – a reference to actor and WND columnist Chuck Norris, who has been campaigning with Huckabee.

Security eventually ushered the man out, and the candidate emphasized the fact the heckler had a right to speak out.

"The great thing about America is that we're not going to take him out and shoot him," Huckabee is quoted as saying. "You don't have to agree with the politicians and you can throw them out of office. But if you do like them, you can put them in office."

The candidate did not address the issue of why Haass is one of his advisers.

Columnist Chuck Baldwin hammered Huckabee for his CFR connections in a commentary last week, mentioning that the candidate spoke before the Council last fall.

Wrote Baldwin: "As you read Huckabee's speech, you will find that he is George W. Bush on steroids! This is a man who intends to meddle in the affairs of nations around the world like you can't believe. Talk about entangling alliances: Huckabee intends for our State, Energy, Housing, Education, Justice, Treasury, and Transportation departments to spend untold billions of tax dollars on just about anything and everything, including schools, medical facilities, roads, sewage treatment, water filtration, electricity, and legal and banking systems in countries all over the globe. And that is exactly the kind of man the Council on Foreign Relations wants in Washington."

The CFR itself has downplayed the Huckabee-Haass connection, with spokeswoman Lisa Shields telling USA Today Haass has "briefed Huckabee on foreign policy issues as well as [briefing] many other candidates" in both parties. Shields stressed that the relationship was not exclusive and that Haass was not affiliated with the campaign.

Huckabee has seen his share of barbs from his GOP competitors on issues of foreign affairs, including criticism for a line he wrote in an article for Foreign Affairs.

"The Bush administration's arrogant bunker mentality has been counterproductive at home and abroad," the candidate wrote.

Rebutted candidate Fred Thompson at a recent GOP debate: "I think that maybe the governor has rethought his comments that he made about an arrogant foreign policy, because it seems now what he's saying is that we were arrogant because we didn't go in with enough troops. I think that's kind of a different impression than the one that he originally sought to leave."

[nChrist]

I'll just say that I'm glad that we have plenty of time to gather information and think about this. I was optimistic, but I have not made up my mind. Regardless, this is something for all Christians to be very serious about and pray about. For Christians who have studied Bible Prophecy, "Global" anything should have an evil ring to it. However, these things are going to happen, regardless of who the leaders are. Bible Prophecy will be fulfilled at GOD'S Appointed time and in HIS Way. So, I think that prayer and guidance from GOD will be all important. Regardless, HIS Will be Done!, and it Will Be!

Love In Christ,
Tom

Thanks be unto God for His unspeakable GIFT, Jesus Christ, our Lord and Saviour Forever!

[HisDaughter]

I'll just say that I'm glad that we have plenty of time to gather information and think about this.

I agree with you on that part, but I have to say that I am still impressed with him in the sense that he hasn't once apologized for his faith or backed down from it.  Also during the debates last night, Ron Paul was talking about that we should treat Isael as an adult instead of a step child and that we should let them fend for themselves (in so many words) and Huckabee stated that if he were President, we would always give aid to Israel.  That's an important issue to me. 
I'm glad we have time also, but I'm also of a mind that where Huckabee is weak, God is strong.

In Christ,
Grammyluv

[Soldier4Christ]

Ron Paul is like those Christians that pull back into the walls of their church or homes and have nothing at all to do with the rest of the world. Paul wants us all to pull back within the borders of the U.S. and to ignore what is going on around us not realizing that what happens in the rest of the world does and will in fact have a great effect on us all. Being an ostrich with our heads stuck in the ground will not change the fact that we are a part of what is happening throughout the world and that we must do something about it. Being such an ostrich will only get our heads cut off without our seeing it coming.

Huckabee may be weak in areas but at least he recognizes the error of doing what Ron Paul wants to do.

[Soldier4Christ]

Canadian fossil makes waves in Huckabee's presidential run

Unlikely as it sounds, an extinct Canadian fish with foot-like fins is set to make a serious splash in the U.S. presidential race.

Tiktaalik roseae -- a 375-million-year-old fossilized "fishapod" discovered on Ellesmere Island in 2004 -- has been hailed as an "evolutionary icon" because it represents the crucial transition from sea to land for some of the Earth's most primitive creatures.

The discovery was announced amid global fanfare in 2006, and Tiktaalik is now the showcase species in a report released last week by the U.S. National Academy of Sciences to promote the study of evolution and counter calls for U.S. schools to teach creationism.

That issue has dogged Republican presidential contender Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and an ordained Baptist minister, who publicly rejects the idea that humans came from apes.

Now Neil Shubin, the University of Chicago biologist who discovered the High Arctic fossil, is poised to release a populist recounting of his Canadian find -- Your Inner Fish -- in which he traces the primordial origins of the human race to such lowly creatures.

"It is far worse for Huckabee. Before apes, his ancestors were fish, worms, and other creatures," Mr. Shubin told Canwest News Service yesterday. "With jaw bones that correspond to gill bones in fish and sharks, a body plan shared with headless worms, and with parts of a DNA recipe shared with relatives of jellyfish, Huckabee's ties to some of the most humble forms of life on our planet run deep indeed."

The planned launch of Your Inner Fish next Tuesday has already prompted a prediction from the leading U.S. evolutionary scientist Don Johanson -- co-discoverer of Lucy, the "missing-link" ape -- that "creationists will want this book banned" because it so convincingly discredits their world view.

"If you want to believe that you and your family came from apes, I'll accept that," Mr. Huckabee said in an interview last year. "I believe there was a creative process ... I believe that there is a God and that he put the process in motion."

Though he has tried to avoid the issue in recent months, Mr. Huckabee's views about evolution are coming under renewed scrutiny after solid support among evangelical Christians powered his surprise victory last week in Iowa in the opening round of the Republican presidential race.

The influential journal Nature welcomed the publication of Science, Evolution and Creationism this week, applauding its focus on "fossils such as the Canadian Tiktaalik" and noting the book's timely release came "on the same day that Mike Huckabee won the Republican presidential caucus in Iowa."

And in its latest issue, New Scientist magazine editorializes warmly about the pro-evolution push by the U.S. National Academy Sciences, arguing that the effort is "unlikely to be enough to convince Huckabee" but "will help to highlight the idiocy of a political position that calls for America to lead the world while denying one of the foundation stones of scientific progress."

Mr. Huckabee has said he doesn't oppose the teaching of evolution and wouldn't expect U.S. schools to promote creationist ideas, such as Intelligent Design, "as if it's the only thing that they should teach."

Polls in the U.S. routinely show that nearly half of all Americans discount the theory of evolution.

Tiktaalik was a predatory species that hunted in shallow waters at a time in Earth history when Ellesmere Island -- now Canada's northernmost land mass -- was a subtropical swamp situated near the equator.

The fossilized bones of the three-metre-long Tiktaalik (its Inuktitut name means "big, shallow-water fish") showed that it had the scales and fins of a fish but the ribs, neck, head and limb-like bones of a land animal.

"The major bones in our own arms and legs are similar in overall configuration to those of Tiktaalik," notes the report by the National Academy of Sciences. "The discovery of Tiktaalik, while critically important for confirming predictions of evolutionary theory, is just one example of many findings made every year that add depth and breadth to the scientific understanding of biological evolution."

The academy, which is congressionally mandated to advise the U.S. government on scientific issues, also states: "Because science has no way to accept or refute creationists' assertions, creationist beliefs should not be presented in science classrooms alongside teaching about evolution. Teaching non-scientific concepts in science class will only confuse students about the processes, nature, and limits of science."

[Soldier4Christ]

Of course this subject is going to come up in Huckabee's campaign. It was inevitable.

"creationists will want this book banned" because it so convincingly discredits their world view.

and of course the truth cannot be told on this or any other part of this article. Creationists want this book banned but it has nothing to do with it being convincing but rather because it has already been proven false. Many living Tiktaalik roseae have been found still living today and unlike the proponents of this fossil for evolution it has fins and bones that are nothing at all like a land animal.

[HisDaughter]

-- Your Inner Fish --

Can't wait to read that one!  Now I've heard everything!!

It's not Christians that want books, ideas, etc, etc banned....It's them.  A fool is a fool no matter what he reads and we know that.  We also know that truth is truth and will prevail in the END.

"You're Inner Fish"    Hahahahaha.  What a title!  Can't get over that one.  There's a self help book for everything!
Oh!  My poor inner fish!  I'm just a guppy at heart.  My mother fish died in child birth and I've been lost ever since and fending for myself until one day I pulled myself up by the boot straps and walked on land to a new and better future...
You may know some of my decendents...Magilla Gorrilla and Curious George...
hahahahaha

Sorry guys.  Just entertaining myself! 

[Soldier4Christ]

Sorry guys.  Just entertaining myself! 

and the rest of us, too.

 

[Shammu]

"You're Inner Fish"    Hahahahaha.  What a title!  Can't get over that one.  There's a self help book for everything!
Oh!  My poor inner fish!  I'm just a guppy at heart.  My mother fish died in child birth and I've been lost ever since and fending for myself until one day I pulled myself up by the boot straps and walked on land to a new and better future...
You may know some of my decendents...Magilla Gorrilla and Curious George...
hahahahaha

Sorry guys.  Just entertaining myself!

I see you are easily entertained sister...................

[nChrist]

Can't wait to read that one!  Now I've heard everything!!

It's not Christians that want books, ideas, etc, etc banned....It's them.  A fool is a fool no matter what he reads and we know that.  We also know that truth is truth and will prevail in the END.

"You're Inner Fish"    Hahahahaha.  What a title!  Can't get over that one.  There's a self help book for everything!
Oh!  My poor inner fish!  I'm just a guppy at heart.  My mother fish died in child birth and I've been lost ever since and fending for myself until one day I pulled myself up by the boot straps and walked on land to a new and better future...
You may know some of my decendents...Magilla Gorrilla and Curious George...
hahahahaha

Sorry guys.  Just entertaining myself! 

           ROFL!

THANKS! - I needed this laugh this morning. You can also consider that new ROFL Graphic Snagged.

[Brother Jerry]

That was classic.  I think I need stitches.

[Soldier4Christ]

HUCK, THE CONSTITUTION AND 'GOD'S STANDARDS'

Huckabee's closing argument to voters here this evening featured a few new stories and two prolonged sections on illegal immigration and Christian values.

These two topics usually feature prominently in Huckabee's stump speech, but last night he got specific, promising to build a border fence within 18 months if elected and elaborating on his belief that the constitution needs to be amended.

"[Some of my opponents] do not want to change the Constitution, 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 is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards rather than try to change God's standards," Huckabee said, referring to the need for a constitutional human life amendment and an amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman.

Huckabee often refers to the need to amend the constitution on these grounds, but he has never so specifically called for the Constitution to be brought within "God's standards," which are themselves debated amongst religious scholars. As a closing statement he asked the room of nearly 500 supporters to "pray and then work hard, and in that order," to help him secure a victory in Tuesday's GOP primary.

Tomorrow Huckabee will visit two polling places in the morning before taking off for South Carolina where he will watch Michigan's returns come in.

[nChrist]

WOW! - I missed this.

How much more blunt could a Christian get? However, we all know that he just painted a HUGE target on himself and asked EVIL to hit him. EVIL will do just that!

Brothers and Sisters, I know that Mike Huckabee is just a man and he's far from perfect, but I'm liking him more by the minute. This latest speech exhibits great courage and makes it plain where he stands. We can now expect the severe mudslinging to begin. We'll have to clear the mud off the windshield frequently to see what might be real. We should expect that some negative things will be real, and we'll have to see how he handles the real. However, we should also KNOW that much will simply be dirty, distorted and twisted politics. I'm still behind Huckabee and think we're getting ready to see one of the dirtiest campaigns in history. I'm still looking and praying, and I will do as GOD leads me. May GOD lead and direct us!

[Soldier4Christ]

May GOD lead and direct us!

AMEN!

I was really impressed with this speech myself and I had the same thoughts on this. He is an open taget now and there will be more than just target practice exhibited by those aiming at him.

[Brother Jerry]

Not looking good on the home front.  Huckabee took pretty much the entire South East.  But failed up in the North East and most of the Western states.  By the number of delegates McCain is the clear winner.

The bad thing is that I do not think he has it in him to beat either one of the Democratic possibles.  I could really only see Huckabee doing that.  I think he would have secured the South easily so his focus would have been NE, and W.  And with a strait attitude and honest approach to things I think he could have secured the Republican vote and even swayed some Democrats.