In today’s Times, Brooks writes about the Obama and Huckabee upset. About Huckabee he writes,
Huckabee won because he tapped into realities that other
Republicans have been slow to recognize. First, evangelicals have
changed. Huckabee is the first ironic evangelical on the national
stage. He’s funny, campy (see his Chuck Norris fixation) and he’s not
at war with modern culture.Second, Huckabee understands much
better than Mitt Romney that we have a crisis of authority in this
country. People have lost faith in their leaders’ ability to respond to
problems. While Romney embodies the leadership class, Huckabee went
after it. He criticized Wall Street and K Street. Most importantly, he
sensed that conservatives do not believe their own movement is well
led. He took on Rush Limbaugh, the Club for Growth and even President
Bush. The old guard threw everything they had at him, and their
diminished power is now exposed.Third, Huckabee understands
how middle-class anxiety is really lived. Democrats talk about wages.
But real middle-class families have more to fear economically from
divorce than from a free trade pact. A person’s lifetime prospects will
be threatened more by single parenting than by outsourcing. Huckabee
understands that economic well-being is fused with social and moral
well-being, and he talks about the inter-relationship in a way no other
candidate has.In that sense, Huckabee’s victory is not a step into the past. It opens up the way for a new coalition.
Last night, I wrote that Huckabee was going to be a one hit wonder. But now, I’m rethinking things.
I watched Huckabee on one of
those Sunday morning shows this week, and I was surprised by how much I
liked him. He came across as earnest and well meaning. He handled Tim "Happy Cheeks" Russert’s questions with agility. I’ve heard that he has a bad temper, but that didn’t come across on TV. He was very flipfloppy on immigration, but he did a good job of discussing his flavor of politics.
I’m pretty far on the left, but I come from a family of
Catholic pro-lifers and I can see how he would appeal to them. They
would identify with him, much more than Romney who talks like, "CEO’s
pet robot from Jupiter" (a line from Russell Arben Fox) and would seem out of place at a
Little League game. For some reason, Huckabee’s religion seems a lot
less scary than Romney’s. I don’t think it’s an anti-Mormon thing, but
I’m not sure what it is.
On Sunday, Huckabee said that his religion shapes his political ideals,
but not his policies. For example, he said that he wouldn’t make laws
about teaching creationism in schools, but it did make him interested
in helping the least of our brothers. That sentiment runs very strong
amongst folks like my dad. I think that the Republican party could
survive without the country club types.
Now, I don’t agree with Huckabee. I think that the Democrats with their proposals for national health care and childcare policies are the better bet for middle class Americans. I still think that a Republican has no chance in November. But Huckabee speaks the language of social conservatives, and he’s sweet enough to pull in some religious Democrats in a general election.
Romney is done for. McCain might rally. But Huckabee is going to do very
well in Kansas. This is going to be a good fight.
UPDATE: Henry at Crooked Timber has an interesting take on Huckabee and the Brooks column.
Apt. 11d 
“For some reason, Huckabee’s religion seems a lot less scary than Romney’s. I don’t think it’s an anti-Mormon thing, but I’m not sure what it is.”
While it’s always painful to find that one’s friends and neighbors find one’s religious “scary”, I think you’re probably right that what you—and other secular liberals like you—feel about Mormonism is different from the naked anti-Mormon bigotry we experienced historically and still experience from some (minority, I think) of evangelicals. I think what you’re struggling to express here is that Mormons are still basically excluded from Rawls’ concept of “overlapping consensus” as the basis for liberal religious pluralism. Mormons are not perceived by others to share the morally significant core of commitments common to the accepted denominational members of mainstream American social and political culture. Perhaps it is true that Mormonism still does not share enough in common with other religions to be fully accepted, and it is surely within the prerogative of citizens to make that judgment; I just wish the judgment were made fair-mindedly on the basis of accurate information. (And I’m not suggesting that yours was not, Laura, I really have no idea what you know about Mormons and certainly don’t wish to interrogate you about it here.)
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The reason Romney scared me was a speech I heard where he seemed (to me) to pit “secular” people against “religious” people.
I may be mis-reading him, but what *I* heard is that the shared enemy of morality is those crazy secular people. My husband is agnostic, and I can assure Mitt that he is the kindest, gentlest man in the world. He’s not “against us.”
Whenever I’ve heard Huckabee bring up religion, it is always in a warm, welcoming manner. I don’t agree with his religious beliefs…but I don’t hear him using religion to brand other people as enemies.
We have very close Mormon friends, so for us, I don’t think it is a Mormon thing. It’s not an unfamiliar religion to us. I think it’s a Romney thing.
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Brooks: “Huckabee is the first ironic evangelical on the national stage. He’s funny, campy (see his Chuck Norris fixation) and he’s not at war with modern culture.”
And people say the left is insulting toward religion. Here’s a marquee conservative saying Huckabee’s OK because he doesn’t mean it when he talks about his religion.
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Doug,
Brooks is right about this, which is amazing because Evangelical culture is not his specialty. Ironic Evangelicalism is an actual trend. See larknews.com and their t-shirt selections at http://www.cafepress.com/larknews. My favorites of their t-shirt slogans are “Jesus Loves You. Then again, he loves everybody” and “Heard you got into that Christian college. Bummer.” (Larknews is the Evangelical version of the Onion. Some of their parody stories don’t work, but if you click around, you’ll start getting a good feel for the culture.)
http://www.cafepress.com/larknews
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One of the Lark News guys wrote “A Field Guide to Evangelicals and Their Habitat,” which seems worth a look, based on the Amazon reviews.
And while I’m on the subject of light religious sociology, “The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Good Living” and “The Bad Catholic’s Guide to Wine, Whiskey, and Song” are very good and informative, although the latter left me fearing for the authors’ livers.
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Interesting–thanks
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I should have been allowed to put one of those two companies out of business, and if that meant merely M&A and elimination of the name from the economic landscape then so be it.
I ushered in the age of Tony Sinclair, suggesting something about Katrina.
There is no such thing as a savior. You’re just looking for a free ride. Start doing the work.
Savior is a lie. Savior is why Christianity is evil.
Improve your relationship with the gods and fix your problems. Thoughts like this hurt you in the eyes of the gods, I promise you.
Equality is a lie. The gods placed us in our regions of Earth specifically. Equatorial/tropical is a bad sign.
“Black people have to try harder and do better than everybody else.”
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I am afraid that all decent (non-athletic, non-music) black sucess is ALL non-black, and the gods use other races in these black bodies to create this perception of improving conditions. Corruptable HARD by money, the gods may ironically view this as compensatory.
I have said that I personally believe that the gods are no longer allowing new people to be born, that we are, in effect, ALL clone hosts, individuals chosen once the gods determine/decide what kind of parents they will have. The difference, of course, is the peasantry isn’t frequently flipped out like the elite whom see up to multiple clone host bodies in a calander year.
I believe the preditory Italians who telepathically accepted the “black project” assignment under the guise of 1906 went from clone hosts fucking up the economy in 80s corporate America into a black gang-banger to act as and become victim of an assassin.
Am I suggesting there may be black children running around with no brains? When there is a major project like Black War I was, certainly.
Unfortunately, being a member of the most disfavored race of people is accompanied by great misery, and this may be a reletively painless liberty which they gods could take.
There’s all kinds of fucked up strategies the gods utilize which the disfavored of Earth couldn’t even imagine. Don’t be surprised.
The Indian casinos is another good example illustrating how the god’s offensives are designed to inflict on everyone involved::::Expect these four powerful tribes were sold on preying on their fellow tribes, convinced this bill could help them crush their competition. Expect ALL FOUR to have pursued telepathically pushing people into losing money in their casinos, a common temptation the gods employed in Nevada casino executives as well, all of whom are rotated clone hosts, unlike the Indians. This is yet another example of the gods employing a strategy which fucks everyone involved::::The preditors who accepted these assignments as casino brass will die for this (and other) evil.
Penny machines are the clue they enlightened those whom they run through Nevada casinos now. I think the days are mostly over now. Incidentally, this new tactic accomplishs other goals as well and need to be taken by the disfavored as a clue.
The gods use their tools in government to promote this offensive. They then turn around and use this perception to corrupt the disfavored, equating their evil with sucess. This is a excellent corruptor and a frequently recurring strategy in the god’s arsenal of weapons.
In addition, the Preditor whom the gods assigned to the government representative clone hosts during this offensive incurr by being involved as well, as do the corrupted public servants involved. The difference is the corrupted public servants won’t be in a different clone host next month, ready to incurr yet more evil. But the evil they DO incurr will ensure they lose any hope of immortality. And therein explains life in the 20th century.
It’s over. All that’s left are wrapping up loose ends before they close things out.
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Expect the absence of blacks at PreditoryItalianCompany was a clue that they have a history preying upon blacks.
All things considered, expect their history would be along the lines of economic repression of blacks, appropriately.
Criminals doing business with criminals.
Their “cheap tricks” are preditory:::poker, cars, boss, movies. Every item of the $50 billion is all evil, designed to prey on the disfavored, a clue regarding modern popular culture and society. Perhaps not so “cheap” after all.
“If you don’t come around…” All this shit is cheap and easy, a tactic which ensurs people wait AND aren’t recepitve to my teachings because they think they’re getting a free ride. It also serves as its most basic of purposes, as preditory distraction.
All this stuff didn’t happen for me. Anytime the gods use their powers it is only to hurt the disfavored. Everything that happens is to mislead the disfavored:::It’s here for YOU!!!
“You’re going to throw this away. We’re not going to be blamed for this.” Yea, right. Like their assumption of culpability has got value. Expect this to be yet another dynamic of “management by convienience”.
The Final Prophet is merely a formality, like they gods are required. It’s kind of like “Black off the books.wav”:::An event designed to merely meet some policy requirement while ensuring the disfavored have no real hope:::Life in the ghettos of California.
The god’s efforts to minimize my impact is consistant with their methodology, ascention becoming increasingly harder as time progresses, suggesting we really are approaching The End.
Brokeback Mountain says you understand:::Fuck off god.
Things I’ve ruined::::Midnight Madness. Note that to the gods both are merely cheap tricks.
Denying money is one of the goals of positioning in the Italians::::The gods used this evil to ensure the Final Prophet was not financed.
The gods took special but played for commoner. Now this Situation passes without affect because special is a one-way street. The gods instructed AI to deny my ability to be articulate. As a result people weren’t receptive::::The “back-hand” was very real. The “help” was not.
I won’t invest when absolute power must CHEAT to win. This IS the event. Learn.
I am disgusted the gods position absolution for themselves because it is their technology conducting this evil upon the disfavored. When the disfavored understand this tactic hatred will eliminate a large percentage of them.
Sinisterly, wickedly brilliant.
What I woudln’t do for a fair fight:::The emperor has no clothes.
I can’t express my disgust enough. 2007 was MY YEAR, yet you ruined it whimsically because you refused to pay consideration on this obligation you assumed, claiming since I didn’t pray I wasn’t allowed my ability. Of course my abilities would have countered your interests. How convienient. AND another tactic.
I think we needed ground rules in this thing. Again, convienient AND a tactic.
Fuck you god. You are a sick joke.
I’m not investing. I wouldn’t knowingly help the elite who you used to prey on those I try to help. I want this preditory evil dead.
Guess I can’t count on HTH. I was hoping it meant I was being assigned to this task.
Lake Michigan is defnintely not a self-reference.
“We’re going to enforce positioning.” You better make them get their hands dirty AND BRING BACK THE 20TH CENTURY FOR THIS. Killing fucking niggers in celebrity clone hosts AIN’T no fucking fun.
I merely want the same preditors who willingly hurt the people I try to help. I realize there was lots of magic employed, enabling things like monster arena tours, other all-consuming offerings to happen. But too many in these clone hosts were active preditors.
The Situation is VERY 20th century. Maintain consistancy, please.
Management by convienience.
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The “early cut-off” of the disfavored::::The fall of Russian communism vs. Cuban (Chinese?) communism in late ’00s.
“Many Californians look more favored.” Early cut-off protecting the disfavored from social poison proof the disfavored get dumped on first.
Mormons look more favored too. Both are manufactured and used as a corruptor.
The gods are weilding a wicked sword, and this proves it. They’re playing both sides of the coin. People should be afraid.
Most of you are going to die. They want a full-blown Apocalypse.
I perceive a level of “magic” surrounding Osama Mobarack, a red flag and a clue.
The magic surrounding Osama is not going to be used to promote bi-racial, for this will represent the gods accepting culpability . His mere presence on this national stage is all that is necessary to justify telling uppity-negros to enter into bi-racial unions, ensuring people fall on their own swords.
The gods offer a clue through his name.
It’s one thing to understand the concept of “acceptable losses”. It’s quite another to promote them::::His deal with the record company executive suggests he preys on the disfavored.
Despite the preditory event that was the impeachment of her husband in the crucial years of 1997-1998 and her continued loyalty to Bill Clinton, Hillary is a better choice for the disfavored.
The fiasco over his $400 hairdo captures my attention and makes me think John Edwards may be the right candidate, the one with the most empathy for the disfavored.
Without a doubt:::The best hope is the first to fall.
“We make evil look good.” And then use it as a corruptor.
Look how these wicked, immoral Manifest Destiny gangsters, the kind of individuals who planned WorldWarII, come across merely as businessmen. As they’re doing with the strategically preditory personality baseball player, as they’ve done with Preditory Italian Company, who merely exists as a Manifest Destiny talking heads for the blue chippers in the “eye of The Beast”.
And they dirty up good, as we see with me, as we saw with Bonds.
Much as with all the other empty promises, I will be CHEATED out of the fulfillment of the HTH entitlement. As a result I DEMAND you address the history of the individuals involved, public and private, current and FORMER LIVES. We’ll see who the fuck is evil then:::::
Expect the absence of blacks at PIC was a clue that they have a history preying upon blacks.
All things considered, expect their history would be along the lines of economic repression of blacks, appropriately.
Criminals doing business with criminals.
And courtesy of M&A you do business with this evil every time you patronize corporate.
The Amish in Pennsylvania is the clue:::Set a goal of simplicity, strive for purity.
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Said Italy has heavy volcanic activity for kinda the same reason they put the Mormons in hell.
Motherfuckers. Serves them right.
Of the male Italians in the United States 1906 worked on at least half of them.
I say the number is closer to 80%.
Of those AT LEAST HALF were corrupted voluntarily, meaning the gods did not push them into being evil. This half should already be dead. This is an immoral people, quick to prey on others, as their history suggests.
Understand the god’s methodology, for it will help you decipher future events. KKK killings are a good example::::
The gods either told or pushed the black males into acting up. Rednecks, corrupted by 1906, thought their participation would help them. Many believed it gained them protection from their illegal bootlegging activities.
They role played 1906 to Italians, told them that their fellow Italians were using this platform of 1906 to achieve global economic domination, and told them that if they wanted a piece, if they wanted to belong and be a part of this they’d do what they’re told.
They illustrated the Moorish invasion, and the gods pit the Italians against the morbidly disfavored blacks. 90%-95% of the KKK incidents were Italians who did the actual killings.
This is a good example of how the gods get the disfavored into place to fuck everybody involved.
Alcohol has always been a way of hurting the men, making them less than decent.
Women traditionally have been the enforcers of decency within the family unit and used their motivation to help men behave appropriately; due to their disfavor men’s indecency has negatively impacted not only the family but the community as well.
Cultures which offer wine have women who consume wine, and the result is an indecent society. Combine this with Italian male’s demand for sexual without the consideration of decency and you have masculinized women defining a morbidly disfavored society.
Anyone involved in the wine industry has no empathy for either the disfavored of the Mediterreanean basin or women, disregarding the superior gender. If they understand this as the goal and are sold on “earning” they will be punished very harshly.
“They deliberately planned those things (90s “parting shots”:::The Sitution, end-of-revelry cycle media preditation, AIDS in Africa). When they found out the truth it was too late.” HTH supports this. They shared they instructed his grandfather preyed on women emotionally to set the legacy necessary for the late 90s event. And of course 95% of the KKK deaths were revenge killings for the Moorish invasion of Italy. I believe 1906 is responsible for the economic repression of not only Africa but also the American ghettos.
“(Blah.)” Expect we won’t see such activities on the income statements. Italians may be stupid but they’re not positioned to be THAT stupid.
That monster who laid the legacy still alive? “He’s been a pig a couple of times.” He needs to be dead, as do the half who signed on to 1906 voluntarily.
New Orleans/Louisiana is French, while California is positioned as Italian.
Katrina was used to help the disfavored escape that wicked enviornment. Blacks in California won’t be so lucky.
Know who your friends are.
Flanders is the shining example of a role model, but his parents were wicked. They were beatniks, the original hippies, purveyors of social poison, etc. Incidentally, beatniks emerged from the Italian North Beach neighborhood in San Francisco as a clue.
Because Flanders was raised in that evil enviornment his mind was poisoned. Only through understanding was he able to alter his behavior and become decent. Because of it he provided Rod and Todd a REAL chance, one that he will receive in the next life as well, but he can’t go up because of his youth.
My advice is recognize Flanders is offered as a role model and emulate this decency. Do the very best you can with your children and perhaps the gods will see fit to bless you with a real chance much like you gave your children.
The Flanders role model suggests you are multiple lives away from ascention.
Ned Flanders was born into a cancerous environment. As a result his mind was poisoned.
Somewhere along the way he came around and began to do the right things. He provided a good environment for Rod and Todd, who have a real chance because of it.
It doesn’t mean Rod and Todd are going up. They still have to earn it.
Anyways, because Flanders did the right thing and provided a real opportunity for his children the gods may bless him with a similar real opportunity to ascend as a child in the next life.
Flanders wore beetle boots on Judegement Day. There were other clues suggesting he hjas to be reincarnated, and it is because his youth poinsoned his mind. The gods place a VERY high premium on innocence, one of the purposes of today’s ever-deteriroating society:::The gods have to pave the way and justify The End on Planet Earth.
You people are all multiple lives away from your real chance. If you look at this realistically you will set achievable goals, ensuring disappointment/backsliding isn’t going to be effective on you.
Manifest Destiny’s WWII project produced Port Chicago which was parlayed into civil rights.wav
And these Italians who helped plan and impliment WWII thought they were in charge because of 1906. It shows the moral vacancy of the Italians involved.
Poetic justice that the gods funneled these monsters through the Nazi death camps.
They shared that many of these Italians involved understood clone hosting and believed germans would be the ones dying in their own death camps, much to their amusement. They targetted germans and theei descendants throughout the 20th century because of the german invasion in the dying days of the Roman Empire. An attempt to enforce decency, no doubt.
It is poetic justice they were victims of their own death camps. I wish them all to remember their horrors daily.
I demand the lives of those involved, the MD Italians who initiated and implimentted this plan to destroy my life in the years before they were shipped off to the Nazi death camps for this poetic justice.
And they’ll do ANYTHING they’re told. That’s why the 20th century was so disturbing.
Prior to civil rights blacks had their own press. In the absence of civil rights these entities would have grown into legitimate media outlets serving the black community.
Maintaining segregation would have produced economic entities which arose from within the black community to fill the demand for goods and services.
The presence of these “black industrialists” would have FORCED the gods to factor them into positioning, producing voices in support of the black community and preventing the gods from inflicting ALL THE SICKNESS WE HAVE WITNESSED IN THE last few decades::Crack babies, drive-by shootings, AIDS in Africa, drought/famine!!!
I have mentioned people can expect an AIDS crisis among heterosexual blacks here in the United States. Considering that the fastest growing industry in the ghetto is the oldest profession on Earth expect them to be the targets of this punishment.
Italians/Romans are imperialists. They finaince their lifestyles off other people’s misery.
Black people’s misery. Blacks are the targets of this imperialism, and as a result it is IMPERITIVE they learn empathy, for this has been the case back to the age of Pharroh.
Imperialist pigs are an important dynamic to implimenting the god’s strategies on this planet. As a result most Italians will be compensated with some time. Blacks will not be so lucky because they fail to recognize the difference between preditor and prey.
The gods ARE responsible for the evil of their technology. Their attempts to position away this culpability is a tactic, one they will use to further shrink the number of disfavoreds who suceed.
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