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Mercnbeth -> RE: Is Huckabee done as a Pres.candidate (12/1/2009 9:42:26 AM)
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Huckabee's won't be heard from again - other than as a reference for pardoning criminals. The ex-Arkansas governor said that Clemmons was a “misguided fool” when he committed the crimes and “learned through the school of hard knocks to appreciate and respect the rights of others.” Clemmons will forever be associated with Huckabee as Willie Horton was connected with Michael Dukakis. Another indication of the similarity between the parties.
Other repercussions? Well, I hope there isn't anyone with family or friends up for parole or pardon; isn't setting an extra plate for the holidays.
It will be an interesting dilemma to address by both camps in the death penalty / clemency debate. If his 108 year sentence wasn't commuted, 4 police officers would be planning to celebrate their holidays with their families instead of their families planning their funeral. But there are no 'bad' people in the world right? Only bad circumstances, poor upbringing, social injustice and other factors out of the control of the criminal. So Huckabee was doing the 'Christian' thing - forgiving and giving another chance. I guess that all qualifies him as a liberal. Could he change his party napkin color and run as a Democrat?
I remember a woman in Texas, Karla Faye Tucker, who killed a couple of people with a pick ax and played up her 'born again Christian' status to try and avoid the death penalty. Although clemency was denied, it raised a point that goes back to the Christian practice of the 'Inquisition'. Under the torture of living under a death sentence, the now renamed 'victim', recanted her past actions "accepted god in her life" and confessed to her sins. Fortunately, despite the cries from fellow Christians, born again or not, she was executed; with god in her heart and a pure, clean soul. As was the case of Winston Smith in the last page of Orwell's 1984; she should have been grateful to her executioner since she died with the unqualified belief in 'Big Brother' and all He represented as fact.
Not only is Huckabee a non-factor in future elections. He has done for 'Christian' forgiveness what the global warming religion has done to science.
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