Huckabee plays Hardballl
Mike Huckabee will be appearing tonight on Hardball with Chris Matthews…
Tonight Republican presidential candidate Gov. Mike Huckabee plays “Hardball,” 5-6 p.m. ET on MSNBC. Huckabee will talk to host Chris Matthews about last night’s Republican presidential debate, considered by some to be contentious. Huckabee has recently been moving up in polls among Republican voters. A transcript will be available following tonight’s telecast.
It was an okay interview, I guess, but there’s one exceedingly important point that Chris Matthews misses entirely: if a candidate insists on invoking his or her faith as a campaign theme (as most candidates of both parties are doing - it seems to be all the rage these days), then questions that go to the nature and extent of that faith are not only appropriate but necessary.
Comment by berberry — November 29, 2007 @ 7:08 pm
What did you want Berberry - to see if Huckabee could recite by memory passages from the Bible? Is that your standard for devoutness or does he need to talk in tongues as well on national television?
Personally, I say save that crap for Fox News and the 700 club.
Comment by elmonica — November 30, 2007 @ 1:48 am
I don’t remember anyone being asked to speak in tounges or recite bible passages, el. I do remember a question about biblical innerency, and it wasn’t the least bit inappropriate.
Mike Huckabee talks a lot about his belief in the bible and in Jesus. He says the bible guides his thinking and his judgement. Therefore, questions that probe the specifics of what he believes of and about the bible are entirely relevant.
The bible is indeed crap to thinking people; I couldn’t agree more! But here we have a man who is a pastor in a religion that insists believers must accept the bible as literal truth. This man wants to be our president and thus to make decisions and judgements for us. Since those decisions and judgements are to be influenced by faith in an inerrant text, and given Huckabee’s (and other’s, too) very public faith in the bible, how can it possibly be irrelevent or even unimportant to ask questions about the specifics of his belief in the bible? Why must we leave such questions to Fox News?
Oh, and for the record, I don’t think Southern Baptists speak in tounges. Pentecostals do, though. So if a Pentecostal preacher ever runs for president, then I suppose a question about speaking in tounges would be appropriate.
Comment by berberry — November 30, 2007 @ 3:10 am
Excuse me, I should have said “the idea of the bible as an inerrent text” - first sentence, third paragraph above. Sorry. I didn’t mean to imply that ANY belief in the bible is silly or that the book is entirely “crap”.
Comment by berberry — November 30, 2007 @ 3:15 am