{"id":583,"date":"2007-12-12T10:31:41","date_gmt":"2007-12-12T14:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/12\/12\/dont-you-talk-about-my-god-like-that\/"},"modified":"2007-12-12T11:18:44","modified_gmt":"2007-12-12T15:18:44","slug":"dont-you-talk-about-my-god-like-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/2007\/12\/12\/dont-you-talk-about-my-god-like-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Don’t You Talk About (My) God Like That"},"content":{"rendered":"

TPM’s Election Central brings us another fine example<\/a> of Mike Huckabee’s priorities:<\/p>\n

As governor of Arkansas in 1997, Huckabee held up passage of a bill to protect storm victims from insurance companies \u00e2\u20ac\u201d thus creating a window of time for the companies to cancel people’s coverage \u00e2\u20ac\u201d on the grounds that the bill used the traditional legal term “acts of God”[.]<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Huh? You’re kidding, right? I mean, this must be some terribly unfair characterization by an opponent. Umm, no. His own words<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\nMr. Huckabee said that signing the legislation ”would be violating my own conscience” inasmuch as it described ”a destructive and deadly force as being ‘an act of God.’ ”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

That’s right. You better not talk bad about God in front of him. Or in a bill passed by the legislature.<\/p>\n

Governor Huckabee’s explained his objections in a letter to the bill’s authors, saying: ”I feel that I have indeed witnessed many ‘acts of God,’ but I see His actions in the miraculous sparing of life, the sacrifice and selfless spirit in which so many responded to the pain of others.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

He brings his crazy to work, folks. Don’t let the easy manner on television or his (seeming?) decency to the poor fool you.<\/p>\n


\nUpdate:<\/strong> However, here is a fantastic pro-Huckabee video<\/a>. Do check it out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

TPM’s Election Central brings us another fine example of Mike Huckabee’s priorities: As governor of Arkansas in 1997, Huckabee held up passage of a bill to protect storm victims from insurance companies \u00e2\u20ac\u201d thus creating a window of time for the companies to cancel people’s coverage \u00e2\u20ac\u201d on the grounds that the bill used the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=583"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/583\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blacknell.net\/dynamic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}