Here's a transcript-
STUDENT: Recent polls show you surging... What do you attribute this surge to?
HUCKABEE: There's only one explanation for it, and it's not a human one. It's the same power that helped a little boy with two fish and five loaves feed a crowd of five thousand people. (Applause) That's the only way that our campaign can be doing what it's doing. And I'm not being facetious nor am I trying to be trite. There literally are thousands of people across this country who are praying that a little will become much, and it has. And it defies all explanation, it has confounded the pundits. And I'm enjoying every minute of them trying to figure it out, and until they look at it, from a, just experience beyond human, they'll never figure it out. And it's probably just as well. That's honestly why it's happening.
God is telling voters to vote for Huckabee, and this..... person believes it. Since politicians are notorious for being surrounded by yes people, is the Huckabee entourage whispering in their candidate's ear. "Yes God does want you to be President."
The best line on this video comes from Jim Geraghty who wrote- "Wow. Huckabee's been endorsed by both Chuck Norris AND Jesus Christ."
Hat tip James Joyner at OTB who writes- "The irony is that Huckabee is saying this with sincere humility -- it's divine intervention, not the power of one mere man at work -- but it's an incredibly arrogant thing to say."
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Comments (5)
I'm a pro-freedom, pro-defe... (Below threshold)1. Posted by Kyle Haight | December 6, 2007 7:58 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
I'm a pro-freedom, pro-defense individualist. I should be a core GOP supporter. I'm also a strong secularist. If Huckabee receives the nomination, I will vote for the Democrat.
1. Posted by Kyle Haight | December 6, 2007 7:58 PM |
Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2007 19:58
2. Posted by bryanD | December 6, 2007 8:03 PM | Score: 0 (0 votes cast)
Uh-oh. Cornpone alert. Like the time Huck personalized the "You break it, you own it" allegory in the debate by having Aunt Bea play Colin Powell. Huck was Opie.
MY lesson for the Huckabee campaign from the fish and loaves vignette is that after Jesus fed the multitude and gave his discourse, the people did what? Did they go home satisfied? Nope.
They hung around waiting for another fish sandwich. They kept following Jesus, not letting Him out of their sight. Surely as the next mealtime approaches, more fish sandwiches, they thought. Finally Jesus commandeered a boat and ditched their ass.
True story.
2. Posted by bryanD | December 6, 2007 8:03 PM |
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Posted on December 6, 2007 20:03
3. Posted by Jim Addison | December 6, 2007 9:55 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Huckabee lacks the gravitas, for one thing, and he is no conservative on anything EXCEPT the social-moral issues.
The pundit class always focuses on the "horse race" aspect of presidential campaigns rather than the substance of what the candidates are saying. It's easier than comparing and contrasting Hillary's health care proposals with Obama's, Giuliani's tax proposals with Romney's, or Dennis Kucinich's alien abduction with Ron Paul's. Plus, even if the reporters/pundits did all that hard work, their average reader would doze off before the third paragraph and go elsewhere for the latest news on the Britney-Paris cat fight.
Huckabee is the media Flava of the Week. The odds are that the extra attention he is getting from good poll numbers in Iowa will give at least some of his supporters a closer look than they've had at his downsides, and his results will be somewhat less than predicted.
3. Posted by Jim Addison | December 6, 2007 9:55 PM |
Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2007 21:55
4. Posted by COgirl | December 6, 2007 10:24 PM | Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
I think this is a bit over the top and sort of turns my stomach. It makes me question his sincerity. He may really mean it, but this kind of talk will result in putting a Democrat in the White House.
4. Posted by COgirl | December 6, 2007 10:24 PM |
Score: -1 (1 votes cast)
Posted on December 6, 2007 22:24
5. Posted by Kyle Haight | December 7, 2007 2:00 PM | Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
It doesn't make me question his sincerity, it makes me question his sanity. I think it would actually be worse if he does mean it; the thought of someone whose mind works that way sitting in the Oval Office sends shivers down my spine.
5. Posted by Kyle Haight | December 7, 2007 2:00 PM |
Score: -2 (2 votes cast)
Posted on December 7, 2007 14:00