Posted by
jarhead on Tuesday, December 04, 2007 4:07:26 PM
I’ve listened to Mike Huckabee in small doses and I like what I hear. He’s actually quit refreshing until you examine his positions a little more closely. The underpinning of his weakness as a President is his position on evolution. He says he does not know for sure how it all happened but God did it, it took 6 periods of some sort of time and man’s existence is not traceable to an evolutionary process but instead just bloomed on the scene. This is based on his religious faith. Hard facts and rational thought are often the victims of faith. The Islamic terrorists who blow themselves up in the middle of crowds of children have absolute faith that they are doing the right thing. The fact that these children have done them no harm and could grow up to be of enormous benefit to mankind carries no weight in their decision-they kill based on faith alone. Faith is not the friend of reason nor of decisions that require pragmatism.
Mr. Huckabee’s position on immigration is an extension of his reliance on faith and lack of logical thinking. He believes that illegals in this country are deserving of educational benefits that legals have not only paid for but might not be able to provide to their children because of the illegal’s competition. The ‘logic’ from Mr. Huckabee is that we should not punish the children for the sins of the parents. My answer is don’t punish the children of legal parents for the sins of illegal parents. By Mr. Huckabee’s logic all the children of the world, if they could somehow sneak into the country, must taken under wing because they are innocent victims. That’s the logical extension of Mr. Huckabee’s position but he is operating from non-rational, non-logical perceptions based assuredly on the same faith that has him denying the scientific evidence of evolution. God only knows what other critical issues he would deal with through the very warped prism of his faith.
Faith, as I said before, is the enemy of reason and pragmatism. We need the leader of the most powerful nation on earth to be a person capable of the best possible reasoning powers and capable of making the pragmatic decisions that secure our nations continued success in the world. A man who would deny science and fact in favor of his faith has no place in the presidency.