The two remaining Republican presidential candidates, Mike Huckabee and John McCain, and the two remaining Democrat presidential candidates, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, at this stage of the nominating process can be viewed as allegorical card games. Huckabee and McCain are playing Old Maid. Clinton and Obama are playing a malodorously public game of strip poker.
The Washington Post ran an article about Mike Huckabee and what he would do to clear up the “birthright citizenship” quagmire the United States has been unwilling to pull itself out of. The article in part:
Huckabee vows to defy birthright citizenship
By Stephen Dinan Washingtonpost.com
January 8, 2008Mike Huckabee wants to amend the Constitution to prevent children born in the U.S. to illegal aliens from automatically becoming American citizens, according to his top immigration surrogate – a radical step no other major presidential candidate has embraced.
Mr. Huckabee, who won last week’s Republican Iowa caucuses, promised Minuteman Project founder James Gilchrist that he would force a test case to the Supreme Court to challenge birthright citizenship, and would push Congress to pass a 28th Amendment to the Constitution to remove any doubt.
Literally! Can the United States afford Mike Huckabee as President?
Mike Huckabee, breaking with traditional presidential campaign etiquette, is charging a fee for his speeches. But he will give a church a break on his customary fee of $25,000. Huckabee defended his continued métier, “if I don’t work, I don’t eat.” He is performing 2-3 paid speeches per month. He has unabashedly stated that he would like to do more since this is the only income he has.
Mike Huckabee is, without doubt, one of the more honorable candidates running for the 2008 presidential election. He appears to be a very principled man. He has very strong religious convictions and, when asked, will unabashedly tell you about them and elaborate without first consulting a focus group or seeking council from the latest poll regardless of how it may effect his candidacy. That is honorable and refreshing compared to other candidates who have become puppets on strings being manipulated by focus groups and polling numbers.
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