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Robert Novak published a Washington Post column yesterday that has two of its main subjects – Mike Huckabee and Michael Farris – voicing strong objections.
Cushioning the statement with lots of disclaimers, Novak said an anonymous, “experienced, credible activist in Christian politics” told him Huckabee “embraced the concept that an Obama presidency might be what the American people deserve. That fits what has largely been a fringe position among evangelicals: that the pain of an Obama presidency is in keeping with the Bible’s prophecy.” The source also said homeschool activist Mike Farris privately embraces the same view.
Novak noted that both Huckabee and Farris denied the source’s claim, and they did so again after Novak published his column. Huckabee told ABC News the rumor was “total and absolute nonsense!” and the “unnamed source” was an “unbrained source.” On his Huckablog, he demanded, “Where do people dream up this stuff?” If Huckabee really is, as rumored, McCain’s top pick for vice president, the information is even less likely to be true, and there’s even more reason to loudly deny it.
Mike Farris told God-o-Meter, “I’m not supportive of the Obama presidency for any reason,” although he hasn’t endorsed McCain and told God-o-Meter he won’t mobilize evangelicals to campaign for him.
The column continues the discussion of where the evangelical vote will go this election. Farris’ position, says God-o-Meter, is an example of McCain’s main problem: Evangelicals may pull the lever for McCain but they won’t campaign for him. In the meantime, Democrats are intensifying their efforts to win religious-minded voters. The Plank’s Christopher Orr speculates that “a good many non-extreme Christians” will consider Obama as “clearly the more religious of the two candidates, a man who speaks, and has written, evocatively about the role of faith in his life.”
But will it work? Spiritual Politics’ Mark Silk points out that a Sunday Rasmussen poll found that evangelicals support McCain 69 percent to 28 percent — possible evidence that most evangelicals don’t share the view that the “plague” of an Obama presidency is just what America needs.
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Whoever America gets will be what America deserves. Considering the front runners, it really doesn’t make a whole lot of difference and it has absolutely nothing to do with prophecy. Everyone wants to be in the generation that doesn’t die but is raptured…what a messed up eschatology.
1st of all, the United States of America is never mentioned in the Bible. Point in Fact, the Book of Daniel only alludes to a revived form of the Roman Empire.
As to Mr. Novak’s column, Mr Novak, although a conservative fiscally, he is not a moral conservative and he has a particular disdain for Christians.
What bothers Mr. Novak is the fact that Governor Huckabee will not check his faith at the door when he enters the public square as government official.
I read Novak’s column yesterday and at the time I though “What a bunch of hogswill.” Novak clearly has an agenda in publishing this column and anymore, I have no respect for reporters who don’t name their sources. Unless being named will result in some physical danger or adverse employment circumstances, (personal embarrassmant does not qualify), sources who refuse to be named cannot be trusted as far as I’m concerned. This is nothing more than an attempt to tar Huckabee and Farris as right wing Christian whack jobs.
There are so many factors involved in evaluating a presidency that hasn’t even been attained yet that no one can possibly do it. Not only is there nothing about Obama’s career in government that is all that definitive — he doesn’t have a lot of legislation to his credit even for a starting point — but no one can predict what will happen anywhere in the world. You can’t predict earthquakes and volcanoes, and you can’t know when another 9/11 or Chernobyl will happen either. There are some events that just happen when they happen.
Even if one thinks an Obama presidency would be a “plague,” we also have a Congress and the Courts, not to mention the people who also play a role, as well as the media who want to be relevant. We get surprised all the time.
So, Klasko is right: “This is nothing more than an attempt to tar Huckabee and Farris as right wing Christian whack jobs.” It’s an attempt to keep those Hillary dems who sneer at the word “evangelicals” from jumping the party’s ship to vote for McCain.
This is nothing more than an attempt to tar Huckabee and Farris as right wing Christian whack jobs.
And they’re not?
Coming from you, Spinoza, I’d take that with a grain of salt. You come off like nearly everyone you meet on WBG is a right wing Christian whack job.
Well given the Huckabee just joked about Obama getting shot, I somehow doubt he is campaigning on Obama’s behalf.
-Mac
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