Posted by
darrelmulloy on Wednesday, December 26, 2007 11:56:31 AM
If Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton could have somehow had a child, he would have been Mike Huckabee.
Clinton is the smooth talking salesman who could sell air conditioners to Eskimos, but couldn't tell the truth if his life depended on it.
Carter, on the other hand is the former Sunday school teacher who promised us that he would never lie to us.
Carter gave us price controls on gasoline, and while gas remained fairly cheap, we couldn't buy it except on alternate days. Gas stations closed in mass numbers across the nation, and all of those formerly employed by those stations joined the list of the unemployed. Interest rates soared to nealrly 20% and as a result consumer purchases for big ticket items, such as automobiles and homes dropped through the floor. In Iran, our embassy was taken hostage and Carter failed to do anything about it, short of an aborted rescue atempt.
Bill Clinton, the other man from Hope, gave us a new insight on what goes on in the oval office. His fundraising in exchange for the sale of some of our military weaponry to China was enough to call for his impeachment, but instead he was impeached for his extramarital activities in the oval office, with an intern young enough to be his daughter. But he played a pretty mean sax (that's sax with an "a") Huckabee is winning voters with his talent on bass guitar.
When I consider that Huckabee is a former minister (without theology degree) and another smooth talking man from Hope and former governor of Arkansas who spins his record in order to appeal to voters, all I can say is "fool me once, shame on you, fool me twice, shame on me!" I lived through Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton, and I don't want to take the chance with Huckabee.