# Mike Huckabee, annointed by God. **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 5, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327 "2007-11-05T19:28:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/21 "2007-11-06T19:53:02Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Me neither, but Mike Huckabee didn’t make any such claim. [/QUOTE] Well, he was apparently perfectly willing to ACCEPT the endorsement. He was standing right there. ---
**Author:** ![eleanorigby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/ee7513/32.png) [@eleanorigby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eleanorigby)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/22 "2007-11-06T22:16:15Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Well, he was apparently perfectly willing to ACCEPT the endorsement. He was standing right there. [/QUOTE] Then again, he didn’t correct the senator bit, so perhaps he’s hard of hearing? Or God was speaking _sotto voice_ to him right at that moment? Or perhaps he was wondering where he left his yarmulke? ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2007, 10:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/23 "2007-11-06T22:36:05Z")
You misunderstand. Huck doesn’t need to listen. He _knows_ what’s going to happen. > [@](#): > > Then Huckabee compared the future to an Arkansas Razorback basketball victory - tape-delayed and rebroadcast, but with the outcome never in doubt. > > He compared that broadcast to the end times outlined in the book of Revelation, the apocalyptic final book in the New Testament. “Cheat just a little bit, and just go read the back of the book, because guess what? In the end, we do win this thing. > > “Whatever the score is late in the fourth quarter, hang on, because when the final whistle blows, Jesus is Lord and that’s what matters.” ---
**Author:** ![AskNott](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asknott/32/5790_2.png) [@AskNott](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AskNott)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/24 "2007-11-07T04:23:53Z")
Yarmulkes? Oy vey, it’s those **Jews For Jesus** goyim again. They won’t be happy until they’re on everybody’s cult list. There’s a subtle, but important difference between a candidate speaking in a church and that church’s pastor endorsing a candidate from the pulpit. The candidate is not a tax-exempt leader of a church, so he can sing his own praises anywhere. The preacher, as an individual, outside the church building, can back any candidate. The same preacher, in the church, speaking to his flock, cannot endorse a candidate without jeopardizing his church’s tax-exempt status. I am not a constitutional scholar, so I can’t quote the necessary court decisions, but that’s the way this curious bargain works. The government shall not help the church, and the church shall not help (pay taxes to) the government. Each pretty much keeps its hands off the other, or the deal’s off. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/25 "2007-11-07T16:32:56Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] Well, he was apparently perfectly willing to ACCEPT the endorsement. He was standing right there. [/QUOTE] Yeah, he should have taken off his shoe and beaten the minister with it. Maybe overturn a few tables while he was at it. At any rate, [other articles](http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-huckabee_05met.ART.State.Edition1.41dad53.html) paint a different picture of events. Huckabee was delivering the church’s sermon, not making a campaign pitch a la Democrats. Not that you’ll acknowledge the difference, but still. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/26 "2007-11-07T17:05:09Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Yeah, he should have taken off his shoe and beaten the minister with it. Maybe overturn a few tables while he was at it. [/quote] Anybody with any shame would have pointedly (but verbally) rejected such an absurd declaration. He was literally introduced as a Messiah (an “anointed” ruler, chosen by God). It was incredibly crass for Huckabee to stamp such an asinine statement as anything but grossly inappropriate, presumptuous and sacrilegious. > [@](#): > > At any rate, [other articles](http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/politics/local/stories/DN-huckabee_05met.ART.State.Edition1.41dad53.html) paint a different picture of events. Huckabee was delivering the church’s sermon, not making a campaign pitch a la Democrats. Not that you’ll acknowledge the difference, but still. Did I say Huckabee was making a campaign speech? Did I say I cared whether he spoke at the church at all? I was just pointing out that your own observation that Huckabee didn’t personally say he was God’s anointed was disingenuous in light of the fact that he was only too happy to accept it. Also, the political endorsement by the pastor was unmistakable, so let’s not pretend the event was not political (not that I care, particularly, but at least be intellectually honest about it). Also, I’m not a Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/27 "2007-11-07T18:51:36Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] I was just pointing out that your own observation that Huckabee didn’t personally say he was God’s anointed was disingenuous in light of the fact that he was only too happy to accept it. [/quote] Bullshit. You should be more like Huckabee. As he told Jon Stewart, “Yeah, I’m a conservative, but I’m not mad at anybody about it.” He took the anointing metaphor (if it really happened — still no independent collaboration) as he would any compliment, with humility and graciousness. > [@](#): > > Also, I’m not a Democrat. Me neither. ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/28 "2007-11-07T19:08:18Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] Bullshit. You should be more like Huckabee. As he told Jon Stewart, “Yeah, I’m a conservative, but I’m not mad at anybody about it.” He took the anointing metaphor (if it really happened — still no independent collaboration) as he would any compliment, with humility and graciousness. [/quote] If someone calls you a Messiah, the only gracious thing to do is demur. Accepting the accolade as valid is arrogant and sacrilegious. I have no idea what relevance your Daily Show quote is supposed to have either to this thread or to me. ---
**Author:** ![Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b3f665/32.png) [@Sophistry\_and\_Illusion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sophistry_and_Illusion)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/29 "2007-11-07T20:34:34Z")
[QUOTE=Diogenes the Cynic] If someone calls you a Messiah, the only gracious thing to do is demur. Accepting the accolade as valid is arrogant and sacrilegious. [/QUOTE] “Only the true Messiah would deny His divinity!” ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/30 "2007-11-07T21:29:01Z")
[QUOTE=Liberal] He took the anointing metaphor (if it really happened — still no independent collaboration) as he would any compliment, with humility and graciousness. [/QUOTE] I live in Arkansas, and I don’t recall Huck ever being humble or gracious. He’s more of an “I’m right and you’re some kind of nut” guy. Were he a Doper, he’d spend a lot of time in the Pit. Here’s a mention in the [Arkansas Times](http://www.arktimes.com/blogs/arkansasblog/) that compares the religious reference to, well, 1999. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [November 7, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/31 "2007-11-07T23:47:27Z")
He seemed humble and gracious with [Jon Stewart](http://www.indecision2008.com/blog.jhtml?c=vc&videoId=80701). Jon liked him muchly. So did the audience. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2007, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327/32 "2007-11-08T00:26:28Z")
Jon should have asked him about raising the minimum wage in Arkansas. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mike-huckabee-annointed-by-god/425327.md?page=1)