This man is MY GOVERNOR?

[Craig3410]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/top10/01/top10_2001_29.html

Mike Huckabee, Governor of Arkansas, is not exactly well known for his smarts. Previous gaffes have included calling his own state a banana republic, and praising a website that joked about killing Bill Clinton. But a report in last week's Knoxville News-Sentinel has given Governor Mike a big push all the way to the top of this week's chart. The News-Sentinel revealed that Huckabee was recently tricked by a Canadian broadcaster into believing that Canada's Parliament building was actually made out of ice, and recorded a message of support to the Canadian people. "Hi, I'm Mike Huckabee of Arkansas," said the Governor without a hint of irony, "wanting to say, 'Congratulations, Canada, on preserving your national igloo.'" And before you start sending us e-mails suggesting that "surely nobody could be that pig-ignorant" - we didn't make this up.

When Arkansas rapist Wayne Dumond was freed on parole there some inquiry into Governor Mike Huckabee's role in his release. Oh no, not me, said Huckabee - I had nothing to do with it. Whoops - it turns out that the Arkansas Times has done a little digging and discovered that not only did Mike Huckabee work feverishly behind the scenes to have Dumond released, he then lied about it. In fact, according to the Times, Huckabee's effort "was a process marked by deviation from accepted parole practice and direct personal lobbying by the governor, in an apparently illegal and unrecorded closed-door meeting with the parole board." For some reason Huckabee kept insisting that there was DNA evidence that proved Dumond's innocence, even though there wasn't. And apparently Huckabee told the parole board that he thought Dumond got a "raw deal." Shame he can't tell that to the girl that Dumond went on to rape and murder less than a year after Huckabee had him released. So why did Huckabee want so badly to free Dumond? Why, it's Bill Clinton's fault, if you can believe that! Dumond's first victim, Ashley Stevens, is a distant relation of the former president, and Huckabee so disliked Clinton that he thought Dumond had been set up. Oh dear. So do you think Huckabee has trouble sleeping at night? Don't bet on it.

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[havocmom]

1. Come to Montana. Our Gov rocks!

Jag for first dog... in a few years. ;)

[Clark2008]

2. This is the name nutso who "accepted" a cell phone call from God

while giving a speech to the Republican Governors' Conference.

Bravo to my old newspaper (I worked there for two years) for bringing the Canadian situation to light, btw.

[autorank]

3. My condolences....what a complete idiot. Great read!

Here in Virginia, we almost had Jerry Kilgore, a Pat Robertson clone, as governor. We had to endure him for four years as State Attorney General. I was ready to move if he'd won (and I have NO desire to leave, he's just that bad).

Now you've exposed me to a whole new level of political horror. The last story is the clincher. They ought to have old Huck spend a night with the guy he freed who re-offended. Male bonding would do old Huck a world of good.

Damn, that's just about as bad as it gets. Kilgore would be a real step up for you guys because, despite his politics, no one really questioned his intelligence.

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[Betsy Ross]

4. Thank goodness.

From the subject line I was sure it was Schwartzenegger(sp?) again.

[Kerrytravelers]

5. This has to be the most bizarre "Clinton's to Blame" I have ever heard!

[ronnykmarshall]

6. Try having this for gov .....

[Kerrytravelers]

16. I believe the probes weren't just a prop. They were real and ruined

his common sense and decency.

[sinkingfeeling]

7. While I think Huckabee would be a terrible president of anything except

the Southern Baptist Convention, I won't buy the story on Dumond. This man was castrated by a mob, possibly led by the county sheriff, prior to standing trial for the Clinton relative's rape. I found it hard to believe that he raped and murdered the woman after his release.

[lyonn]

9. Any backup on the castration story?

[sinkingfeeling]

13. Here's a couple of links...

<snip>DuMond had been accused of raping a Clinton cousin in 1984 and was hog-tied and castrated before he even went to trial.

He used to be enraged about it, especially when the cracker sheriff, who was a pal of the rape victim's father, scooped up DuMond's balls, put them in a jar, and showed them off.

"They were mine. Those were my testicles," DuMond told a sickened courtroom in 1988. "He didn't have no right to take them and he didn't have no right to show them around and he didn't have no right to flush them down the toilet."

http://www.villagevoice.com/news/0110,harkavy,22841,1.html


http://hometown.aol.com/patriot888/dumond.txt

[lyonn]

14. Now those are some bizarre stories!

Villagevoice and New York Post could easily have an axe to grind.

[sinkingfeeling]

15. Believe them. It happened. This is Arkansas!

[lyonn]

8. He's too stupid to have trouble sleeping

Like so many repubs he has all the right answers. The hell with facts.

[stop the bleeding]

10. We have Jeb BFEE nothing else needed to say.

[BlueIris]

11. Ew.

EW.

EW.

You should relocate.

[wryter2000]

12. Heck

I'll keep Ahhnuld. :evilgrin: