tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1658767945700927168.post5262115415950107951..comments2023-11-03T03:26:09.877-10:00Comments on Stranger In A Foreign Land: It Looks Like It's Happening - Let Your Servant Depart In PeaceLarry Perraulthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09036975077624213349noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1658767945700927168.post-48194435947958429162007-11-16T14:56:00.000-10:002007-11-16T14:56:00.000-10:00Okay, this is just a default dig, right? I have s...Okay, this is just a default dig, right? I have seen White speak at 5 or 6 political and pro-life events and been a delegate at two state Republican convetions where he was in my caucus. I also have been to his church 4 or 5 times. Most of this was in the 90's, and I probably have known hundreds of preachers in my lifetime, beginning with my father. I don't particularly favor "preachers." So, my "favorite preacher" is an outright ridiculous thing to talk about, particularly if you propose to designate who that is from your valley of unbounded ignorance. I think your social judgment has some critical holes in it. But, you often talk as though you are getting words from someone who can't even spell as well as you can. I can handle your misjudgments, but some of this crap is just tiresome.<BR/><BR/>All of that said, I know enough of Laurence White's scholarship to know that he could talk you under the table in both German and American history. I've told you this before, but you plainly have a noggin of solid granite. I know about argument and debate and confusing the logic and the subjects of an analogy is the most sophomoric of reasoning mistakes. For the last time, and I don't want to hear it again or I hopefully won't respond at all, rather than honestly describe your reaoning disposition:<BR/><BR/>White does not compare America with Nazism, else I would dismiss him. He compares the passivity of American CHRISTIANS with that of German Christians in the 30's. Perhaps it is beyond you to absorb and assimilate that, in which case you should avoid intelligent conversation.<BR/><BR/>1) Mike Huckabee has said he doesn't think there should be a third=party, and of course, he has declined to respond to questions about who or what he would be on a ticket with.<BR/><BR/>I have no aspiration to be what the one you refer to described as "normal." In order to be such I think would require the amputation of something I particularly prize.Larry Perraulthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09036975077624213349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1658767945700927168.post-1716057101401741402007-11-16T13:58:00.000-10:002007-11-16T13:58:00.000-10:00Some major issues remain that could derail the Huc...Some major issues remain that could derail the Huckabee campaign.<BR/><BR/>First, many of Huckabee's evangelical supporters have a "Mike or Nobody" approach to the election. Of course, they expect the 70% of Republicans who are NOT evangelicals to support Mike if he gets the nomination (unlikely, but possible). How does Mike stand on this issue? Will he support the Republican nominee if it is not him? And what does he say to his Mike-or-nobody followers? I'm sure he will be asked these questions.<BR/><BR/>Second, Mike has a major problem with some of his supporters. One gentleman who fits in that category is Larry's favorite preacher, Dr. Laurence White, who published a guest post on Mike's blog. Dr. White has written essays and given speeches in which he compared America to the Third Reich, Nazi Germany. White's intemperate statements (which show he knows nothing about either Germany or America) could come back to haunt Mike Huckabee. He should repudiate Dr. White rather quickly if he hopes to be a serious candidate for the nomination. If he agrees in any sense with Dr. White (in "God and Caesar") that America shares characteristics with Nazi Germany, then he should end his candidacy. He should at least explain why he reprinted an article by a man with such bizarre views.<BR/><BR/>"Sin in haste, repent at leisure."<BR/><BR/>Note: I am not against the extremist wing of the evangelical movement starting a third party. As many people know, I've concluded with some sadness that the Republican Party has to get back to a position where it attracts groups other than evangelicals -- what one observer called "normal people." The 5% or so of American voters who have this country confused with a theocracy have a right to assert their views, although I fear many of them would not grant that right to others. <BR/><BR/>steveStephen R. Maloneyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08113975776816271060noreply@blogger.com