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I Love This Story ....
Topic Started: Dec 28 2007, 02:31 PM (96 Views)
QuirtEvans
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I Owe It All To John D'Oh
and I hope 89th learns something from it.

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Huckabee's support is grounded in the community of evangelical Christians in Iowa, but his speech included no calls for a constitutional amendment to ban abortion or talk about gays and lesbians. He spoke of the sanctity of life and used story-telling to remind the audience that none of them are free agents in deciding right from wrong.

One lengthy story involved one of his sons, who was apparently difficult at a young age and who was left behind at home one day while the rest of the family went out. When Huckabee returned, his son presented him with a cake he had just baked -- a cake that turned out be inedible.

His son, attempting to interpret unfamiliar phrases in the recipe, decided that "a dash of salt" meant a cup of salt -- and in doing so, ruined the cake. The audience was in stitches as Huckabee described the result, a cake no human could eat, but as he said, if you set it outside, the cows would lick it for a week.

Then came the message. "My son did not set out to do anything that turned out so horrible," he said. "His motives were pure. His actions were admirable. He was dedicated to the task. And he intended in every way to do something good. But he made one colossal mistake. My son had made his own definition of what a dash meant.... When we start defining right and wrong with our own definitions...no matter how well intentioned we are, no matter how sincere, the result is a disaster."




http://blog.washingtonpost.com/the-trail/2...ml?hpid=topnews

Huckabee is another man I could see myself voting for, even though I fundamentally disagree with him on many things.

It would be unwise to underestimate what large groups of ill-informed people acting together can achieve. -- John D'Oh, January 14, 2010.
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ivorythumper
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I am so adjective that I verb nouns!
He was probably a good preacher in the pulpit.
The dogma lives loudly within me.
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