Copland III

Well, it’s less than twenty-four hours to go until the American election. While I’m not able to vote (I’m in the UK) we’ll all feel the consequences.

So no matter who you vote for, if you’re an American, please vote tomorrow. You won’t be in a position to complain about the government if you didn’t vote.

By far the most dangerous foe we have to fight is apathy – indifference from whatever cause, not from a lack of knowledge, but from carelessness, from absorption in other pursuits, from a contempt bred of self satisfaction. –William Osler

Mike Huckabee, looking like a fat Ian Hislop. (Image: David Ball/Wikipedia)

This week’s twerp is Mike Huckabee, who was dangerously close to becoming the Republicans’ nomination for President of the USA. The man’s as insane as Sarah Palin. Some of the things on his ridiculous tea-tray of policies and standpoints include:

• opposition to gay marriage
• the belief that homosexuality is unnatural and sinful
• the belief that creationism should be taught as an alternative to evolution, describing evolution as a ‘dogma’
• the belief that his sky fairy promised Israel to Jewish people
• the fact that he stands by (but no longer believes, I hasten to add) his 1992 statement that HIV patients should be quarantined: he now rejects this point of view, but he made this statement when we knew that HIV couldn’t spread via casual contact
• the belief that homosexuality causes disease
• the fact that he credited his god for his presidential campaign (it failed)
• the fact that he wants to ‘take the nation back for Christ’
• opposition to gay adoption
• the fact that if elected he wouldn’t change the US armed forces’ ridiculous ‘don’t ask, don’t tell’ policy
• the belief that carrying concealed weapons should be allowed
• the fact that he is against universal health care
• the fact that he supports displaying the Ten Commandments in schools
• the fact that he believes embryos with no nervous system are sentient beings
• the fact that by day, he’s a Southern Baptist minister

In short, he’s barmy. The scary thing is that we may have someone who is effectively Huckleberry, but in hockey mom casing, a heart attack away from the presidency in mere months.

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