Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 6:46:41 AM
Comment: IMPORTANT BULLETIN FOR ALL BLOGGERS ON THIS SITE:
TO NEWSWEEK STAFF:
This is to report that there is a FRAUD going on, on this site, in which bloggers are using the names of various bloggers (Obama supporters are most likely the culprits) who are fraudulently writing blogs that are deplorable and tagging them under other bloggers names (non-Obama supporters names). I officially reported such a fraudulent abusive use of fake postings that I just viewed on this site today that affected me personally. This is what it said in which the blogger fraudulently used my name as the poster:
IT SAID THIS. I NEVER WROTE THIS. SO ALL OTHER POSTERS, ESPECIALLY FORMER HILLARY SUPPORTERS, BEWARE:
Posted By: sharenews @ 06/11/2008 03:05:43
Comment: I agree. So why do so many Obama supporters make him out to be a Messiah?
I NEVER wrote the above comment or ANY mention of Obama being a Messiah. At this point I am ready to bring this abusive process that you are using on your site to FOX NEWS as I have done this before and they are very responsive. I have copied this report to send onto the media if I dont see a stop to the smearing of my name or others on this site moving forward!
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Confident and smooth, Huckabee seemed headed for a career in politics. Instead, he was to take an unexpected detour. His minister asked him to deliver a sermon at church. Huckabee was nervous, but to his surprise, he loved the experience. He shocked friends by telling them he was going to be a preacher, and enrolled at local Ouachita Baptist University. Even then, though, he recalls thinking that the pulpit wasn't his true destination. "I think my life was always headed for politics, although for a time it was diverted to the pastorate," he writes in "Character Makes a Difference," his political memoir.
It was a lengthy diversion. Huckabee would spend the next 19 years in service to the church. After his first year in college, he married his high-school sweetheart, Janet McCain. He earned rent money by working at the local radio station between classes and preached Sunday sermons in a small church. Mike and Janet were still newlyweds when a health scare tested their faith. Janet was found to have a large tumor on her spine. The doctors told him she could die. Instead, the tumor was easily removed with surgery, and despite predictions that Janet would not be able to have children, the couple has three grown kids. (Huckabee's daughter and two sons work for his campaign.)
In the late 1970s, evangelicals began bringing the emotional power of the tent revival to television. Huckabee, just out of seminary, found work with James Robison, a charismatic TV preacher in Dallas, who taught him how to appear natural while speaking into a camera lens. Part of Huckabee's job was to introduce his boss to the television audience each Sunday. But Robison's rumpled prot?g?, with his unfashionable clothes and down-at-the-heel shoes, was hardly ready for prime time. Robison marched him to a department store and bought him four new suits. "You're sharp," he told Huckabee. "You need to look sharp."
In 1980, Ronald Reagan gave a speech before a large gathering of evangelicals in Dallas. Huckabee was one of the organizers and got to meet Reagan. It was then that the young minister first recognized the influence people of faith could have in Washington, D.C., and saw the political power of the pulpit.
Huckabee was ready to lead a congregation of his own. He returned to Arkansas and took over flocks in Pine Bluff and, later, Texarkana. He started television and radio ministries to broadcast sermons and other Christian programs. "Brother Mike" had a soothing style of preaching that drew on his own experiences. "Everyone was impressed," says David Haak, a deacon at Beech Street First Baptist Church in Texarkana. "He delivers a message you can remember, with humor mixed in. We just loved him, all the way through."
In Pine Bluff, Huckabee tested that love. The Immanuel Baptist Church was an all-white congregation when Huckabee took over the pulpit. One day he announced that a young black man, who heard his sermon on the radio, had asked to worship with them. Huckabee welcomed him to their pews. Some church elders were furious and refused to let the man sit with them. Huckabee threatened to quit unless his guest was greeted warmly. A few members quit in protest, but the rest of the congregation went along. (The church is now integrated.)
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