A Pastor’s True Calling
Huckabee and Vigneault eventually had a falling-out once the governor dropped 110 pounds, began running marathons and started a public-health crusade. Vigneault and his tobacco client were disappointed when Huckabee signed a statewide ban on smoking in the workplace. "I just felt like he was betraying some of the people who helped him when he needed it," Vigneault says.
If Huckabee's campaign continues to gain strength, he can count on hearing other unwelcome voices from the past. "You'll find plenty of people who will say I was the sorriest thing that sucked air into lungs," he says. But that's just politics. For now, he's focusing all his attention on winning Iowa. Last Monday, after word broke that Huckabee had topped Romney in a new Des Moines Register poll, the former governor took a tour of a finance company in that city. Overnight, his entourage of reporters and photographers had tripled. The swarm was so big that it overtook the narrow hallways and forced the firm's astonished employees to flatten themselves against the wall to avoid getting crushed. Boom mikes bumped pricey artwork. A cameraman, walking backward as he filmed the candidate, knocked a glass door off its hinges.
Huckabee was his usual jovial self, cracking jokes and putting well-wishers at ease. But there are still signs that Huckabee's underfunded, understaffed campaign hasn't yet caught up with its own poll numbers. The next day, when a reporter asked Huckabee to comment on the big news of the day—an intelligence report that indicated Iran had halted its nuclear program—the candidate shook his head and admitted he hadn't even heard of it. He blamed it on 20-hour campaign days that don't always leave time to read the newspaper. The episode led to chatter among his Iowa supporters that, much as they like him, they worry he won't get his act together—and keep it together—before the Jan. 3 caucuses. Huckabee doesn't seem that worried. At a stop that day, he once again mentioned the parable of the two fish and five loaves. As a candidate, he holds fast to his pastor's belief that, somehow, God will provide.
With Gretel C. Kovach, Sarah Elkins, Suzanne Smalley and Sarah Kliff
© 2007
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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?
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Posted By: wendymae @ 05/29/2008 12:50:28 AM
Comment: Mike Huckabee is correct when he stated success comes from above. God allows us yo be in the right place at the right time. However, God expects us to put forth an effort and do the right thing. Those who rely only on their ambitions sometime reach success, but it can be taken away. Governor Huckabee was my choice to represent our great nation as the next President of the USA. Family values have dropped to an all time low I feel that if family values and our love pof our fellow man were brought back into our lives, some of the many issues og today could be instrumental in uniting oujr great country. Thank you Governor for your stance and you represented yourself well. God Bless you and your lovely family. Martha Morgan birmingham alabama
Posted By: J Druid @ 02/24/2008 9:46:18 AM
Comment: Clinton and Obama make me want to puke. McCain is a Clinton wannabe who basically is more Pro-War. All three of these fools who keep talking about how much they care about the American people, voted YEA (Yes) to authorize the Patriot Act, which undermines all of our civil liberties (urban, rural, whatever). If the average American knew what these crack pot politicians were doing to our basic rights as American citizens, I think they would be outraged (well, may be I am wrong on that point, but they really should be in my opinion). Huckabees supports the Patriot Act as well.
Please, please, please. I hope a Third Party is going to emerge that will call for the Repeal of the Patriot Act, as well as oppose the McHuckClinObama train wreck policies of bigger government, more subsidies, less civil rights, and higher taxes. Too bad Ron Paul can't get the media exposure necessary to mount an effective campaign.