Bon appetite, carnivores on the trail

Bon appetite, carnivores on the trail

Presidential candidates do not seem to be fussy eaters for the most part. Yet they have distinct dislikes, mostly from the veggie kingdom.
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DEMOCRATS:

New York Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton: "I like nearly everything. "I don't like, you know, things that are still alive."

Former North Carolina Sen. John Edwards: "I can't stand mushrooms. I don't want them on anything that I eat. And I have had to eat them because you get food served and it's sitting there and you're starving, so you eat."

Illinois Sen. Barack Obama: "Beets, and I always avoid eating them."

New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson: Mushrooms, specifically. "I'm not a big vegetable eater." Recalling the first President Bush's distaste for broccoli, he said: "I sympathize with that fully."

REPUBLICANS:

Former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani: Liver.

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee: "Carrots. I just don't like carrots. I banned them from the governor's mansion when I was governor of Arkansas because I could."

Arizona Sen. John McCain: "I eat almost everything. Sometimes I don't do too well with vegetables."

Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney: "Eggplant, in any shape or form. And I've always been able to avoid it."

Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson: "Not much. I've tried to do better about that. I jokingly say that we kind of have a diet around our house that if it tastes good, you don't eat it. I haven't quite got there yet. There's not much that I turn down. That's a good thing on the campaign trail because you get quite a variety."

Obviously we need to no everytrhing that ISN'T important about a candidate to vote for them, who cares about the real issues?

Huckabee rises to 2nd in GOP race

Huckabee rises to 2nd in GOP race

WASHINGTON - Mike Huckabee has vaulted from nowhere into second place in the Republican presidential race, riding a burst of support from evangelicals, Southerners and conservatives, a nationwide poll showed Friday.


The surge by the former Arkansas governor has come largely at the expense of Fred Thompson, according to the national survey by The Associated Press and Ipsos. Thompson has dropped after failing to galvanize the party's right-wing core as much as some had expected.

Rudy Giuliani remains the front-runner, yet while his support long has been steady it shows signs of fraying. Huckabee's growing strength in the South has come as the former New York mayor's support there has dropped, the poll found.

This tells me that maybe GOP voters aren't as religiously biased as they used to be

Hillary’s Secret Weapon: Colin Powell?

Hillary’s Secret Weapon: Colin Powell?

“I won’t even wait until I’m inaugurated, but as soon as I’m elected I’m going to be asking distinguished Americans of both parties — people like Colin Powell, for example, and others — who can represent our country well, including someone I know very well,” Mrs. Clinton said, according to a Fox News Web report. “Because I want to send a message heard across the world. The era of cowboy diplomacy is over.”

Would Mr. Powell be willing to carry water for Mrs. Clinton, and not-so-subtly rebuke Mr. Bush in the process? While Mr. Powell was chairman of the Joint Chiefs at the start of the Clinton administration, and served as a negotiator in Haiti for Mr. Clinton, there is no evidence that he is interested in serving Mrs. Clinton.

And how will anti-war Democratic voters in Iowa, New Hampshire and elsewhere feel about Mrs. Clinton’s suggestion that she wants one of the architects of the Iraq war to serve as a goodwill ambassador?

Mr. Powell’s assistant said he was out of the office today but had seen the news report from South Carolina. “He’s not been in touch with Senator Clinton in regards to this, and has no comment,”

This is the first thing Hillary has done that I approve of, but maybe she could choose a better republican for her bipartisan group.

Obama: My wife sees need for rural gun ownership

Obama: My wife sees need for rural gun ownership

From his days of campaigning in Downstate Illinois, Sen. Barack Obama has been asked plenty of times about his views on gun ownership.

But the Illinois Democrat and presidential candidate added a new wrinkle Saturday night while campaigning in conservative-leaning western Iowa, when he said his Chicago-native wife, Michelle, recently commented that she could see why rural folks might want to own guns.

Here was Obama's discussion of gun ownership and his wife's thoughts during a campaign stop at a middle school:

"We should be able to combine respect for those traditions with our concern for kids who are being shot down. This is a classic example of us just applying some common sense, just being reasonable, right? And reasonable would say that lawful gun owners – I respect the Second Amendment. I think lawful gun owners should be able to hunt, be sportsmen, protect their families."

This is a classic case of the media finding one minuscule part of a dialogue and twisting it to make someone look stupid. The media has an odd way of contorting the truth Barack Obama supports private ownership of guns as long as they are used correctly.

Huckabee: America Enslaved to Saudi Oil

Huckabee: America Enslaved to Saudi Oil

Consumers are financing both sides in the war on terror because of the actions of U.S. ally Saudi Arabia, Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee said Sunday.

The former Arkansas governor made the comments following what he suggested was a muted response by the Bush administration to a Saudi court's sentence of six months in jail and 200 lashes for a woman who was gang raped.

"The United States has been far too involved in sort of looking the other way, not only at the atrocities of human rights and violation of women," Huckabee said on CNN's "Late Edition."

"Every time we put our credit card in the gas pump, we're paying so that the Saudis get rich - filthy, obscenely rich, and that money then ends up going to funding madrassas," schools "that train the terrorists," said Huckabee. "America has allowed itself to become enslaved to Saudi oil. It's absurd. It's embarrassing."

Huckabee said "I would make the United States energy independent within 10 years and tell the Saudis they can keep their oil just like they can keep their sand, that we won't need either one of them."

I think this man is insane totally oil independent in ten years? That's impossible America can not afford newer technology to utilize ulterior sources of energy, the middle class can not afford these new cars and the government is in too much debt to finance them.

Transcript: Fred Thompson on 'FOX News Sunday'

Transcript: Fred Thompson on 'FOX News Sunday'

THOMPSON: Yep. Yep. It's maintaining the tax cuts that we had in 2001, 2003. It's eliminating the death penalty. It's reducing the corporate tax rate.

We have the second-highest corporate tax rate among our competing partners. It's hurting us competitively. We're probably losing revenue from it.

We have several other provisions in it, but another major one is an adoption, basically, of the approach that the House Republican study group has that would give taxpayers an option of continuing to file the way they do now or filing under a flatter plan where you only have two rates, but no exemptions past the personal exemption and no deductions.

So give that a try. And it would be a major move toward tax reform, which I think is greatly needed.

I believe fox is trying to attack Fred Thompson to hide their own republican base. Fred Thompson is a moderate republican and deserves more than he receives.