Huckabee signs 'No Amnesty' pledge

Huckabee signs 'No Amnesty' pledge

TIGERVILLE, S.C. – Gov. Mike Huckabee, the most vocal anti-illegal-immigration candidate of late, has now become the first in the field to sign the "No Amnesty" pledge from NumbersUSA, a self-proclaimed "immigration-reduction organization."

Huckabee signed the pledge Wednesday on the campus of North Greenville University, where he spoke to students at the Christian college. The pledge calls, in part, for no "amnesty or any other special path to citizenship for the millions of the foreign nationals unlawfully present in the United States.”

Through much of the campaign, other candidates, particularly Gov. Mitt Romney, called Huckabee weak on immigration, focusing on his support as governor for college scholarships for children of illegal immigrants in Arkansas.
"In all due respect, we are a better country than to punish children for what their parents did. We're a better country than that," Huckabee told Romney at the YouTube debate last November.

Huckabee has surely shifted the focus since then, such as earlier this week when he said that the government should put immigration on "hiatus" from countries "that sponsor terrorists."

On Wednesday, at an earlier stop in Travelers Rest – yes, that's the name of the town – Huckabee backed off that statement slightly, never mentioning the word "hiatus."
"I think we just need to do a more thorough job of insuring that when people come here and they come from nations that have been designated by the State Department as terrorist nations, that we are diligent in the background search," Huckabee said.

I think that the no amnesty act is wrong these people come here looking for a better life and they treat them horribly. I don't approve of people comming here illegally. At least give these people a chance to get their citizenship before you deport them.

Edwards at Odds with Clinton and Obama Over Nuclear Power

Edwards at Odds with Clinton and Obama Over Nuclear Power

In Tuesday night’s Democratic presidential debate in Las Vegas, the three candidates—Hillary Clinton, John Edwards, and Barack Obama—clashed over the issue of nuclear power and what to do about Yucca Mountain, a national repository for nuclear waste that is opposed by many Nevada voters.

The dispute began when Clinton said that Edwards voted in support of the nuclear waste facility, while she had “consistently and persistently been against” it. She also claimed that one of Obama’s supporters—the Exelon Corporation—was involved in funding the project.

In response to Clinton’s remarks, Edwards implied that he had changed his decision based on new scientific information and forged documentation that had emerged regarding the waste dump. He added that, unlike Senator Obama and Senator Clinton, he is completely opposed to the building of more nuclear power plants—a point he so often makes when addressing voters on the campaign trail. Edwards said that Obama is “open to the possibility of additional power plants” and that Clinton has said she is “agnostic” on the subject.

Obama defended himself, saying that he has long been a critic of Yucca Mountain, yet added that the country should “create a menu of energy options” in handling the storage of nuclear waste and “see where the science and the technology and the entrepreneurship of the American people take us.”

The debate over nuclear power will undoubtedly influence Nevada voters, particularly those who are undecided, in the state’s caucuses on Saturday. Polls indicate that an overwhelming number of Nevadans, both Republicans and Democrats, strongly oppose federal plans to dump the nation’s nuclear waste at Yucca Mountain—and believe it to be a key issue in deciding which presidential candidate to caucus for.

I agree with Edwards even though it is hurting the environment we still have to put the waste some where.

Romney wins in Michigan

Romney wins in Michigan

Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor, has won the Republican primary in Michigan.

His win over John McCain not only gave his campaign for the US presidential nomination a big boost after runner-up finishes in Iowa and New Hampshire, it further threw open a Republican presidential race with no clear frontrunner.

Three different men have now won the first three significant Republicans contests: McCain in New Hampshire last week and Mike Hukabee, the former Arkansas governor, in Iowa on January 3.

Hukabee, who placed third in New Hampshire, came in third again on Tuesday.
the Democratic primary, Hillary Clinton won but a dispute over the date of the vote led the national party to strip the state of its delegates to the nominating convention later this year, in effect rendering Tuesday's vote of no consequence.

Instead, Clinton and rivals Barack Obama and John Edwards were set to square off in an evening debate in Nevada, where the party's next contest is on Saturday

It's not really a surprise that Romney won he was bound to win it since his dad was governor of Michigan.

Obama can win the race

Obama can win the race

Barack Obama is the first viable black American candidate for the presidency. He has the wit to realize that if he panders to "special interests" and is seen as the candidate of the blacks, he has no chance of succeeding; thus his efforts to reach a wide audience have seen him characterized as "not black enough".

Many of us are waiting to see whether Obama will add flesh in terms of policies to the brilliance of his oratory. But what cannot be denied is his huge intelligence. Last week in this magazine, Andrew Stephen suggested that "far from being the brilliant student . . . Obama was a consistently B-grade pupil", who ended up at a none-too-great liberal arts college before moving to Columbia University and then Harvard Law School. But this trajectory could not be achieved by a B-grade brain. Columbia is very competitive and places at Harvard Law School are highly prized.

Obama went on to become the first black president of the Harvard Law Review, the most prestigious of legal journals, which had been an exclusionary zone to women and blacks. He was the first black person to break the barrier.

Obama's political team has been criticised for allowing the media to interview his very elderly Kenyan "grandmother". Stephen wrote: "The only problem was that the woman in rural Kenya was not Obama's grandmother but the alleged foster mother of Obama's father." Obama has written about his father's foster mother, who was not his birth mother but was in every other respect his parent. It should not be presented as a manufactured relationship.

There have been suggestions that Obama's opposition to the war may be a recent invention since he was not able to vote in the Senate in 2002. But Obama was in the Illinois state legislature and, unlike Hillary Clinton, was highly vocal in his opposition to the war.

Nor is it true that there is little difference politically between the leading Democrats. There is an important difference. The only Democratic candidate who does not totally oppose "enhanced interrogation techniques" is Clinton. She has said there may be circumstances in which special methods of interrogation might be used on the authorisation of the president. Such a position is an assault on the absolute prohibition on torture. Politicians who betray their ideals to secure power rarely recover those ideals once in office.

Obama is now being patronised as a "kid" and a purveyor of "fairy tales" by Bill Clinton. These insults echo a past in which black people in America were not dignified with adulthood but were referred to as "boys".

I think Obama can win the race after the way he has been campaigning and how his the gained the popularity of people.