I Want to Change America With Ballots Not Bullets

By Mike Huckabee

A poll this week from USA Today/Gallup shows President Obama enjoying impressive favorable ratings from most Americans. And those who view him as "strong and decisive" are up 12 percent from October.

I wish I could feel so giddy. Unlike the white haired disciple on MSNBC who gets a tingle up his leg when he hears the president read from a teleprompter, I only get a sharp pain in my gut. And this week has made me believe more than ever that the appropriate adjectives to describe the president's polices are not "strong and decisive" but "wrong and divisive."

The spending orgies have been disturbing enough. Add to that a level of government intervention and control of business and we're starting to look like Europe.

But the president's turning loose detailed intelligence documents, and then toying with the ridiculous notion of allowing criminal prosecutions for CIA and Bush administration officials for carrying out orders to combat terrorism has made me realize that we may have elected Barack Obama to sing on stage. But the Phantom of the Opera might be George Soros, the angry billionaire who has more money than he does decency and fronts his organization MoveOn.org, which ought to be renamed turnback.ugh, since he seems obsessed with the other George, as in Bush, who isn't even president anymore.

The whole MoveOn deal started when Soros spent a bunch of his money to tell America to forget that Bill Clinton had lied under oath in the Lewinsky scandal and we just needed to move on.

I hope that Soros will either move on or better yet, go broke. It would appear that Barack Obama is allowing the Soros agenda to be his, and it defies the kind of government he promised.

Barack Obama is the president and he has a right to push his agenda, even though some of us think that gargantuan spending and borrowing and smiling and making nice with despots is just plain wrong.

But he promised an administration that would rise above the old politics of Washington, and thus far, his has been so harshly partisan that one has to long for the old politics, because the new version is stunningly divisive.

According to the polls, I'm in the minority. That's okay. I usually have been. And according to the new and depraved Department of Homeland Security, I need to be on their watch list of people they are really, really afraid of since I'm one of those scary people who believe in God — I'm pro-life, a gun owner, concealed carry permit holder, a person who believes that the Second Amendment is as important as the first and that without one, we probably won't have the other very long.

But know that I don't want to change America with bullets, but I sure hope to with ballots — lots of them.

That's my view, I would love to hear yours. E-mail your comments to: huckmail@foxnews.com

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The Tolbert Report has a story about my favorite web team LCM Strategies. Partners Chris Maiorana and Linus Catignani do a terrific job handling many political web sites. Of course, since I work for Chris and Linus, I may be a little prejudiced, but I think they are the best bosses in the world. Lots of patience with me, a novice to all this stuff, and a lot of humor. They make the work all worthwhile and fun for me to do. Read the complete Tolbert Report article here . Check out LCM Strategies here.

Sunday's Coming

Monday, April 13, 2009
By Mike Huckabee

This is Easter weekend and around the world Christians will remember the death and resurrection of Christ in worship services.

While Christmas is significant in that it represents the impact of Christ coming to the world, it is Easter Sunday that represents the very foundation of the Christian faith: That Christ didn't merely come or even die a martyr's death. He overcame death in the resurrection.

On this rests the very veracity of Christianity. If this is true, there is reason for celebration and joy. If this event didn't happen, then the Christian faith is a dead and deadly delusion and its followers are to be pitied for giving such energy and devotion to a broken promise and an empty religious ritual.

All that Easter is can be summed up in the simple message I heard years ago from an elderly minister who delivered a sermon called "It's Friday, but don't worry, because Sunday's coming."

The various pains and heartaches faced by people in their human existence are just the "Fridays of our life — days we are laid low by a diagnosis of disease, by the loss of a job, by the death of a friend, by the pain of rejection. It's Friday, but don't worry, because Sunday is coming… and when Sunday comes, even death will die — the darkest of our Fridays will become a Sunday of new life."

This Easter, many Americans have lost jobs; there is fear about the future. Will I be able to make my rent payments, put food on the table, overcome the disease that I just learned about?

Be careful not to get too wrapped up in the doom and gloom of those who will tell you how bad your Fridays are — because Sunday is coming! Yes, there are wars, our government seems to have abandoned the basic premises of individual liberty and none of us can be assured that all our treasures won't vanish in an instant — whether by theft, by tax or by the foolishness of those we trusted to care for them.

It may be Friday, but don't worry because Sunday's coming.

If you are a person of authentic faith, don't give in to the prophets of pessimism. The worst thing that can happen to you is to die. That's Friday, but Sunday's coming.
That's Easter. It's why I refuse to dig a hole to hide in; I'll look for a mountain for climb and wait until Sunday.

That's my view, I would love to hear yours. E-mail your comments to: huckmail@foxnews.com

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