Presidential candidate Mike Huckabee holds forth on energy consumption :
Mike Huckabee is a potential Republican nominee for the US presidential elections next November. "Who's your favorite author?" asked 7-year old Aleya Deatsch. Huckabee said it was Dr Seuss. That surprised her because she thought that someone grownup should be reading at a higher level. Her favorite author she admitted was C. S. Lewis.Huckabee is not the sharpest knife in the drawer, evidently. Here's what
he said on record: Here's what he said on record: "I think we ought to be out there talking about ways to reduce energy consumption and waste. And we ought to declare that we will be free of energy consumption in this country within a decade, bold as that is." [Via Cosmic Variance.] [Link]
Candidate Huckabee on evolution :
File under "Boneheaded Stupidity"."If you want to believe that you and your family came from apes, that's fine. I'll accept that," he said Friday. "I just don't happen to think that I did."
As for what should be taught in public schools, Huckabee said he wants "schools to acknowledge that there are views that are different than evolution."
Huckabee downplayed the role evolution should have in the election. "Is a President going to sit in the Oval Office and really make a decision on what's being taught in a third-grade class in Dubuque, Iowa, on creation or evolution?" he said. "The answer is no." [Link]
