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Huckabee Supporters Pray for Victory
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ABC News' Jake Tapper and Kevin Chupka report: If former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee doesn't do as well as he'd like in tonight's Iowa caucuses, it won't be because of lack of praying.
A spontaneous prayer circle broke out in the ballroom at the Des Moines Embassy Suites, where Huckabee supporters are congregating to watch the returns come in.
Rebekah Swicegood, a 22-year-old music teacher from Lowell, Ark., led the circle with seven friends, pontificating for approximately 20 minutes, beseeching the Lord to provide a victory for Huckabee, a Baptist minister before entering elected office.
Swicegood said, "We pray that you will lift Mike Huckabee up, Lord," as part of a plan for the U.S. to "return to the God of our founding fathers."
This would include ending abortion, and ending homosexuality. "When Rome got to the point of accepting sodomy, they fell," Swicegood said.
Weeping at one point, Swicegood also prayed "that we no longer say, in the name of tolerance, that we accept every wrong religion."
After her prayer was finished, the group broke out into a chorus of "God Bless America."
Swicegood said she was home schooled, which is a constituency Huckabee has courted assiduously.
"Mike Huckabee is a picture of God's last chance for America, because we have rejected him," she said. "Mike Huckabee is going to beseech God's mercy on America."
At the time, Huckabee and his wife were making their way back from Waterloo, where they were visiting a caucus.
January 3, 2008 in Giuliani, Rudy, Thompson, Fred | Permalink | User Comments (4)
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Iowa - what a country we live in!!!
COOL - a major horse race for the Dems AND anyone who thinks "change" will happen in Washington before a third party emerges in this country is smokin' the good stuff!!
Huckabuck? Not so much. What this proves, without a doubt, is the "anti-intellectual, anti-science, anti-curiosity Revangelicans" are not playing with the full deck and will support a lying weasel so long as he is white, will get them gays, and "prays to the RIGHT God." Bizarre!!!!
I say "Bring 'im on," AND the (ANY) Yellow Dog will whip him like Janet after rattlesnakes!!
Posted by: Larry | Jan 4, 2008 9:28:13 AM
Whoa,
In the prayer circle some one is praying that America should reject every wrong religion!!!!!!!!! Relgious tolerance is the exact reason this country came to be. As soon as we start to throne any one religion as the right religion for america, we will lose our freedom. I pray to God that He will enlighten the minds of the ill- informed. Religous diveristy is not the enemy, ignorance, bigotry, lies, and fear will truely imprison us.
Posted by: Amy Wudel | Jan 4, 2008 5:21:28 PM
Huckabee is a very charismatic speaker. Reports all over the world are talking about how honest, humble and trustworthy Huckabee is. Regular ordinary American citizens can feel the connection and also feel thrilled about him.
Huckabee is even charming the Rock band "R.E.M.". College studens all over campus are really excited about Huckabee being not only a presidential candidate but also a Rockstar.
Huckabee is jamming on his guitar at college campus in New Hampshire. The college students are really excited. I wouldn't be suprised if Huckabee and Bono recorded a song when he become President.
Huckabee is a down right very cool dude!!!
Posted by: Giant Robot | Jan 7, 2008 5:55:34 AM
Isn't it sad that voting citizens are so ready to believe one journalist's take on what another person has said. Can't we, instead, research EXACT quotations for ourselves, people? Isn't it possible that we, the reading public, are not being tolerant of this music teacher's views simply because we have not heard ALL she has to say? Or maybe she was misunderstood?
what kind of belief would hers be if she did not firmly agree with herself? If you firmly believe something based on your experience and forethought...that blue is better than green, for example-when a friend believes the opposite... how does it help anyone to combine the colors? No one will be satisfied with the outcome! Instead, of morphing personal opinions to fit the social mood, true tolerance would be to remain friends even with differences of opinion. If we don't believe anything as a society, than we won't care. And if we don't care then we won't act (not for charity, or for humanity, or for good). Nothing will ever be resolved on, and we will lethargically dismiss anyone else's views based on our confused, lazy perspective that there is no truth.
Posted by: Jodelle Svenhard | Jan 9, 2008 5:20:49 AM
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