Posted on 02/21/2008 9:54:36 AM PST by SmithL
What happens in Vegas doesn't always stay in Vegas - especially if you're the wife of a presidential candidate. Just ask Janet Huckabee, who attended a middleweight prize fight this past weekend in Las Vegas - where she stayed at the Hooters Casino Hotel.
That eye-opening combination - a title bout in Sin City, which celebrates gambling, drinking and all things wild, along with a hospitality chain favoring buxom waitresses in low-cut garb - could potentially shock the armies of evangelical conservative Christians who have made her husband, the former governor of Arkansas, the only remaining GOP opponent to party front-runner John McCain.
But Janet Huckabee, whose husband is also a former Baptist minister, said in a telephone interview Wednesday that her recent brief excursion to root for boxer Jermain Taylor, a longtime friend and fellow Arkansan - and her stay at a hotel that she said wasn't exactly her first choice - was supposed to be a rare respite from the often-brutal presidential campaign trail.
"It's a grueling schedule. ... I had been in Wisconsin and flew to Michigan, and Friday and Saturday I spoke 14 times before the fight," said Janet Huckabee, who called a Chronicle reporter while traveling with her husband in Dallas in response to questions about the trip. "There's little time for anything other than campaigning."
She has made no secret of the family's support for Taylor, the middleweight boxing champ known as the "pride of Arkansas," who had a title bout against Kelly Pavlik in Vegas over the weekend.
But she said she never planned on staying at Hooters for the hot-ticket fight, which also drew such celebrities as Jack Nicholson, Michael Jordan, Eddie Murphy and Sylvester Stallone.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
[chuckle] I know, I know. It was the first place I thought of. Forgot about Excalibur...
Thank you. That interests me too. The "Hooters" angle does not.
I'm just being silly, mate. Besides, I like Vegas, although Reno's my preference.
OK. I always thought you were O.K., if you catch my drift.
Last few times I was there, the waitresses could hardly be described as buxom.
Not anymore. Even they’ve given up the facade.
Aaaah! Nooo! Not THAT Reno!
Good! You had me worried, there.
; )
I don't care what she does. It's not going to bother me one way or the other, because I am secure in the Lord, but just being there has caused a controversy. THAT is why she should have stayed somewhere else........
Attending an event there is one thing, but staying at Hooters was, an unwise decision. Secular people will see this as their chance to call Christians "hypocrites" just like the SF Fag Rag has done. ;o)
1Th 5:22 Abstain from all appearance of evil. KJV
Good point, and one that I thought of as well. I think the verse you are referring to says: “Repay no one evil for evil, but be careful to do what is right in the eyes of everybody.” But the reality is that many people do think that eating a hamburger is wrong, because they are Vegans or whatever. We, as Christians, don’t have to stop eating meat because some people think we should.
The reaction here has basically been “so what” regarding Mrs. Huckabees trip. I think that will be the standard reaction among most everyone except for those who are actively anti-christian, and I think we can safely ignore those folks. If we conformed to their image of what we should do we would be conforming to their view of a narrow, meanspirited, and joyless Christianity. They’d have us live in that way — and then declare us wrong for doing it!
P.S. I don’t speak Greek but regarding 1 Thess. 5:22, the New King James, the NIV, the ESV and all the modern translations I looked at basically say “Abstain from every form of evil.” The meaning of the term appearance has changed I think in the language.
Actually I would like a down-to-earth real person for First Lady...
Compiled by the U.S.News & World Report library staff
1. Janet McCain was born on July 16, 1955, in Lake Charles, La., the fourth of five siblings. The family moved to Hope, Ark., when she was just an infant. There, she was a star basketball player at Hope High School.
2. Janet had her first date with Mike Huckabee on Jan. 29, 1973. After one of her basketball games, the two went to a truck stop for cheeseburgers. They married on May 25, 1974.
3. A year or so later, Janet was diagnosed with spinal cancer and had to undergo surgery and radiation therapy. Despite initial predictions from doctors, she went on to a full recovery, walking again and later having children.
4. Janet attended college at Ouachita Baptist University. Later in life, she would finish her degree at John Brown University, graduating with honors in organizational management.
5. In 2002, Mike ran for re-election as Arkansas’s governor. Janet also ran for a statewide office: secretary of state. In response to her detractors during the campaign (critical of her use of state resources for campaigning, among other things), she told the New York Times, “If it wasn’t for the grace of God, I’d have shot a few people already.” While Mike won his election, Janet lost hers.
6. Some of Janet’s favorite pastimes include skiing, jet skiing, swimming, basketball, and piloting an airplane. She has also gone bungee jumping and parachuted out of an airplane.
7. She likes to hunt and once shot a grenade launcher at a National Guard training camp in Arkansas (”hitting the target two out of three times”).
8. During her husband’s time as governor of Arkansas, Janet was nicknamed the “first tomboy.”
9. Janet has completed two marathons.
10. Janet and Mike Hucakbee have three children: John Mark, David, and Sarah. The family also includes three dogs: Jet, Sonic, and Toby.
Here is an excerpt from an explanation of 1 Thessalonians 5:22 in the KJV from one source:
“God chose to employ human language—words—to communicate His will to people. Even though this medium of conveyance is quite adequate to achieve such an objective, misunderstanding sometimes can occur. One example of confusion in seen in Paul’s admonition to the Thessalonian Christians: “Abstain from all appearance of evil” (1 Thessalonians 5:22). This verse frequently is used to assert that Christians should avoid engaging in actions that appear to be improper or sinful—even though those actions may not actually be sinful. However, the 1611 translators of the King James Version were attempting to convey the idea that one should abstain from evil in whatever form it may appear. Newer translations help to clarify the underlying Greek text by translating the verse, “Abstain from every form of evil” (NKJV). The verse is banning the practice of sin/evil in whatever form it occurs—whether lying, stealing, murdering, etc.
http://www.apologeticspress.org/articles/1797
I'm sure that's correct, and for any ordinary person, that would be fine. But she's not an ordinary person. She's the wife of a presidential candidate who's campaigning on morality and values.
Simply going to the cheapest place, without regard to how seedy it is, when your in that knid of position, isn't very intelligent. She and her husband should have more sense than that.
To me, this incident reveals more about the lack of competence of the Huckabee campaign staff than anything else. Someone on that staff should have adivsed her to stay at a different hotel. The fact that no one did tells me that the Huckster isn't ready for prime time.
I doubt there is any true hypocrisy, just the appearance of hypocrisy. The Huckabee campaign should have figured it out. The fact that they didn't tells me that the Huckster and his staff are nothing but a bunch of hacks not ready for prime time.
Your wife has got it backwards. I'd be pi**ed if my husband went to a strip club and stuck dollar bills in another womans g-string. After all, that's $20 bucks that could have gone to me.
Now, seriously. What's her logic behind that one?
Hooters, Vegas and a fight wouldn't be my choice of the way to unwind, but to each her own.
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