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Domenico Montanaro, NBC News Political Reporter



The Huckaburger

Posted: Monday, January 07, 2008 1:42 PM by Domenico Montanaro

From NBC’s Kelly O’Donnell
CONCORD, N.H. -- At "The Barley House" here, crowds spilled out the door and Huckabee worked through the crush of supporters, the curious and the media. Huckabee, well known for his dramatic 110-pound weight loss, is the first candidate with a burger bearing his name here.

The chef says the "Huckaburger" is made with lean bison, baby spinach, and sprouts, tomato on a whole-wheat bun topped with a fried pickle. The chef wasn't sure the price but said probably $7.95.

The street outside was swarmed with traffic and crowds who could not get in to see Mike and Janet Huckabee. A boisterous contingent of Ron Paul supporters is here too. McCain is expected nearby, so the crowds are shifting across the street.

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More nonsense reporting.......... Our election process is more street fair than serious business.  MAybe the burgers should be handed out for free, in exchange for votes.... it can be a throwdown, like they do on the food network. We can have RAchael RAy moderate the next debate from the iron Chef kitchen and which ever candidate can whip up the meaneast chili wins. Hillary can make cookies and therefore garner the housewife vote. All the candidates can then take their musical instruments over to American Idol and see what Simon and PAula have to say....  Its rubbish~
More nonsense reporting.......... Our election process is more street fair than serious business.  MAybe the burgers should be handed out for free, in exchange for votes.... it can be a throwdown, like they do on the food network. We can have RAchael RAy moderate the next debate from the iron Chef kitchen and which ever candidate can whip up the meaneast chili wins. Hillary can make cookies and therefore garner the housewife vote. All the candidates can then take their musical instruments over to American Idol and see what Simon and PAula have to say....  Its rubbish~
Republicans against Mitt Romney, when we have a flip flopper in the party we need him out please check out our site and see why many Republican voters do not trust Mitt.

http://republicansagainstromney.blogspot.com
Lynette will you marry me, you sound like a hell of a cook.
YOU HAVE TO LOVE THE HUCK, HE DIDNT LET BIG LOVE MITT PUSH HIM AROUND.  MITT THINKS HUCK IS AT A DISADVANTAGE, CAUSE HE ONLY HAS ONE WIFE.  MITT I HEARD IS GOING TO BE A SPECIAL GUEST ON BIG LOVE(hbo) lmao  jk  wish i had 12 wives like brigham young.
ONLY ONE PROBLEM LYNETTE, IF BILL WASNT LYING TO JENNIFER FLOWERS ABOUT HILLARY SLEEPING WITH MORE WOMEN THAN HIM.  MOST LESBIANS DONT COOK
.. it can be a throwdown, like they do on the food network.

I can just see that....

Hillary will have to join forces with some dessert queen to make cookies......
If it's a burger, it has to be flipped...
It is pretty much a two man race now, as republicans we need to choose from John McCain or Mike Huckabee for president. Please we need o get the party ogether and pick one of these two men.
My point is who cares about who can make cookies or chili or what burger is named after who.
These people are running for president of the Unites States of America. Issues are not at the forefront when all we have to read is who's wife is calling who during a campaign stop, what people eat for breakfast or lunch and who had a burger named after him. Its a circus.
I really do wish there was a substancial story about Huckabee right now. I know he is not projected to take NH, but come on people - he is still working hard and still connecting with MANY people. I want to know more about what he is doing and how people are reacting to him. Please don't trivialize his campaign - there are many of us out there who like what he is working towards and want the real substance...not this silly stuff!
Watch this video this is great on Mitt Romney Flip and a Flopping!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7y1HMZNJy0&NR=1
Fry Huckabee, Thompson!
It is pretty much a two man race now, as republicans we need to choose from John McCain or Mike Huckabee for president. Please we need o get the party ogether and pick one of these two men.

Gerry K. New Hampshire (Sent Monday, January 07, 2008 2:18 PM)

LOL...
I think it is more McCain and Romney then Huckabee....

You heard it here first....
I'll vote for Obama before I vote for Huckabee.....
BUT LYNETTE I ASK AGAIN WILL YOU MARRY ME
Kelly O'Donnell, how much do you still owe in student loans that writing that story made you think it would be worth even a tiny sliver of your reputation?

P.S. You've just wasted 3 minutes of my life that I will never get back.
I'd like a Ron Paul burger - raw on top, burnt on the bottom. Never EVER flipped.
How's this for a substantial story on Huckabee?

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig/keller21.html
CHOOSE THE HUCK!  He is TRUE!  and John McCain just seems to want to be the President just a LITTLE TOO MUCH!  i mean honestly you have tried 8 times now, and failed 8 times.. give it up!  there is something scarey about a man that wants to be the president THAT BAD!  can you say ANTI-CHRIST?!?
Gerry K in NH:

Voting for "the winner" makes you a loser.

Read more at http://cuthbert1776.blogspot.com/2008/01/why-i-support-ron-paul-i-am-rarely-more.html
Jerry, will you quit obsessing over Hillary already? We all know your candidates all suck but why the woody over hillary?
DEAR FRIENDS:

WELL HOT DOG!!! HUCK HAS A BURGER WET GOING DOWN TO THE MISSISSIPPI EVER BEEN THERE I DOUGHT IT.  WET A BURGER OR A HOT DOG IS LOUSY ON  A BUN.  HONEY HUCKLEBERRY FIN CROSSED HIS LEGS NO AND THE WOMEN KNEW IT.    GET A NEW LINE!!!!
LADIES HILARY CLINTON A WOMAN OF THE YEAR AND FASHION STATEMENT RED WHITE AND BLUE.  GRACE, CLASS AND A YOUTHFUL TOE, SHE CAN DANCE.  
HILARY LIKE SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN HAS SEEN THE ATTACKS OF THIS NATION FROM EACH SHORE.  REMEMBER THE USS ARIZONA.  SENATOR MCCAIN HAS WALKED IN THE SHOES OF THE MILITARY AND MEN AND WOMEN HE KNOWS WHAT IT IS LIKE TO FACE THE ENEMY AND FIGHT FOR THIS NATION, FOR OUR BORDERS AND FOR THE PROTECTION OF HE ENEMY AS OUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS HAVE, ARE AND WILL BE.
THEY KNOW AIR FORCE ONE PROTOCOL. THEY KNOW THE LABOR OF A WOMAN GIVING BIRTH, DAUGHTER, WOMAN, SON THEY KNOW EVEN FOR THE MILITARY WOMAN. RESPECTIVELY AND THOSE OF THE MILITARY SPOUSES AS MY GRANDSON WAS BORN TO AN ACTIVE MARINE AND AN ACTIVE NAVAL PERSONEL.  RESPECT  THEY KNOW THESE AND THEY BOTH KNOW THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS RESPONSIBILITY AND THE WEIGHT OF IT UPON THIS NATION.  THEY BOTH KNOW THE RESPECT AND RESPONSIBILITIES OF UNIONS AND THEIR MEMBERS FROM THE AIR TRAFFIC CONTROLLERS TO THE NURSES, TRUCK DRIVERS, AMALGAMTED MEAT CUTTERS UNION, CARPENTERS, TEACHERS, MANUFACTURERS AND ALL UNION MEMBERS. LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OBAMA USED THE WORDS OVER AND OVER AND OVER AS REPETITIVNESS IS NOT A USEFUL AND OR GOOD WORD. SOME THINGS MAY SEEM THAT WAY AS IN MANUFACTURING AS IN OTHER HOTEL WORK OR DESK WORK.  YOUNG LADIES AND GENTLEMEN OBAMA INSULTED THE ENTIRE LEARNING PROCESS AND JOB MARKET AS HE DID THE WHITE COLLAR AND BLUE COLLAR WORKER WITH THESE LINES.  ATTACK ON THE WHITE CANDIDATES AND VOTERS AND BLUE AND WHITE COLLAR WORKERS OF AMERICA.  A CHEAP SHOT!!!!  
OBAMA HAS NOT EXPERIENCED AN EARTH QUAKE, HE HAS NOT EXPERIENCED A HURRICANE THE MAGNITUDE OF KATRINA OR THE ONE THAT WENT THROUGH HOUSTON WITH THIRTEEN TORNADOES, HE HAS NOT LOST HIS HOME OR BEEN PUT OUT OF SCHOOL AS A RESULT OF WEATHER OR NOT BEING ABLE TO AFORD IT,  HE HAS NOT EXPERIENCED THE SANDY SHORES OF OUR NATION BEING WASHED OUT AS OCCURRED IN THE 1990'S ON THE WEST COAST,  HE HAS NOT BEEN A SURFER OF THE PACIFIC YET HE TRIES TO USE LANGUAGE TO MAKE IT APPEAR AS THOUGH HE HAS,  HE BORROWERS SPEECHES OF HONORABLE MEN THAT ARE NOT HIS, PLAGERISM, HE IS NOT EXPERIENCED THE GROUND SHAKE UNDER HIM AS THE EDUCATORS AND STUDENTS OF STANFORD OR THE THREAT OF CANCER RAIN  NOR THE WISDOM OF BERKELEY TO SPEAK OUT EVEN WHEN IT MEAN ALONE,  HE HAS NOT EXPERIENCED THE MILITARY ACADEMY NOR THE TRAINING THERE OF TO KNOW THE DEPTH OF THEIR SELF AND WORTH,  HE HAS NOT BEEN A WOMAN AS SENATOR HILARY CLINTON HAS AND HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO SEE THIS NATION GROW AND CHANGE AND AS SHE AND SENATOR JOHN MCCAIN AND SENATOR EDWARDS HAS OF THE VAST AGRICULTURAL CHANGES AS A RESULT OF TRADE CHANGES AND BIOCHEMICAL CHANGES AND CHALLENGES, HE KNOWS NOTHING OF A SAND STORM THAT TAKES THE SKIN AND OR PAINT OFF YOUR CAR OR SELF,  HE KNOWS NOTHING OF THE CHANGE OF LIFE AND DEMOGRAPHIC CHALLENGES AS THESE THREE SENATORS HAVE.  HIS LANGUAGE CHANGES AS THOUGH HE IS ON A SOAP OPERA SHOW FOR THE TWO MINUTE FIX, SLAM BAM BOOM.  
OBAMA HAS NOT EXPERIENCED THE TRAINING FOR THE JOB OF CHIEF OF STAFF AND PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.  HE ALSO STAYS HOME FOR VOTES AS IMPORTANT AS THAT OF THE UNBORN CHILD.  WHAT ELSE DID HE STAY HOME FOR?  I WOULD KNOW WHERE MY VOTE WOULD BE AND SO WOULD THOSE THAT VOTED FOR ME IF I WERE A SENATOR. HE DOES NOT,  THIS IS NOT SHOW TIME.  YOU DID NOT VOTE, COWARD.  WHERE WOULD HE BE IF OUR SHORES ARE ATTACKED MORE THAN THEY HAVE BY THE OSAMA BIN LADEN, HIS FOLLOWERS AND OR HIS CRIMINALS?   IN CASE YOU DID NOT KNOW THEY ARE GOING TO BE TEXT MAILING AND E MAILING AS THOUGH THEY WERE A CORPORATION.  THIS IS GOING OUT TO NOT ONLY THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA CITIZENS BUT TO CITIZENS OF ALL NATIONS THAT ARE HERE IN THE USA AND TO  AND FROM EVERY OTHER NATIONS AND YOUR CHILDREN. THIS IS AGAINST TELMARKETING LAWS, COMMUNICATION PROTECTION LAWS,  IT IS AN INVASION, A NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL THREAT, AN UNLAWFUL USE OF OUR PERSONAL PROPERTY,  OUR SPACIAL LAND RIGHTS AND FREEDOM AND IT IS A ATTACK OF WAR NOT ONLY FROM THESE TERRORISTS AND FROM OSAMA BIN LADEN BUT FROM THE NATION HE IS IN.  OUR PRESIDENT TOOK COMMAND AND ISSUED A COMMAND THAT TOOK OUT A CRIMINAL NAMED HUSSEIN AND ISSSUED A COMMAND AGAINST OSAMA BIN LADEN. IN OTHER WORDS HE HAD COURAGE, FORTITUDE AND THE COMMAND AND DUTY OF HIS OATH TO WE THE PEOPLE OF THE USA, OUR PROPRIETERIES AND ENTITITIES.
WE HAVE BEEN THREATENED AND INVADED AND ATTACKED AGAIN AND IT I JUST THE BEGINNING.  OF THE ILLEGAL IMMAGRANTS IN THIS NATION MANY ARE CITIZENS OF OUR ALLIES AND OR OTHER NATIONS,  WHAT WILL THEIR POSITION TO BE WHEN THE PHYSICAL FRONT LINE COMES AND OR RISES AGAIN ON THIS NATION?
THIS IS NOT A SOAP OPERA OR A LITTLE SESSION ON AN ISLAND NOR IS IT THE TYPE OF THING ONE WOULD WANT A PRESIDENT ELECTED TO BE AT HOME OR SITTING THERE PRESENT AND NOT PERFORMING THE DUTY AS SENATOR OBAMA HAS.  NOR IN THE FACE OF THIS TIME WOULD I WANT A PRESIDENT ELECTED THAT WOULD NOT UNDERSTAND THAT ACTIVE MILITARY MAY BE WITHHELD FROM PREGNANT WOMAN EVEN IN THE MILITARY FOR THE PROTECTION OF THE UNBORN OR BORN CHILD.   THIS IS BASED ON THE ARROGANT VIDEO OF OSAMA BIN LADEN AND HIS MOST RECENT STATEMENT.  PAKISTAN AND THE CITIZENS THERE OF AND ANY OTHER NATION WHICH HAS TERRORISTS FROM HE IS A CITIZENS AND THEY OF YOUR NATION.  AS A RESULT HIS ACTIONS AS MINE CAN BRING ABOUT WAR FOR INNOCENT PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.
HE IS AND WILL ADVANCE INTO THE LIKES OF ALL AS HITLER WOULD HAVE IF HE WERE NOT KILLED.

ALL OVER THE WORLD YOUR CHILDREN ARE YOUR GREATEST ASSET AND WE AMERICANS KNOW THIS.  THEY ARE WHY IT IS SO IMPORTANT OF WHO WE PUT INTO OUR LEADERS AND PRESIDENTS AND WHO WE ELECT.  

MY PRAYERS TO GOD ARE THAT EVERY ABLE BODIES CITIZEN THAT IS ABLE TO VOTE IN THIS NATION OF THE USA AND OR ANY OTHER, NO MATTER WHAT YOUR FAITH, RACE, AGE, GENDER, SEXUAL PREFERANCE, PHYSICAL ABILITY OR THOSE WHO ARE WITH WHAT LANGUAGE IDENTIFIES OR DESCRIBES AS HANDICAPPED ( OF WHICH I CALL CHALLENGES AND COURAGE AND SOMETIMES MORE THAN ME ), VOTE, REGISTER AND VOTE BE COUNTED.     WE DO NOT WANT COWARDS IN COMMAND.
GOD PROTECT US IN THIS WORLD OUR ENEMY IS AT OUR FEET. AMEN.
and where is the Beeitch with her blather about hillary?
Pretty much a 2-man race now... Romney and Guiliani.

Angry old McCain and his Huckaburger Clown running mate are flash in the pans.

Why is it that ultra-conservatist Rush Limbaugh is pounding both McCain and Huckabee?

(Could it be that he is RIGHT?  that you McHuck supporters are being "run" by your pastors and NOT thinking for youselves??? Heaven forbid!)
Believe me "Kathryn in Bham" - the only thing a "substantial" story about Huckabee would do is make it even MORE clear what a dim-witted fool he is...

While he's out lying about his "theology" degrees, we're still PAYING for his $500-million dollar tax increases.
TRUE National Conservative talk show hosts (including Rush) are POUNDING McCain and Huckabee!

Are they wrong, or you?
KATHRYN    HUKABEE HAS TURN AWAY CROWDS EVERY WHERE  BUT NEW HAMPSHIRE IS A LOT OF ANTI CHRIST   HE WII WIN S CAROLINA GOING AWAY, FLORIDA, ALL OF THE SOUTH, OHIO AND GOOD IN PA.  HE WILL GET LOTS OF VOTES IN CALIFORNIA
Gerry K, If Huckabee and "Old Man" McCain are the only 2 men on the Republican side left to consider, you may as well start calling Obama or Clinton by another name, "President". Neither of these two can debate or present themselves like Mitt Romney can. McCain is too darned old (remember another old man Bob Dole?) and Huckabee has a lousy record of raising taxes and accepting improper gifts he cannot run from.
IM LMAO AT THE DEMS, THEY FINALLY FIGURED CLINTON COULDNT WIN, A LES, A THIEF,A DECIEVER, A LIAR.  NOW THEY GOT THE MUSLIM OREO.  DO THEY KNOW HIS PRIEST IS A RADICAL MUSLIM, NO CAUSE THEY CANT READ, THEY THINK THIS BLACK BOY WILL GIVE THEM MORE FOODSTAMPS TO TRADE FOR DRUGS, AND KEEP THEIR COWARDLY ASS ES OUT OF THE MILITARY  WHY ARE WE EVEN HAVING THIS RACE
Rick-
First of all, just want to let you know that Huckabee is very well educated. I study under a former mentor/professor of Mike Huckabee who is one of the most well-respected, well-educated men I know. What is it about him that makes you feel he is so unintelligent? Also, his proposal for a national fair tax, which I have researched and supported for several years now, would be a benefit to us all. Yes, like the other major overhaul projects the candidates are proposing (health care, Social Security, etc...), there are details to be ironed out, but the flat tax supported by Mike Huckabee would mean that we get to take home all of our hard-earned paychecks. It also would create a system where EVERYONE, the rich, those visiting our country from abroaad, etc... all pay for the goods and services we use. This system would lend itself to MUCH needed domestic reform. What is it about this system that you think is threatening to take more of the tax payers' money?
IM SURE ALL THESE ABORTION DRUG DEMS WHITE WOMEN THAT BUY BLACK TOYS, ARE REAL EXCITED WITH THIS OREO MUSLIM  WHOSE PREACHER IS A RADICAL MUSLIM   GO HILL
Romey is retarted. He thinks he can buy his way to the white house. He just so happened to change his views on abortion and gay marriage within the last 2 years. He is classic too conservative republican from the old days that everybody else hates because he wants to make himself and the rest of the rich richer. He is slime, a flip flopper, corrupt man and doesnt deserve to be in the same room as McCain and Huckabee. He doesnt want to change anything or do anything for that matter, he just wants to be president. And for the record, he raised taxes in his state too, he just called them fees instead of taxes. And the only reason Huckabee raised taxes was because the people of his state voted to so that they could improve the quality of their roads and education. Romney also has as much foreign policy experience as i do, and im 18. He stands strong NOWHERE on ANY issues, instead he tries to be president by pissing away millions of dollars of his own money (and hes so rich he doesnt even miss it) and attacking honest men like Huckabee and McCain, God help us if that man becomes president.
Conservatives need to realize one thing, social conservatism should never change because ethics, good/bad, right/wrong, never change. However, as our country changes, so should the economy. Economic conservatives should be more open to change like Huckabee and McCain. Rush may compliment someone like Thompson on his conservative record, but this kind of conservatism has nothing new to offer the American people. His economic views are out of date. What we need is someone who will be tough on crime and national security and uphold morality of social issues, but should also be open to new kinds of energy, protecting the environment, and changing the economy.
Please turn the CAPS LOCK off, people!
This is another waste of words and space.
I have had enough, I will botcott this site now because you have become infotainment.
See you in the funny papers boys you are silly and uninteresting!
Too bad they don't tell you the secret ingredient of the "Huckaburgers" is B.S.! People are so use to eating the Politician's crap that they're putting in into our food now. I'm sick of Picking my candidates by using my eyes, today I choose to use my brain and change myself. And Ron Paul's the man that will give me my rights back to do it. He may not be pretty, but he cured my voter apathy(check the dictionary).
Way too much YELLING going on in here. Ya mind to turn the volume down? Maybe learn to spell, and some grammer?

Too bad the media continually tries to make Huckabee some kind of clown. If some place named a RomneyBurger the media would be there to slap a crown on it. Money does talk.


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