Forget the Farm Workers Endorsement: you want J-dog on your sideIn describing her stance on immigration policy during Thursday's Democratic presidential debate, Senator Hillary Clinton dropped a subtly sly Jesus-bomb. Was the namedrop heartfelt and coincidental, or was it simply good planning? Half of those surveyed in a recent poll commissioned by the American Bible Society said they wouldn't vote for a candidate who doesn't believe in God, and a whopping 78% percent of those questioned said they like their candidates citing Scripture. So, you tell me: Is Clinton spouting words or turds?

When the House of Representatives passed the most mean-spirited provision that said, if you were to give any help whatsoever to someone here illegally, you would commit a crime, I stood up and said that would have criminalized the Good Samaritan and Jesus Christ himself.

I have been on record on this against this kind of demagoguery, this mean-spiritedness.

And, you know, it is something that I take very personally, because I have not only worked on behalf of immigrants; I have been working to make conditions better for many years.

Previously: Mike Huckabee on Gay Marriage, Fried Squirrels 

Constitution: Not written in invisible ink This week we salute Cavanaugh, who responded to Helen Jupiter’s Words or Turds post about how weird and scary Mike Huckabee can be. In regards to abortion and gay marriage, Huckabee said:

"I believe it's a lot easier to change the Constitution than it would be to change the word of the living God. And that's what we need to do, is to amend the Constitution so it's in God's standards, rather than try to change God's standards."

Here's Cavanaugh's take:

Mike Huckabee has already changed the words of the Living G-d for political advancement—although he's certainly not the first to have done so—but he has not yet changed the Constitution—and not for want of desire to. So changing the words of the Living G-d must be easier than changing the Constitution. For the first, you just sit around and listen to your own arrogance and hatred drown out the voice of G-d; for the second, you've got to convince an awful lot of people to buy the same delusional bullshit your arrogance and hatred has dreamed up.

Sad but true. It’s definitely a credit to the Constitution that one person’s arrogance and hatred can’t make much impact on it. On the other hand, see current President…