Blacksheep Speaks

OPEN LETTER TO PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE MIKE HUCKABEE

Dear Mr. Huckabee;

I am a resident of the state of Arkansas, and I think you did a fine job as governor here, but before you become president, there are a couple things you should be aware of.

JUST BECAUSE YOU QUIT SMOKING DOES NOT GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO USE THE GOVERNMENT TO FORCE US TO DO THE SAME. You hve pushed laws through in our state that ban tobacco use in many areas. We smokers understand that nonsmokers do not want to be shut up in a room with a lot of smoke. Fine. But outside in the open air? In designated smoking areas? Please. No smoking is fine for indoors, but at at least one Arkansas hospital, smokers are now forced to walk a quarter mile to a GRAVEYARD to smoke. A graveyard where gangs go. In trying to force us to be like you, you have risked our lives. We smoke by choice, a choice guaranteed by the constitution. We don't all want to be forced to be you.

and, secondly,

JUST BECAUSE YOU LOST A HUNDRED POUNDS DOESN'T GIVE YOU THE RIGHT TO FORCE US TO DO THE SAME. Your BMI garbage is for the birds. I have four children in the school system and NOT ONE TIME did they manage to get it right. My underweight daughter, whose doctor wants her to gain, was labled "healthy" and my other daughter who is the perfect weight for her height BY HER DOCTOR'S STANDARDS was labled "in danger of becoming obese". She was DEVASTATED. The other two, they didn't even get their HEIGHT right. We, as parents, are NOT in fact too stupid to know whether or not our kids are fat, and you have NO RIGHT telling us what we can and can not eat.

That said, good luck with your presidential run.