Huckabee Calls for National Smoking Ban in Public Places

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Of all the presidential candidates, I would probably most like to hang out with Mike Huckabee. He's smart, funny, a musician, former Baptist minister, former governor, and has personally lost more than 100 pounds. I'm confident he would be the most entertaining dinner guest of the lot, as well as a guy I would trust as a co-worker, friend or babysitter.

But I don't want to elect a babysitter as President of the United States of America.

I think smoking is unhealthy and dumb. As is eating crappy food, drinking too much, staying up too late, texting while driving and not flossing regularly. But it is not the role of the federal government to force good decisions on me.

We are free to make our own choices in this nation. If someone wants to enjoy a cigar on a bar patio while another chooses a smoke-free establishment, good for both of them. If one guy wolfs down bag of donuts for breakfast while another nibbles a rice cake, whatever. Each of us are entitled to our individual "pursuit of happiness." Even if they define it differently than Mr. Huckabee.

Update: Thanks for the link, Mr. Reynolds! Guess I better pick up the place...