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Capt. Obvious

(9,002 posts)
Mon May 11, 2015, 10:13 AM May 2015

Huckabee: Peddling snake oil proves I'd be a great President.

Republican presidential candidate and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee (R) said on Sunday’s “Face the Nation” that “be a heck of a good President” because of his decision to promote dietary supplements on informercials.

“Well, there’s gonna be a lot of criticism thrown my way,” Huckabee said. “I don’t have to defend everything that I’ve ever done. I’m not doing those infomercials obviously now as a candidate for President. But if that’s the worst thing somebody can say to me, is that I advocated for people who have diabetes to do something to reverse it and stop the incredible pain of that, then I’m gonna be a heck of a good President.

CBS host Bob Schieffer mentioned that he had diabetes and understood the importance of diet and exercise in treating the disease before questioning Huckabee about whether he’d sold pills in his informercials.

“No, no, there was not, that’s a misnomer,” Huckabee said. “One of the elements of the plan was dietary supplements. But it’s not the fundamental thing.”

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Huckabee: Peddling snake oil proves I'd be a great President. (Original Post) Capt. Obvious May 2015 OP
Yea, selling bee urine qualifies the huskster to keep his hand on the nuclear button leftofcool May 2015 #1
replace insurance with snake oil dembotoz May 2015 #2
Selling bullshit on Fox News, selling bullshit to Congress, what's the difference? Initech May 2015 #3
He is as bad as Fred Thompson Terra Alta May 2015 #4
Your title is misleading.... brooklynite May 2015 #5
I also used a blind link Capt. Obvious May 2015 #7
It'll certainly get a specific demographic to vote for you... NuclearDem May 2015 #6

Terra Alta

(5,158 posts)
4. He is as bad as Fred Thompson
Mon May 11, 2015, 11:23 AM
May 2015

Selling reverse mortgages. I wouldn't buy a thing from either of them and wouldn't trust either of them to run the country.

brooklynite

(94,508 posts)
5. Your title is misleading....
Mon May 11, 2015, 11:26 AM
May 2015

He didn't say he'd be a good President BECAUSE of his homeopathic sales, he said he'd be a good President because that was the worst thing people could say about him.

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