Pic Of The Moment: "Diabetes Solution Kit" Pitchman Mike Huckabee Announces Run For President

[EarlG]

Former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee announces White House bid

Mike Huckabee Cures Diabetes!!! (With Snake Oil)

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[d_legendary1]

1. You had me at penis pills

[BlancheSplanchnik]

5. he's a dick.....

Oh, wait....I see that's already been addressed.

[PNW_Dem]

8. Mike Huckabee’s Website is Awesome

huckabeefoundation.com

[erronis]

9. Must be a close relative of the tubby from NJ

They're going to have to build an extra wide stage for all the clowns to stand side-by-side.

Barnum and Bailey with all the misfits, elephants, and tired old ex-cheerleaders.

[progressoid]

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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/03/14/mick-huckabee-cures-diabetes-with-snake-oil.html

[wordpix]

3. Huckster's gained back nearly everything he lost so who's listening?

http://www.refusetoregain.com/2011/07/huckabee-eating-his-words-unfortunately-pancakes-too.html%20

snip:
Karen Tumulty, who interviewed the former governor in February for the Washington Post observed this scene:

Huckabee was tucking into a breakfast of eggs and butter-slathered pancakes at a trendy New York hotel overlooking Times Square. His much-discussed diet - he famously lost more than 100 pounds after a diabetes diagnosis in 2003 and wrote a book about eating right - is apparently on hiatus.

What are we to make of a man who has been told he has a possible death sentence if he's over-fat,who writes books about the importance of avoiding obesity, who stakes a political career on advocacy for better habits and then goes ahead and chows down in front of a reporter for a major newspaper? Unlike Huckabee, I wouldn't call him irresponsible or weak. I'd say he's acting like someone with an addiction. An addiction that has re-established itself. snip

I agree with the part that you have to eat right and exercise. I believe in food-as-medicine, but for those who need immediate help with diabetes, prescribed meds are necessary at least until the weight loss/exercise program occurs.

Personally, I have taken prescribed meds (chemo) for my own condition (cancer), while improving my diet and exercise and doing what I can on my own. So far, my cancer has not recurred. And I will never go back to some of the things I used to eat like lots of dairy and non-organic foods.

[AlbertCat]

11. non-organic foods.

All food is organic.... unless you are eating something made of rocks.

But I guess they mean food that supposedly didn't use insecticides or herbicides.

[underpants]

4. eat mor chikin

[tclambert]

6. Here's your headline: Huckabee No Longer A Huckster

Well, maybe he just changed markets. He still hucksters questionable products, like trickle-down economics and deregulation.

[SoapBox]

7. Ugh...he makes me sick.

There was a story someplace yesterday on the net, saying that with his announcement, that he was already bringing up disproven stories.

How Holy and Christian of him to just keep spreading lies...explain it Huckster.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. You didn't know cinamon rolls were a cure for diabetes did you?

Huck's got more quack cures than Dr. Oz.

[AlbertCat]

12. Ancient Chinese secret!

.... but not Communist Chinese!

[yuiyoshida]

15. He's been watching too much "Big Trouble in Little China"

[IronLionZion]

13. They should all run!

Let's get Sarah Palin to run, and Rick Santorum, and Alan West, and Cliven Bundy, and see how many clowns can fit in their car. I'm hoping for a very expensive and brutal Republican primary.

[DallasNE]

14. Huckabee Is Simply Wrong To Claim He Is A "Former Diabetic"

Here is what the experts say: "Even though there's no diabetes cure, diabetes can be treated and controlled, and some people may go into remission.".

To me "former" implies cured and looking at his fat frame even makes remission a long shot. Surely his health will come up as a campaign issue down the road.

[TexasBushwhacker]

16. Sometimes gastric bypass surgery reverses diabetes

Even if the person doesn't get down to a "healthy" weight. I don't believe he has admitted to any kind of weight loss surgery though.

[DallasNE]

19. Both Huckabee and Christie Have Had Surgery

I believe Huckabee had his stomach stapled. Don't recall if it was before or after his 2008 race. Not sure of the procedure Christie had performed.

[TexasBushwhacker]

20. Lap band n/t

[eridani]

21. Nothing reverses diagetes--it's a genetic condition. However you may be able to control

--blood sugars with diet and exercise, That would make you a diabetic with good sugar control.

I like the analogy of a frayed macrame plant hanger. If you only put light plastic pots in it, it won't break. You haven't fixed a broken system--just successfully avoided overstressing it.

[Initech]

17. God, Guns, Grits, And Penis Pills

[lonestarnot]

18. Stupid lump.

[Fred Sanders]

22. Selling snake oil. Literally. Yet there he is, a respected presidential candidate by the media.

They are in the same business, after all.

The Huckster openly pushes sugar and caffeine pills to cure diabetes....but it is Clinton's credibility under withering attack by the media.....it is all fucked up.