Get a load of this crap: Huckabee weighing in on Ted Kennedy's health care

Mira

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Fri Aug-28-09 04:51 PM
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Get a load of this crap: Huckabee weighing in on Ted Kennedy's health care

Huckabee: Kennedy Would Have Been Urged To Die Earlier Under ObamaCare

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/28/huckabee-kennedy-would-ha_n_271605.html"> read the story here

Conservative media figures are blasting Democrats for trying to draw political gain from the death of Senator Ted Kennedy. But on Thursday, it was one of their own -- former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee -- who went there.

The 2008 Republican presidential candidate suggested during his radio show, "The Huckabee Report," on Thursday that, under President Obama's health care plan, Kennedy would have been told to "go home to take pain pills and die" during his last year of life.

"t was President Obama himself who suggested that seniors who don't have as long to live might want to just consider taking a pain pill instead of getting an expensive operation to cure them," said Huckabee. "Yet when Sen. Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal brain cancer at 77, did he give up on life and go home to take pain pills and die? Of course not. He freely did what most of us would do. He choose an expensive operation and painful follow up treatments. He saw his work as vitally important and so he fought for every minute he could stay on this earth doing it. He would be a very fortunate man if his heroic last few months were what future generations remember him most for."

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NewJeffCT

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Fri Aug-28-09 04:57 PM
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1. They really have no shame

he couldn't even wait until the body was cold...

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RamboLiberal

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Fri Aug-28-09 04:58 PM
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2. Earlier thread on this

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x6412965

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JBoy

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:02 PM
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3. He had to hurry, so he could beat Palin to the bottom.

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State the Obvious

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:17 PM
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4. Thank you Mr. Huckabee, for giving us a rebuttal to those insane Republican accusations....

Your words have provided us with a perfect example of Republican hypocrisy.

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redqueen

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:18 PM
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5. He's a lying soulless a-hole.

And how DARE they accuse *us* of politicizing Teddy's death... more classic projection from the party that perfected it.

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Chemisse

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:47 PM
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6. What an ass he is

Pushing the death panel fallacy using Kennedy's death, is just shameless.

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BuyingThyme

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Fri Aug-28-09 05:50 PM
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7. The backlash cometh.

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