Mike Schmuckabee is insane at the membrane
Very un-PC to say during an election year, but some truth every now and then is a good thing, right?
Kudos to Huckabee. I worry about diabetes. I don't worry about terrorism. Only cowards do.
I don't understand the animosity that leads to statements about permanent disqualification for higher office. Mike Huckabee is unequivocal about the necessity of resolve and the maintenance of overwhelming force in the confrontation of Islamic terrorism. Liberals have constructed a social calamity of a battle that has cost over 4000 lives IN FIVE YEARS! Even a REAL war might cost tens of thousands of lives yearly.
Diabetes costs that already. It doesn't lessen the threat of terrorism to highlight the real threat of diabetes and that the "epidemic" numbers are mostly directly the consequence of irresponsible behavior relative to diet and exercise.
Unless you have something more specific to say, it certainly sounds like your reactions have more to do with visceral emotion than with objective observation.
larry, I have type II diabetes. Luckily, very mild. One of my four sisters has it more severely, not only needing daily injections but losing her sight.
But "... that the illness may pose a greater threat than terrorism to the United States" is an overstatement by several orders of magnitude. And adds absolutely nothing on the plus side, just makes it look like diabetes sufferers are silly.
"Nearly 59 million Americans are at risk for type 2 diabetes."
Yep, if not more. Over 200 million Americans are at risk for being struck by lightning. So?
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'the "epidemic" numbers are mostly directly the consequence of irresponsible behavior relative to diet and exercise.'
Ask a real live MD about that. Last I heard, There was at best "a correlation" with obesity, contraindicated by more than half of sufferers being less than BMI30 or so. There is a better "correlation" of migraine sufferers having headaches, but headaches do not just strike those with migraines.
teqjack
I'm genuinely sorry about your condition and that of your sister. My mother, uncle, and best froend have Type 2 diabetes. My uncle controls his very well. When my mother was diagnosed, she had had a dramatic spell of ill health and frightening lab tests. It shocked her to attention and she lost probably at least 50 lbs.
Her health and blood sugar levels improved and she relaxed and eventually forgot her diet. Several years later, guess what? It's BACK. She has gone off shots and now she's back on them. By the way, I have MS and lost 40 lbs. in 2006 because I didn't
Sure, we've always had diabetes and there are other including probably inherent factors. But, a) the ration of obesity has been on the rise in America, probably particularly among lower income people. America's poor don't generally eat too little. Their food choices are poor and the exercise level is generally low. And b) poor lifestyle has brought a dramatic increase in childhood Type 2 diabetes, formerly called "adult onset" diabetes.
Now, a second important point is that Huckabee has not proposed and does not propose a federal government responsibility and solution. I'm a lifelong conservative, but too many conservatives, motivated more by emotional reaction than cogent philosophy and the contextual reality, hear a politician acknowledge a problem, and reflexively assume that the socialist demons are out for more money and government bureaucracy.
I see many cries about what is NOT a government responsibility and in terms of imposing supposed solutions, I agree. But to to disallow a conservative from even talking about a social problem, does not acknowledge reality and is politically deadly. In the first place, to actively ignore the reality that the popular culture and its audience look to government representatives for thoughts about private problems denies the reality that that battle is lost and conservatives can only abandon the field to liberals by ignoring it. Just keep it to thoughts and facilitating private and local efforts as much as possible.
Secondly, like it or not (and I don't) the federal government has taken upon itself a mountain (really too small a metaphor) of medical liability. And to use the pop-culture platform of government to advocate behavior that will minimize costs on the front end is bare fiscal prudence. I have said for years that conservatives need to master that ideological-practical balance.
Huckabee does that in unprecedented fashion. Liberals on the street don't hate him because he doesn't care about their problems. If they hate him, it's because he has the audacity to believe in God and social virtue.
But, Huckabee also understands human nature and how it is corrupted by overactive government. And he cited The Constitution and the 10th Amendment particularly, more than any other candidate save Ron Paul, the paleoconservative from previous centuries on national security and humanity
Americans like to say they are the home of the brave but really they are cowards. That is the only logical explanation of people who think terrorism is a bigger threat to us than diabetes.
teqjack
I'm genuinely sorry about your condition and that of your sister. My mother, uncle, and best froend have Type 2 diabetes. My uncle controls his very well. When my mother was diagnosed, she had had a dramatic spell of ill health and frightening lab tests. It shocked her to attention and she lost probably at least 50 lbs.
Her health and blood sugar levels improved and she relaxed and eventually forgot her diet. Several years later, guess what? It's BACK. She has gone off shots and now she's back on them. By the way, I have MS and lost 40 lbs. in 2006 because I didn't
Sure, we've always had diabetes and there are other including probably inherent factors. But, a) the ration of obesity has been on the rise in America, probably particularly among lower income people. America's poor don't generally eat too little. Their food choices are poor and the exercise level is generally low. And b) poor lifestyle has brought a dramatic increase in childhood Type 2 diabetes, formerly called "adult onset" diabetes.
Now, a second important point is that Huckabee has not proposed and does not propose a federal government responsibility and solution. I'm a lifelong conservative, but too many conservatives, motivated more by emotional reaction than cogent philosophy and the contextual reality, hear a politician acknowledge a problem, and reflexively assume that the socialist demons are out for more money and government bureaucracy.
I see many cries about what is NOT a government responsibility and in terms of imposing supposed solutions, I agree. But to to disallow a conservative from even talking about a social problem, does not acknowledge reality and is politically deadly. In the first place, to actively ignore the reality that the popular culture and its audience look to government representatives for thoughts about private problems denies the reality that that battle is lost and conservatives can only abandon the field to liberals by ignoring it. Just keep it to thoughts and facilitating private and local efforts as much as possible.
Secondly, like it or not (and I don't) the federal government has taken upon itself a mountain (really too small a metaphor) of medical liability. And to use the pop-culture platform of government to advocate behavior that will minimize costs on the front end is bare fiscal prudence. I have said for years that conservatives need to master that ideological-practical balance.
Huckabee does that in unprecedented fashion. Liberals on the street don't hate him because he doesn't care about their problems. If they hate him, it's because he has the audacity to believe in God and social virtue.
But, Huckabee also understands human nature and how it is corrupted by overactive government. And he cited The Constitution and the 10th Amendment particularly, more than any other candidate save Ron Paul, the paleoconservative from previous centuries on national security and humanity
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