Just in case you needed another reason to not vote for Mike Huckabee, he’s recently started trying to out-Palin Palin on her ability to come up with completely nonsensical utterly false statements and spin them to the public as truth. After Palin started it all with her entire hallucination on “death panels” being included in the Health Care bill, Politico reports that:

Former Arkansas GOP Gov. Mike Huckabee on Sunday defended his remark last week suggesting that recently-deceased Sen. Ted Kennedy (D-Mass.) would have been told to “go home to take pain pills and die” if he had been covered under President Barack Obama’s proposed health care overhaul.

However, on his weekend Fox News show “Huckabee,” he said his remarks were taken out of context, stating:

I spoke on my radio show and pointed out that when Senator Kennedy was diagnosed with terminal cancer, he chose to fight with all that was within him and to do that for life instead of choosing the pain pill that President Obama spoke of in his answer to James Stern during his White House town hall meeting. George Stephanopoulos, Time magazine, Huffington Post and scores are liberal bloggers have gone berserk, saying I have made things up.

However, the problem lies in the fact that Mike Huckabee is still lying. Obama never said that.

PolitiFact corrects this misconception, saying that Obama didn’t make the pain pill quote at all.

Rather, the initial Obama quote was entirely out of context:

While Obama did bring up the example of patients and their families possibly having to choose between a pill and a pacemaker at some point, he did it as a hypothetical example while emphasizing that the government’s role should be to provide background information so that patients and doctors can better sort through thorny, end-of-life issues.

It’s amazing what politicians can accomplish when they do a little fact-checking before going around making political statements.

However, given Obama’s newest not-so-cheery polling ratings, the public seems to be buying it anyway.

Hopefully someone can sort out what the health care bill really means by then. …But that person won’t be Huckabee.

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