The Wall Street Journal asks, “Is Barack Obama too Fit?”
Yes… Rupert Murdoch will indeed destroy The Wall Street Journal. Want proof?
Today The Wall Street Journal asked the question, is Barack Obama To Fit to Be President?
I know you are dying to read it, so here are a few excerpts:
Speaking to donors at a San Diego fund-raiser last month, Barack Obama reassured the crowd that he wouldn’t give in to Republican tactics to throw his candidacy off track.
“Listen, I’m skinny but I’m tough,” Sen. Obama said.
But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama’s skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.
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“He’s too new … and he needs to put some meat on his bones,” says Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who says she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.
“I won’t vote for any beanpole guy,” another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board.
Okay I’ve got to stop right here and say something to the former Clinton supporter.
What?!!!!!!! You say you supported Clinton. I may be presumptuous but, by supporting Clinton, I’ll infer that you agreed with her stance on abortion rights, the need for universal healthcare, that the war in Iraq should end, that the huge tax breaks given to very richest Americans should be repealed, and that our country needs to invest in alternative energy sources.
If you agree with those statements, why would you vote for McCain instead of the “beanpole guy” who also believes those things? McCain’s platform isn’t anywhere close to Hillary’s platform. Are you going to vote for McCain? You can’t be serious when you say you won’t vote for Obama because, if you are, you are incredibly stupid. And you know what I think? I think maybe we shouldn’t let stupid people like you vote.
Now, back to that Wall Street Journal article where you’ll find out even more stuff about the candidates’ health and eating habits that should weigh heavily on your minds when you cast your vote in November:
Raised by a Midwestern grandmother, Sen. Obama didn’t begin to slim down until he played basketball regularly in high school.
These days he stays away from junk food and instead snacks on MET-Rx chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and drinks Black Forest Berry Honest Tea, a healthy organic brew. (Sen. McCain is said to have a weakness for Butterfinger candy bars, jelly beans, and coffee and doughnuts from Dunkin’ Donuts.)
Oh, and this article is in the “Editors’ Picks” section.
