October 1, 2011

Teaching Aids: Christie. Too Fat to Lead?

Today neoneocon continues her observations on the suitability of Chris Christie to be president given his ample girth. She notes:

Churchill, as many have pointed out, had a number of supposed risk factors but lived to be 90, and was PM for the last time at the age of 80. I think this tut-tutting at the fat is one of the vestiges of Puritanism in our society, which has always had that tendency. Sir Winston would not approve.
Nor do I. Here's another teaching aid for those you know who think Christie is too big to be president while maintaining that our Smoking President Slim is "too smart to fail."

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Posted by Vanderleun at October 1, 2011 2:06 PM
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It will be Michelle Obama's legacy. She can go back to being ashamed of her country.

Posted by: RedCarolina at October 1, 2011 2:50 PM

Gross weight is an acceptable yardstick for wannabe sumo masters,
but GOP planners had better gauge their candidates by the fire in the belly.

Posted by: GaGator at October 1, 2011 3:03 PM

The appeal of Christie is how he makes union thugs and press people cry. His fatliness is only a very big plus, so to speak.

Posted by: Mme Scherzo at October 1, 2011 3:18 PM

170 lbs?

Posted by: james wilson at October 1, 2011 5:04 PM

He's just plain big.

Posted by: David at October 1, 2011 5:50 PM

Good Argument, but it won't work in TV America. The sad truth is neither Chris Christie nor I could win a Presidential election in 21st century America.

P.S. British PMs are chosen by their colleagues in Parliament, not popular election.

Posted by: Fat Man at October 1, 2011 9:17 PM

Girthists!

Posted by: monkeyfan at October 2, 2011 9:12 AM

If he is a tenth of the man that Churchill became in times of adversity then America has itself a winner.

Posted by: thud at October 2, 2011 1:24 PM

I'd like to take this opportunity to say the portrait on the left was taken by the great photographer Yousuf Karsh, an Armenian. When he took the portrait of that lovable old Fabian, George Bernard Shaw, Shaw said to him "I have many friends among the Armenians, but to keep them strong and healthy they should be exterminated every little while."

pg 179 The Life of Yousuf Karsh by Maria Tippett.

Posted by: Bonny Kate at October 2, 2011 1:32 PM

Christi is a Republican? I guess he is in the same sense that Specter was.

Posted by: Molon Labe at October 8, 2011 9:05 PM