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lwcon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:43 AM
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The little things that actually matter
Blogger Digby discovers that it's more important to look good than govern good:

MSNBC guest Karen Hanratty "Republican Strategist" on Gore:

There was a blind quote in one of the papers, actually Carville, James Carville said if he loses 15 pounds we'll know he's running, and I thought, it's going to take a lot more than that! (Gales of laughter on the panel.)

Presidents who win are usually very athletic. Bush runs like a seven minute mile! And Clinton liked hamburgers but he worked out.

Those are the little things that actually matter.


There you have it.


To paraphrase John Locke: "An unsound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of the unhappy state in this country."

But, lawdy, that bike riding and brush-clearing really pay off.

Even liberal Canadian rockers have taken notice. Sez Neil Young:

One thing about Bush: You’ve got to respect him for being in such good physical condition. He works like hell to be fit. That’s a great example at his age.


If Mr. "Impeach the President" sees the benefits of a studly statesman, so should anyone who doesn't give a shit that we're killing and dying in the Middle East for no reason, running up a record deficit, abandoning the disadvantaged, defiling the Constitution, and trashing the environment.

C'mon, who would you rather have represent our country — gimpy FDR or male babe Warren G. Harding?

So, in November 2008, remember the little things that actually matter: whether you want to spend the next four or eight years looking at a big tubby geek or a leggy chorus boy?

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hobbit709 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:47 AM
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1. I don't care what the president looks like on the outside
I care about what the president is on the inside. I care more for brains, rational logic and integrity than in how fast one can run a mile.
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varkam Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 09:55 AM
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2. I say we bring back Taft.
:D
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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:01 AM
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3. Bush works out, but he's hardly athletic
there is a big difference. I know people in good shape who have little coordination at all. If Bush was such a great athlete then why does that idiot wreck his bike so much? I mean the guy is so uncoordinated not only did he drop his dog on his head at a baseball game but he wrecked a segway that was supposed to be unwreckable and idiot proof.
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NJCher Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:14 AM
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4. Gore, with pounds, looks better than bush any day
Regardless of any extra pounds, Gore still looks way better than bush could ever hope to look.

Besides, let he who is without sin cast the first stone. Not many Americans are in a position to judge Al Gore over some extra pounds.



Cher

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Merlot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Apr-24-07 10:30 AM
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5. Well the, according to this, Edwards is their candidate?
Because all they (repub stratigests) can talk about it how good looking he is.

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