Report: Obama’s Slim Build Could Turn Off America’s Portly Voters

Kid you not:

"Forget arrogance, Barack Obama is just too skinny to be president.

That’s the assertion put forth in an article by The Wall Street Journal, which reported Friday that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee may be turning off voters by refusing to chow down at every pit stop on the campaign trail. The newspaper notes that 66 percent of the voting-age population is overweight — while 32 percent fits the definition of obese — and that could be hurting Obama.

“He’s too new … and he needs to put some meat on his bones,” Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who said she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, told the Journal."

http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/08/03/report-obamas-slim-build-could-turn-off-americas-portly-voters/

:puke:

then I felt sick--

:crazy:

We get depressed because we are fat -- and then we eat to make ourselves feel less depressed.

Obama's physical grace is one of his strengths. It is a sign of youth and vitality. He looks like a basketball player, and people like that look. It's much preferred to the look of a football player for example.

We associate thin with young, successful, rich and beautiful. Those concepts go together. Americans love the thin, young, successful, rich and beautiful.

... not his body.

as the du google ads.......

Sheesh how lame can you get? They won't vote for Obama because he's young, healthy and thin but they'll vote for McCain who is old, dottery and has had cancer. Go figure.

We didn't hear anything about such nonsense at all in 2004.

Of course we did hear about how marvelously well George W. Bush "connects" (whatever that means) with regular Americans (who are of course always white). Bush, mind you, was in terrific physical health, exercised regularly and did not have an extra ounce of fat on him (that government run health care he has did not hurt either).

:banghead: :banghead: :nuke: :nuke:

He should lighten up a bit

It's the same old, "The president should be no better that the average person, someone you could have a beer with" crap - and where exactly has that gotten us?

More to the point, it's more "He thinks he's better that us" = "elitist" = "uppity". Bush I was very skinny, and no one cared.

Otherwise if I thought I could do the job, I'd just vote for myself. What kind of stupid bullshit is this? Oh I forgot, we're in America now...where for the past 8 years our news organizations have become administration whores and have fed us the corporate republican line and our administration has done all it could to decimate education.

Just like Americans like their actors and models with meat on their bones. Ridiculous.

But on a more positive note, I think this shows just how desperate the GOP and their friends in the media have become. After all, wasn't the Wall Street Journal the same publication that polled Obama at 15 points ahead of McCain?

....he's too fat
not in debt enough
too black
too white

blah-de-blah

What a bunch of pretentious crap. Obama does NOT have to look and act like everyone else to be President. If anything, he has to NOT look and act like everyone else. We need a LEADER, not a paper doll version of ourselves. Sheeeesh!

Effing surreal.

I happen to live in one of the most fit communities in the Nation.

But I will be spending this week in Tahoe, where the sidewalks are full of people who appear to be fresh out of a feedlot.

Why do you think Howard Taft was elected?

...being "too skinny" - and a bunch of other rediculous crap.

I thought it had to be a joke but no - they're USING it!

:rofl:

This thread from yesterday tells a little of the backstory of this ridiculous meme:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x3718863

It's just another of their daily lightweight (pun intended) accusations against Obama, as a reaction against the success of his overseas trip the week before.

You may have noticed that each insult/accusation is either pure projection (something that's actually true of McCain or of the GOP - like playing the race card) or it takes one of Obama's strength and makes it sound like a liability - just like they did with Kerry's war record. If not one of those two kinds of "reasoning", then it's along the lines of characterizing Obama as "arrogant" (read "uppity" or "doesn't know his place"). All of it is straight out of the Rovian campaign playbook, as you probably already recognize. And if it's not Rovian, I swear sometimes I think they're paying that vapid, superficial Maureen Dowd as campaign consultant.

Just a little daily chipping away, hoping something sticks, no matter how unsubstantial the charges thay plant, to increase doubt about him in the "mind" of the electorate.

It would be funny if it weren't so true & tragic.

we're in BIG trouble.

:rofl:

When Al Gore put on a few pounds during the 2000 campaign (too many doughnuts I imagine-- how I can identify with that!) the corporate press ran pictures of him in his increasingly tight jeans, implying he was trying to look sexy. Poor guy. As if there weren't tens of thousands of us out there confronting the same problem every day. Trying to look sexy, indeed!

....so the assinine suggestion is just that. Assinine.

The moon "could be" made of green cheese. But it's NOT.

Of course from Faux Noose, what else can we expect?

Bwah!

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O.M.G.!!!!!!!! You can't mean that... News Corp is spreading RUMORS, can you? 1!11!11! :wtf:

I mean, c'mon -- who's going to snub him for such a lightweight reason as his slim build? There are more important issues to consider -- his 'cycling and the casual clothes he wears while he rides, his preference for orange juice over coffee . . . I mean, the man probably reads, and who wants a President so out of sync with the interests of the American boobgeoisie?

Get it? :shrug:

fuggin GDI.

Boy, how far the WSJ has fallen, huh? Didn't they used to be a respected paper?

1. His thin body might turn off thicker bodied voters.

2. His dark skin might turn off lighter skinned voters.

It's the exact same type of argument. One's just a little uglier than the other.

The premise being that if it's okay to be prejudiced against him for one superficial physical trait, then it's okay to be prejudiced against him for another one.

You hang around racists long enough...and I have...you find them making these arguments all day.

(Also, if you hang around racists long enough...and I have...you see racism everywhere. Doesn't mean it's not there.)

As a thin woman myself, I've found that the hate and vitriol coming from some of the "portly" members of my sex is truly astounding. "Skinny girls," that's what we are... being thin makes us "girls" instead of women, in the minds of these people, and that's just the start. There are some who throw out accusations of anorexia toward anyone underweight, and sneer at us accusing us of hating our bodies, because being thin cannot possibly be natural or normal for anyone.

I've always found it disgusting that it is socially unacceptable for someone to tell someone else that they should lose weight, but is perfectly all right to tell someone they're "too thin" and should "put on a few pounds."

Thin discrimination and prejudice. I've been wondering how long it would take.

wrote this for the Wall Street Urinal. She did her research by putting a message on Yayhoo Message Boards asking "Is Barack Obama too thin?" One person replied with an affirmative and the "reporter" asked to interview her. That's it.

Now its Faux Nuze' turn to echo it back.

This blog sums up the story nicely, http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/10322.html

The topic has now been deleted from the Yayhoo board.

DUer Clobert Watcher has made an enrty for Amy on Wikiality
http://www.wikiality.com/Amy_Chozick