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Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children?

Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children?

  • Yes it sends the wrong message

    Votes: 10 18.9%

  • No. It's perfectly acceptable.

    Votes: 43 81.1%
  • Total voters
    53
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

vesper said:
Lead the world? Hell I would be happy with a jolly fat person at this point that could lead this country by promoting sound policies that will insure it will be around for another 100 years.
A lot of folks with weight issues are due to things out of their control. It has nothing to do with eating too much or eating the wrong foods. Everyone has at least one fat person in their family and they don't view them as sending young minds a negative message. The negative messages being sent to young children are often being sent by fit, thin people.
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So why have health classes and PE classes in school then? Why? What's the point in kids reading their health books if we're going to have a medically rotund person as chief CEO of the country?


Why not just have "Cheeto and soda" classes? Those seem to be our values.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
It's fine if a person wants to be fat or is fat. Nobody is saying those are bad people. What we are saying is that those people shouldn't be leading the world. Would you let a pack a day smoker lead the world who actually had a smoke in their hands on TV? No. Why would you let a medically fat person run the world and be on TV? It's the same thing.

The same negative health message is sent to young minds of young children. Fat is okay. Being really fat is even so okay that you can run the world. That is the wrong message for developing minds.
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Frankly what the children will think of the president based on how he/she looks is somewhere below whether my turds formed the shape of a D or a R as a reason to vote for a candidate.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
So why have health classes and PE classes in school then? Why? What's the point in kids reading their health books if we're going to have a medically rotund person as chief CEO of the country?


Why not just have "Cheeto and soda" classes? Those seem to be our values.
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I hope you never produce a child with a thyroid disease. Cause I guess you are the one that can tell him/her that they will never qualifiy to be president of the U.S. because of their weight and they need to lower their expectations now in reaching for anything too high because it will never happen.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

vesper said:
I hope you never produce a child with a thyroid disease. Cause I guess you are the one that can tell him/her that they will never qualifiy to be president of the U.S. because of their weight and they need to lower their expectations now in reaching for anything too high because it will never happen.
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So is that what they're going to tell Putin when they plop alongside him on the international stage and make us look the fool? Are they going to be like "Remember my Thyroid disease!!!! Don't forget to report that!!!."

:lamo


And that's complete bs by the way. That isn't why they're fat. It's a symptom of them being fat.


That brings up another good point though. Should we be electing medically unhealthy people to office?
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
So is that what they're going to tell Putin when they plop alongside him on the international stage and make us look the fool? Are they going to be like "Remember my Thyroid disease!!!! Don't forget to report that!!!."

:lamo


And that's complete bs by the way. That isn't why they're fat. It's a symptom of them being fat.


That brings up another good point though. Should we be electing medically unhealthy people to office?
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Yes. Especially if we're SURE they will die within a few years.

The shorter period a politician is in charge the better.





I'm only half kidding.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
So is that what they're going to tell Putin when they plop alongside him on the international stage and make us look the fool? Are they going to be like "Remember my Thyroid disease!!!! Don't forget to report that!!!."

:lamo


And that's complete bs by the way. That isn't why they're fat. It's a symptom of them being fat.


That brings up another good point though. Should we be electing medically unhealthy people to office?
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Why are we so concerned about what Vladimir Putin thinks?
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Kobie said:
Why are we so concerned about what Vladimir Putin thinks?
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I've been wondering that myself.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Kobie said:
Why are we so concerned about what Vladimir Putin thinks?
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Because it matters geopolitical.


That's like asking why is what the doctor thinks important in the surgery room..



Amazing that such a post could be seen as wisdom on a political forum.. I guess that says a lot about this fora..
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
Because it matters geopolitical.

That's like asking why is what the doctor thinks important in the surgery room..

Amazing that such a post could be seen as wisdom on a political forum.. I guess that says a lot about this fora..
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LOL wut.

So apparently Vladimir Putin's opinion of our president's weight should be a concern of ours headed into the voting booth, comparable to that of doctor performing surgery.

That's utterly asinine.

I am no fan of Chris Christie's, but the idea that his weight somehow should disqualify him from office because it would make the U.S. look bad geopolitically is insane.
 
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Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Kobie said:
LOL wut.

So apparently Vladimir Putin's opinion of our president's weight should be a concern of ours headed into the voting booth, comparable to that of doctor performing surgery.

That's utterly asinine.

I am no fan of Chris Christie's, but the idea that his weight somehow should disqualify him from office because it would make the U.S. look bad geopolitically is insane.
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Everything you just typed is completely contradictory on a political level.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children?

Should this even be allowed considering the health message it sends to US children that the leader of the free world can be medically fat?
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While I can certainly see the impact that it might have, I think the responsibility of physical health lies mostly with parents. People are overweight for a variety of reasons, and I should hope that good parenting that attempts to keep a child at as healthy a weight as possible, coupled with looking past the weight issues of a political leader would dilute any influence it may have. I also think we need to understand that there is thin line between attempting to get kids healthy and fight obesity and fat shaming.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

DA60 said:
1) Obama apparently quit smoking.

Obama jokes that first lady 'scared' him into quitting smoking - NBC News


And I quit smoking as well (and crack and gambling and drinking and overeating).
Smoking is both an emotional and physical addiction...overeating is tough but only emotional. Quitting smoking is harder, imo (and I am not going to debate people about it - it is).

And it all depends how much you smoke as well.

Fat is fat.


2) I don't care if POTUS's have vices...but not ones that seriously jeopardize their health...as being a fat pig does (especially if you are middle aged like Christie). You don't believe me - ask a doctor.

Smoking a couple cigs or getting bj's from interns is not going to give you a stroke probably...but being really fat and middle aged just might.

I don't want a repeat of what happened to Wilson

Woodrow Wilson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia


I am not going to debate this.

Being in decent shape (i.e. not a fat pig) is the VERY LEAST you can do if you are going to be the most powerful person in the world with the ability to start WW3 on a virtual whim.

And the fact that this ding dong cannot even manage that without surgery proves that he is a VERY weak man.

Lots of people are very weak - I can be (as shown from above). But they are not running for President.

Hey, I am a nobody. And if I can quit over eating/crack/smoking/gambling/drinking...then this slob can at least quit pigging out for the good of the nation. If he can't even do that on his own, then he has no business being POTUS, imo.

You don't agree...fine.


We are done on this.


Good day.
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You can quit cigarettes in one day, and crack, and gambling, and even over eating.

You can't instantly drop all the pounds one needs in a say.

The dude had lost, at last I can dig up back in May, over 85 pounds.... so probably more by now.

Cut the fat mother ****er a break, he is working on it.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
Everything you just typed is completely contradictory on a political level.
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How so?

Is it your claim that no person of heft has ever been an effective world leader?
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
Exactly.


What's the societal message little Jimmy gets when he see's that the person who leads the world can't actually fit into their own Navies submarines?


What's that say about that society to a kid who is too young to process any other info save for imagery? We shouldn't have a human piglet for leader of the free world. It sends a message of irresponsibility.
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You know what else sends a message of irresponsibility.

ADVOCATING PICKING A PRESIDENT WITH THE SAME STANDARDS AS A GOD DAMNED PROM QUEEN.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

DA60 said:
I was.


Good day.
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Wait!!!


We're not done yet@!
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

And for the record, for the ridiculously politically correct here, I called Christie a 'fat pig'.

The 'fat' is because he is fat.

The 'pig' is because I despise him as a politician.

I do NOT call any fat people 'pigs' (except myself when I was fat)...unless I don't like them, but then I would call them a pig no matter what.


Oh...and btw...once again, Christie is a...

...FAT PIG!

And I don't want fat people as POTUS's.

The POTUS should be fit (or reasonably so). Not for image, for national security. I don't want a fat President having a stroke in the middle of a war.


:)

Good day all.
 
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Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

If Hillary wants to be president, she's going to have to slim down. There's just no other way to look at it after this thread. I'm convinced.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

NIMBY said:
Or a smoking Speaker that Paul Ryan complains about in his new book.
He sits as far from him as possible .
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The voters in Ohio's 8th congressional district pretty much control that one. Most people don't know or care if the Speaker of the House smokes and drinks...or is crazy, as was the case with Pelosi.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children?

Should this even be allowed considering the health message it sends to US children that the leader of the free world can be medically fat?
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'Medically fat'?
Ohferf*cksake.

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Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Cephus said:
Nope, they're not. Is Stephen Hawking's brain worse because of his body?
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Probably.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

humbolt said:
If Hillary wants to be president, she's going to have to slim down. There's just no other way to look at it after this thread. I'm convinced.
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She'll get the Kardashian fan vote.
I saw something somewhere by someone that showed how Hillary was going to exploit her, um, prodigious attributes.
I remember it was a campaign strategy against Biden.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

bubbabgone said:
She'll get the Kardashian fan vote.
I saw something somewhere by someone that showed how Hillary was going to exploit her, um, prodigious attributes.
I remember it was a campaign strategy against Biden.
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Ah, the old cellulite strategy. There's just nothing quite like choosing a president based on body mass - because of the children, of course. If the children can't have cookies, then by golly we're just going to have to elect a human zipper as president. It's only fair, except if you've had a concussion, dodged sniper fire and stuff like that. Then you're entitled to a pass for pain and suffering, and with a minor swing of the hips, Biden is knocked off the dais, and Warren doesn't stand a chance.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

Ryan5 said:
Yes but the question of the poll is, do you think it sends the wrong message to US children health wise?
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Does it send a good message? No. That's the short answer for an incredibly shallow question. But, this answer by someone else sums it up perfectly...
The Mark said:
I'd take a smart fat person who had the right goals over an idiot or someone easily bought any day.
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The #1 factor is, or at least should be, running the country.

Example: President Obama is thin and appears to be very fit. Fat lotta good that's doing us.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

radcen said:
Does it send a good message? No. That's the short answer for an incredibly shallow question. But, this answer by someone else sums it up perfectly...

The #1 factor is, or at least should be, running the country.

Example: President Obama is thin and appears to be very fit. Fat lotta good that's doing us.
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Which makes me wonder why was he attacked by some on the right for that video of him doing sissy exercises in a hotel gym.
 
Re: Is electing a medically fat US President sending the wrong message to US children

She's 66 years old, ferchrissakes, and nowhere near obese. You want someone shallow enough to have had liposuction and cosmetic surgery? Has politics gone that far down the road?
 
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