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Too Fit to Be President?
Facing an Overweight Electorate, Barack Obama Might Find Low Body Fat a Drawback
By AMY CHOZICK
August 1, 2008; Page W1

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.

What in blue blazing fucking HELL is this?

Heaven forefend that election reporting be about the issues that are facing this country: Iraq. Afghanistan, THE ECONOMY STUPID!

No, the Wall Street Journal has to run this piece of SHIT that has less to do with the election than the dingleberries hanging off the flaming asscrack of the worthless waste of precious oxygen that assigned this article!

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If this is the sort of crap that is going to masquerade as election reporting, I predict I'm going to rant a whole lot between now and Nov. 2.