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 Christie, Still Not Running for President, Runs Into a Medical DetourPosted on Jul 28, 2011
Chris Christie, who maintains he will not run for president although he recently made a visit to Iowa and Mitt Romney declared the New Jersey governor as his second choice for running mate, was hospitalized Thursday after an asthma attack. Conventional wisdom would suggest that someone of Christie’s obese proportions would not stand a chance in presidential politics—where entire newsrooms scrutinize waistlines and bald men stand a chance only if they are running against Hitler—but his name has been bandied about recently. Time—and surely pollsters—will tell whether this medical episode affects Christie’s chances of winning an office he says he does not want. He seems to be doing fine, by the way. We cannot let an item about Christie end without drawing your attention to the “This American Life” episode, embedded below, that exposes his major claim to fame—a case that many are calling an abuse of the justice system.—PZS
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By Matthew, July 30, 2011 at 2:45 pm Link to this comment
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Politics aside, it’s not healthly to carry around that much weight. If he doesn’t run for president, he might be wise to take up running.
That, and he kind of looks like Lou Costello.
Report thisBy John Swartz, July 29, 2011 at 3:16 pm Link to this comment
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Isn’t asthma a preexisting condition? Funny he wasn’t excluded from receiving
Report thishealthcare years ago.
By Denise Johnson, July 29, 2011 at 11:46 am Link to this comment
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Isn’t he lucky he had government funded health insurance.
Report thisBy GoyToy, July 29, 2011 at 11:05 am Link to this comment
Fat Americans, and there are lot of them, would vote for another fat guy for prez cause we like to elect people who look like one of us. Big reason why we have no real leadership.
Report thisBy Go Right Young Man, July 29, 2011 at 9:20 am Link to this comment
TDoff,
Flail about trying to save-face all you want, you horrendous piece of shit. What you wrote here about another human-being is deplorable.
Let me make this clear. You are a putrid and disgusting individual.
Report thisBy rend`, July 29, 2011 at 8:58 am Link to this comment
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my man need to wack back the cheap carb load and tap some of those fat stores.
Report thisBy TDoff, July 29, 2011 at 7:54 am Link to this comment
GRYM, Geez, I compliment you on finally speaking a few words of truth, and you clumsily attempt to falsely insult/threaten me? I return to my original correct assessment of you, you are an irrelevant nonentity, of which I shall think/speak no more. Except to wonder…are you, by chance, an unknown offspring of the Bachmann clan? Or the identitwin of an infant male Palin?
Report thisBy TDoff, July 29, 2011 at 7:15 am Link to this comment
Finally, finally, GRTM speaks a few words of truth on a subject of which he and his ilk are intimately familiar and practice incessantly: Hypocrisy.
Now give us your definition of ‘Dumb’, GRYM. Please, if possible, without reciting your entire life story.
Report thisBy Go Right Young Man, July 29, 2011 at 4:40 am Link to this comment
Hypocrisy: a feigning to be what one is not or to believe what one does not; especially : the false assumption of an appearance of virtue
Queenie, berniem, TDoff.
Each of you have whined incessantly, like petulant children, about the really really mean words from those republican bad men.
Report thisBy r nemo, July 29, 2011 at 2:50 am Link to this comment
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The man is clearly obese! I don’t think we need to have an obese
man in the white house. It sets a bad example for a country
already way too fat! Especially one who is so stupid and
possessed by the demon of conservatism.
Besides he would break the chair in oval office!
Report thisBy berniem, July 28, 2011 at 5:35 pm Link to this comment
Perhaps this is Nature’s way of saving the voters of NJ having to recall this self-serving ogre!
Report thisBy Queenie, July 28, 2011 at 5:20 pm Link to this comment
“He seems to be doing fine, by the way.”
Shit. Big mouth. Fat head. Lard arse.
He had difficulty breathing because his gut is cutting off his lungs. The moron.
I hope he isn’t lecturing union firemen in the above picture. He just might need rescuing.
Report thisBy TDoff, July 28, 2011 at 2:02 pm Link to this comment
Too bad about Chris. Had Christie been formally, officially declared brain-dead while hospitalized, he could have entered and won the republican primary, no contest, over all the other candidates, whose mental states are in doubt.
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