Christie, Still Not Running for President, Runs Into a Medical Detour
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. (more)
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
Wait, before you go…AP via Google News:
The blunt-talking governor, who some Republicans have been trying to persuade to run for president, was taken to a hospital Thursday after he had difficulty breathing.
Christie, who uses an inhaler for asthma, was headed to a bill signing when he felt unwell. The 48-year-old walked into Somerset Medical Center at around 10:30 a.m., said Maria Comella, his deputy chief of staff.
Christie’s EKG, blood work and chest X-ray were normal, and the governor expects to be discharged from the hospital Thursday evening, Comella said.
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