I think Chris Christie’s extreme obesity raises serious questions about his health. In July, he was hospitalized because he couldn’t breath. If he were to run for and win the nomination, we’d have to utilize much more than the ordinary scrutiny on his running mate, who could become president at any time. But Christie is not too fat to be president. He’s too much of a dick to be president.
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Martin Longman a contributing editor at the Washington Monthly. He is also the founder of Booman Tribune and Progress Pond. He has a degree in philosophy from Western Michigan University.
Never underestimate what a billion dollars in advertising can do to transform “too much of a dick” into “a patriotic leader and loving family man (who happens to be fully engorged).”
I disagree that just because he’s fat, he’s liable to drop dead. I don’t know his medical history, but I work at a women’s fitness club and we have heavy women who are actually quite fit, don’t have heart disease, diabetes, or any other serious health problems. And I had to be taken to the hospital a few years ago with chest pains and trouble breathing, and I’m thin.
But as you said, I would prefer to focus on the fact that he is, in fact, an asshole. Let people look at his record and his performance, not his size. That would be enough to do it, really.
the fact that’s he’s been hospitalized in the last three months indicates to me that his health is not solid, and I do think his extreme obesity is probably the reason why.
It almost certainly isn’t helping much, but fat people can be very fit too.
If America sees him as a man who will take principled stands and then fight for those positions regardless what the “whip count” says he could send the Hamlet in the White House back to Chicago.
Then we are truly fucked.
America is thirsting for leadership and Barack Obama hasn’t provided it. Nobody who voted for him in ’08 was looking for Bush III.
you’re a broken record. It isn’t interesting.
Sadly Booman…you’ve got it reversed.
He is not “… too much of a dick to be president” In fact his “dickness” is the sole reason that he is being considered. I have said here many times that the first person to stand up and start talking street to the American public will be a big national winner regardless of what he is saying, who he is or the content of his political beliefs.
Christie is that person.
But…his sheer, disgusting obesity will stop him from winning.
Imagine the scene at the
weigh-indebate w/Obama. There isn’t a podium large enough to stop Obama from turning him into a cartoon character in about 15 seconds.We are a nation of imageheads, Booman. It has been drilled into us from early childhood that if it looks good, it is good, and the drilling has intesified mightily since the ’90s began. This image addiction was a major role in the winning of the last three presidencies. Clinton, Bush and Obama simply looked “better” than their opponents…both their electoral opponents and their primary opponents.
Now look at these pictures:
The ultimate male (
political) model meets the poster boy for America’s obesity problem. Even fat people won’t vote for him, because they have been mediatranced into self-loathing just as has most of the rest of the population.He doesn’t have a shot and he knows it.
But if he were to “Biggest Loser” himself down to some semblance of a human weight?
Bet on it.
Not this time, though. Too late.
However…he might be successful as a comic relief/sidekick/verbal hitman/VP candidate for someone bland and model-ish himself.
Like Mr. Haircut.
Yup.
Watch.
If he Ratpub fix isn’t already in for Marco Rubio…a wonderful tactic to cop the Hispanic vote from Obama, by the way…young Mr. Blubber might be a very useful campaign tool. And then he’d have 8 years to lose the flab. The nice doctors in he White House would be happy to help him, I am sure.
Think of it!
Chris Christie on uppers!!!
The mind boggles.
Later…
AG
The thing about the pictures when Obama went to Patterson after Irene is that this past week Christie was saying that Obama was not doing much of anything.
He has to be consistent. That was a mistake.
I think he has asthma and that’s why he had trouble breathing.
I have created a brand new mnemonic for the New Jersey Governor if he decides to get in the presidential race. I will refer to him as 3C, i.e.,
Chris Christie Cream = 3C
Not being able to breathe is not a serious health problem for a Republican. Their brains, such as they are, are quite used to not getting oxygen.