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Too Fit to Be President?
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| Contributor | Penguin |
| Last Edited | Penguin Aug 01, 2008 12:21am |
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| Category | News |
| Media | Newspaper - Wall Street Journal |
| News Date | Friday, August 1, 2008 06:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | 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. |
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