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Originally posted by: Campion
America will never elect a president as obese as Christie. Whether they want to say it or not, people see that sort of obesity as meaning the person is weak. It's an immediate judgement. And what poor starving person wants a fat guy representing them? Who was the last fat president we had? Taft? Wasn't he the guy who got stuck in the bathtub.
It's also why the major network news anchors don't have southern accents. People immediately judge that the person is dumber than everyone else.
Teddy Roosevelt wasn't exactly svelte, yet I think he was pretty popular.