Some people think that Chris Christie is much too out of shape to effectively hold office...

[MADem]

111. That guy is not just "big," though. You are not taking MY point.

It's not just "fat." Fat is NOT where it is at. This man is beyond portly, beyond fat, even beyond "morbidly obese." He is what the doctors call "super obese." It's scary to look at him. Anyone who does not "notice" it because of some misguided sense that they are being "mean," is being willfully, deliberately obtuse.

He's not pleasingly plump like Adele or Queen Latifah, or "thick" like Bill Clinton back in his cheeseburger days. He's not even "Jackie Gleason big." He looks less healthy than John Candy did, right before the poor guy died. The governor does not look like he has any muscle tone. He looks like he doesn't move at all. Adele, Queen and Bill (even the fat Bill) didn't have any trouble MOVING. The first two can belt out a tune like no one's business, not wheezing after four bars, and Bill Clinton never had any trouble blowing the sax. And Jackie Gleason golfed and tap danced till the day he died, damn near. John Candy, unhealthily fat as he was, could move really well--he had both flexibility and muscle tone.

It's not simply " fat " that I am talking about, here. It's the complete absence of any kind of discernable fat-to-muscle ratio. It's a lack of fitness, of conditioning. He's not golfing every other day like William Howard Taft. He's not jogging like Chubby Bill Clinton. He's not doing "And A-waaaaay We Go!" television shows like Gleason, with all of the physicality entailed in those efforts. The guy looks like he doesn't have any bones, for chrissake.

As I have said, from the outset of my participation in this very curious thread, he is "unhealthy." Anyone who cannot walk a hundred yards, who needs a taxpayer-supplied golf cart to traverse that distance, who cannot speak a paragraph of a speech without sweating like a stevedore (no offense to stevedores), and having to gasp for air like he's ready to keel over, is UNHEALTHY.

There's where the issue of "fitness for office" comes in. It's not just "fat." It's the ability to move, to breathe, to have stamina. He has problems in these regards, and it's an issue. Yes, he is a GOP asshole, and a jerk, who would sooner fire a teacher and cut a pension plan as look at you. And that's certainly enough reason to dislike the twit. That said, his poor physical health would be an issue if he was a progressive Democrat who wanted to make FDR look like a meanie when it came to social programs. The guy is a ticking time bomb. Pretending he isn't is just whistling in the dark.