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

[MADem]

141. Yes, it is. A President who cannot travel is an ineffective President.

The President must travel to prosecute the nation's agenda around the world. And he has to be able to participate in arrival and departure ceremonies--they are part and parcel of the process. This is a media age--they can't use a crane to haul him up or down on a G8 or state visit. What, should we get him an escalator?

Here's a list of Obama's trips (and he's not the most "travelling" President we've ever had): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_presidential_trips_made_by_Barack_Obama

Even the ancient and lame Pope can manage the stairs on those tarmacs.

We don't elect "veeps." Veeps are what happens if our first choice goes to shit.

I can't believe your arguments! You're addressing everything but the actual issue.

FDR would not have been able to run had the public become aware of--and believed the truth about-- his health--that's why he and his staff made sure that information never saw the light of day. That is not something we, as a nation, should repeat. We got LUCKY with Truman--but the public did not think we did contemporaneously with his elevation to the Presidency. Most people thought we were fucked.

And where, pray tell, did I or anyone else say "Republicans will vote for Obama because Christie is fat?" Stop making stuff up. It's a lame way to (not) argue. That's not the issue nor the subject of this thread. You "won't see that" because it isn't happening, and no one said it was. The man is not on any primary ballots, and this thread is not about him running for office.

This thread is about his unfitness, not what he will or will not do, or what Republican voters will or will not do.