Report: Obama’s Slim Build Could Turn Off America’s Portly Voters
by FOXNews.com
Sunday, August 3, 2008
Forget arrogance, Barack Obama is just too skinny to be president.
That’s the assertion put forth in an article by The Wall Street Journal, which reported Friday that the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee may be turning off voters by refusing to chow down at every pit stop on the campaign trail. The newspaper notes that 66 percent of the voting-age population is overweight — while 32 percent fits the definition of obese — and that could be hurting Obama.
“He’s too new … and he needs to put some meat on his bones,” Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who said she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary, told the Journal.
While rival John McCain and his doctors insist the Republican candidate is healthy despite Vietnan prisoner-of-war wounds that limit his mobility to this day, Obama is a lean, mean, fighting machine, according to his doctor.
In a report on his physical health, Chicago physician David Scheiner noted that the senator works out regularly and has “no excess body fat.”
Others in the medical field told the newspaper that they have eyeballed the 6' 1.5? tall senator, and he looks to weigh about 10 pounds less than the average 190 pounds American man of his height weigh.
McCain’s campaign has already used the senator’s healthy living against him, linking his “celebrity” to his diet.
“Only celebrities like Barack Obama go to the gym three times a day, demand ‘MET-RX chocolate roasted-peanut protein bars and bottles of a hard-to-find organic brew — Black Forest Berry Honest Tea’ and worry about the price of arugula,” McCain campaign manager Rick Davis wrote in a memo to interested parties earlier this week.
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