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To: SilentZ who wrote (404234)	8/4/2008 2:13:08 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1583487

Z, > They weren't tributes. Back when they were named, they were supposed to be represent strong, scary figures like "Pirates" or "Devils." Then I guess you would have no trouble renaming any team that has "devil" in the name, given how that might offend some Christians? Oh wait, the rules of PC doesn't apply to Christians ... By the way, "strong scary figures" goes right along with the warrior gridiron thing. Why should that be offensive to anyone? Unless you prefer, for example, renaming the 49ers to the "San Francisco Poodles"? > Americans killed 98% of them. It's offensive. 98% is a clear exaggeration and a red herring. By the way, I hear the white man killed 100% of the Aztecs. Maybe SDSU should rename their mascot. The bottom line is that political correctness has done more to spread INTOLERANCE than anything else. You cannot deny this. Tenchusatsu

To: SilentZ who wrote (404234)	8/4/2008 4:25:44 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1583487

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. elections.foxnews.com