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« Reply #25 on: August 16, 2009, 10:49:02 PM »
Bubba is as fat in the Modern Age as were going to get.  Huckabee only lost weight so he could run for President, I think.
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« Reply #26 on: February 03, 2011, 03:09:57 PM »
Bumping this up to avoid making a new thread...

I think America's next President could very well be obese. It looks like the GOP will not be able to win in 2012, but in 2016, we'll have a pretty good shot of picking up the White House. One of the leading candidates in 2016 will likely be Chris Christie, assuming he decides to run.
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« Reply #27 on: February 03, 2011, 04:44:25 PM »
We already did.

Taft.
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« Reply #28 on: February 03, 2011, 05:36:07 PM »
If Huckabee is elected president, he'll gain some weight again hahaha
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« Reply #29 on: February 03, 2011, 05:54:32 PM »
It will be Governor Christie Smiley
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« Reply #30 on: February 05, 2011, 09:37:18 PM »

Governor Christie is not obese.  He is just big.
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« Reply #31 on: February 05, 2011, 10:17:46 PM »

He fits a definition of obesity very well. I mean, look at his face.
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« Reply #32 on: February 05, 2011, 10:21:09 PM »
1908 and 1992.
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« Reply #33 on: February 05, 2011, 11:06:02 PM »

Beat me to it, only I was going to post a picture. Oh well, here it is anyway. This photo also incidentally proves that we've elected a president with horrible teeth:
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« Reply #34 on: February 05, 2011, 11:36:01 PM »
Did we have any other obese presidents besides Taft and Clinton?
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« Reply #35 on: February 06, 2011, 12:29:48 AM »
« Edited: February 06, 2011, 12:44:18 AM by Stranger in a strange land »
Quote from: What's Your Deal? on February 05, 2011, 11:36:01 PM
Did we have any other obese presidents besides Taft and Clinton?

Clinton was overweight, but he wasn't obese by any reasonable standard. Taft was the only president to meet the medical definition of obesity.
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« Reply #36 on: February 09, 2011, 01:59:23 PM »
We already have.
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« Reply #37 on: February 13, 2011, 10:23:45 PM »

Dude is way beyond the threshold for obese. I'm just over the line and I'm nowhere near as fat as that larda$$.
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« Reply #38 on: February 21, 2011, 09:27:07 PM »
Sorry for the necro, but I asked someone about this and he said John Adams, Buchanan, Arthur, Cleveland, Harrison, and Mckinley were all obese in addition to Taft and Clinton.

Clinton was, at one point, the 3rd heaviest president ever. (Behind Taft and Cleveland)
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« Reply #39 on: February 22, 2011, 11:09:59 AM »
Oh, J. Adams and Cleveland were obese, now that I realize.
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« Reply #40 on: February 22, 2011, 01:22:49 PM »
You seem to have forgotten Taft.
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« Reply #41 on: March 03, 2011, 10:10:01 AM »
The early GOP party tended to have the mustaches and a little overweight.  We have had bigger GOP presidents back then and bigger GOP Supreme Court justices. But that was the early GOP party which was the more progressive party back during the early stages, I think it is less so now. I could see it happening now, but less so. Forget Doug Christie, he would be old news by then.
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« Reply #42 on: March 05, 2011, 01:37:52 AM »
Did anyone mention Taft?
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« Reply #43 on: March 05, 2011, 02:18:01 AM »

Yup! Taft was mentioned at the front page, I dunno how you missed him! He's HUGE!

But electing someone fatter than Taft? Uh...I doubt that'd happen if ONLY because of the immense likelihood said president would die due to the levels of stress the office holds.
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« Reply #44 on: March 05, 2011, 04:01:32 AM »
In addition to Taft, Cleveland was also obese. He wasn't as fat as Taft, but 5'11" and 250 pounds is definitely obese.
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« Reply #45 on: September 30, 2017, 08:09:58 PM »
Donald Trump

jesus christ lol...
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« Reply #46 on: October 01, 2017, 01:04:57 PM »
We probably will. If an obese person was the best candidate, voters would look past it, especially if the VP is popular. We elected a man named Barack Hussein Obama. Twice. Rule out nothing.
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« Reply #47 on: October 01, 2017, 09:02:24 PM »
why you gotta do the donald like this man
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« Reply #48 on: October 02, 2017, 12:02:59 PM »
Quote from: retromike22 on August 15, 2009, 08:39:54 PM
Here's a map of the top 15 most obese states (over 27.7% of the population)


Yikes! Except for Michigan, those states usually vote Democratic in Presidential elections (and 2020 is unlikely to change that assessment). 

Donald Trump is obese.
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« Reply #49 on: October 05, 2017, 08:53:06 AM »
Bill Clinton is 6'2" and was 246 pounds at one point.  That is obese.
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