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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGeezus . . . . Christie sounds short of breath.
Seriously. That's not a joke.
LiberalLoner
(9,761 posts)ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)is this the future of the party?
ProudToBeBlueInRhody
(16,399 posts)Huffing and puffing jersey boyz
Auntie Bush
(17,528 posts)librechik
(30,674 posts)I feel sorry for him
Jennicut
(25,415 posts)I hope for his family's sake (especially for his children) he gets his weight down. That is about the nicest thing I can say about him.
XemaSab
(60,212 posts)I hope they have a crash cart handy.
malaise
(268,968 posts)Fugg him.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)went to the ER with it not too long ago
http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/07/christies_hospitalization_afte.html
HipChick
(25,485 posts)My sister was morbidly obese..her knees basically gave way under her weight..
nadinbrzezinski
(154,021 posts)is a disease, really.
HipChick
(25,485 posts)Aerows
(39,961 posts)Anyone?
justabob
(3,069 posts)<snip> President Franklin D. Roosevelt wanted a postwar assistance program to help transition from wartime but he wanted it need based for poor people, not just veterans. The veterans' organizations mobilized support in Congress that rejected FDR's approach and provided benefits only to veterans of military service, including men and women. Ortiz says their efforts "entrenched the VFW and the Legion as the twin pillars of the American veterans' lobby for decades".[4]
Harry W. Colmery, a World War I veteran and the former Republican National Committee chairman, wrote the first draft of the G.I. Bill.[5][6] He reportedly jotted down his ideas on stationery and a napkin at the Mayflower Hotel in Washington, DC.[6] U.S. Senator Ernest McFarland, D-Arizona, was actively involved in the bill's passage and is known, with Warren Atherton, as one of the "fathers of the G.I. Bill." One might then term Edith Nourse Rogers, R-Mass., who helped write and who co-sponsored the legislation, as the "mother of the G.I. Bill".[citation needed] Like Colmery, her contribution to writing and passing this legislation has been obscured by time.[7]
The bill was introduced in the House on January 10, 1944, and in the Senate the following day. Both chambers approved their own versions of the bill.[5]
The bill that President Roosevelt initially proposed was not as far reaching. The G.I. Bill was created to prevent a repetition of the Bonus March of 1932 and a relapse into the Great Depression after World War II ended.[citation needed]</snip>
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G.I._Bill
RagAss
(13,832 posts)the poor fucker who was trying to bring him clean dishes at the early bird buffet tonight.
mythology
(9,527 posts)I can't imagine why people would think somebody who is in that poor of a physical condition would stand up to the rigors of running for either vice president or in 2016/2020 president.
sadbear
(4,340 posts)Very thin air right next to the bay, you know.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)Real "he men" tell doctors to f@#$ off.
nanabugg
(2,198 posts)npk
(3,660 posts)He's fiscally sound when it comes to his breathing.
Guy Whitey Corngood
(26,500 posts)the helicopter.