*'s five-pound weight gain = increased muscle mass

[susu369]

Question for godly Georgie: isn't gluttony a vice?

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/08/11/national/11LETT.html?ex=1061179200&en=e31c453ce2becbe8&ei=5062&partner=GOOGLE

WHITE HOUSE LETTER
If You Can't Take the Heat, Get Out of Crawford
By ELISABETH BUMILLER

CRAWFORD, Tex.
--snip--
It was in the furnacelike air outside the Coffee Station that Mr. Bush gave some hint as to why he might be continuing to run through the heat wave: a five-pound weight gain from last year recorded on his Aug. 2 checkup, which the presidential doctors spun out as "most likely" because of increased muscle mass.

But Mr. Bush patted his stomach and said, as Mr. Powell watched, "When you're 57, you know where it is." Inside, the group dined on cheeseburgers, French fries, fried jalapeño peppers and fried onion rings.

--snip--

Remember all the media focus on Al Gore's weight?

On a serious note, this is such a contrast to the agony our troops are going through without proper food and water in Iraq.

[yella_dawg]

1. Gained five pounds

between the ears. Being pres is so, like, intellectual.

[BiggJawn]

9. 5 pounds of MEAT between his ears, not grey stuff...

Fucking meathead. Hey, Chimpy, ya wanna extra 50 pounds or so? I got plenty you can have!

Maybe that extra 5 pounds is floating around in his arteries?

[NYC]

2. French fries or freedom fries?

But mostly, who cares how much he weighs.

[susu369]

4. I don't care how much he weighs

but I do care about the hypocrisy - which I must say, Ms. Bumiller, aptly suggests.

Good catch: freedom fries.

:-)

[wtmusic]

3. It's hard to balance a Segway

with all those goddam cheeseburgers in your stomach

[Bombtrack]

5. Gore gained 40 pounds

it's a little different

[w4rma]

6. The difference is the spin (n/t)

[grasswire]

7. another non-joke

It's easy to find when you're 57? What does that mean??

[sendero]

10. it means......

... that men tend to put on abdominal weight as they age and their testosterone/estrogen balance leans toward the E.

[susu369]

11. Where is your proof?

All within the same timeframe, I heard Gore gained ten pounds, another spin was thirty, and then we heard forty pounds. It was all spin - which I guess you bought, my friend. Don't believe everything you are told.

[soothsayer]

8. gee, i hope it's not a 5 pound tumor... (eom)