I am going to "weigh in" on the weight issue. :-) I think what she did was plenty of fodder for our cause. John Kerry gets slammed because he's butt ugly, John Edwards gets slammed because he's just too cute and Liz gets slammed because she's overweight. We have so much more to work with than the "looks" issue. I hate it when our forum resembles the DU site.
I agree with you that it would nice to debate the issues and talk about substantive topics. But this is America, baby! Its photo ops and tv appearances! Abe Lincoln would never get elected in America today - he was just too funny looking!