Posted on 07/31/2005 4:15:54 PM PDT by Neal_Lineberry
Edited on 07/31/2005 4:20:00 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Earlier this month, when President Bush met with Judge J. Harvie Wilkinson III to interview him for a potential Supreme Court nomination, the conversation turned to exercise. When asked by the president of the United States how often he exercised, Wilkinson impressively responded that he runs 3 1/2 miles a day. Bush urged him to adopt more cross-training. "He warned me of impending doom," Wilkinson told The New York Times.
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...and if President Bush could walk on water, this author would complain he couldn't swim.. nothing new here.. just another nut job neo-hippie.
IBTZ?
Swirling around another quadruple-bipass, no doubt.
I rather doubt it.
Karl - don't get me wrong, I LOVE YAH buddy!!!
Yah, I read that and thought...what a dig...how stupid for the writer to say that!
I've read elsewhere that the warning about "impending doom" was in reference to too much jogging being bad on your knees. The left has since weaved this into a "Bush is an exercise freak" story.
Yeah, like 'journalism'
In a nutshell.
Guess this writer forgot how much President Kennedy was into physical fitness for the masses.
Guess it's only Republican Presidents who aren't supposed to be concerned with health.
What a stupid petty thing to try to use to bash President Bush. LOL!
"The notion of a connection between physical and mental potency is, of course, silly. (Consider all the perfectly toned airheads in Hollywood — or, perhaps, the president himself)."
I can't believe I'm actually posting a reply to this moronic article (nawthing against you, Neal_Lineberry), but I've had a few tonight (already), so here goes...
Sound body. Sound mind. Our President does have a good point. A fit body will handle stress better, excel at problem-solving, and promote self-confidence and self-esteem. I imagine that these are desirable traits that any employer would seek. The author of the article doesn't get it and was probably stuffed in a few lockers in his time.
"Well, I told him I ran three and a half miles a day," Judge Wilkinson recalled in a telephone interview on Wednesday. "And I said my doctor recommends a lot of cross-training, but I said I didn't want to do the elliptical and the bike and the treadmill." The president, Judge Wilkinson said, "took umbrage at that," and told his potential nominee that he should do the cross-training his doctor suggested."He thought I was well on my way to busting my knees," said Judge Wilkinson, 60. "He warned me of impending doom."
What this article demonstrates well is how absolute hatred will lead one to draw erroneous conclusions from the most obvious evidence.
Bush suggests cross training to a candidate during what must have been a light moment in the interview. The author somehow makes a whole story about it that can be pulled apart like a cheap wool sweater. One thread and the whole thing comes apart.
When I interview people for a job, I often will *intentionally* divert to a trivial and unimportant subject to let the person take a break, ease the stress, and convey that there is more to life than simply being an expert at your chosen field. I suspect GW does the same... yet this guy could not figure out such an obvious point?
The hubris of this loon, while showing incredible self-righteousness, is none-the-less expected.
"Impending Doom"?
I hate to be the one that brings the message, but "Impending Doom" seems to be my area of specialty lately.
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