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Clinton: 'I was a fat band boy'
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Posted on 08/05/2005 1:37:02 PM PDT by Millee

Former President Bill Clinton said his weight problem and brush with death are the catalysts behind his foundation's initiative of tackling childhood obesity.

Once famous for his love of fast food, Clinton told CNN's Dr. Sanjay Gupta that bad health habits since childhood led to his September 2004 quadruple bypass surgery. That operation, he said, opened his eyes to a larger issue, and he turned his attention to the problem of overweight American children.

"The brush with death I had maybe had the biggest impact of all," Clinton recalled. "I realized that one more time I've been given another chance, and I wanted to make the most of it."

Clinton, who admits "I was the fat band boy," said he knows what unhealthy eating habits can do to a young body.

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I'm only posting this because I can't wait to see what y'all do with the headline. :-)
1 posted on 08/05/2005 1:37:02 PM PDT by Millee
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To: Millee

Were all "Dems" beat up as kids...? Seems that way...


2 posted on 08/05/2005 1:38:29 PM PDT by dakine
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To: Millee

Was?


3 posted on 08/05/2005 1:38:48 PM PDT by b4its2late (If at first you don't succeed, redefine success.)
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To: Millee

4 posted on 08/05/2005 1:38:57 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: Millee

"Clinton, who admits "I was the fat band boy," said he knows what unhealthy eating habits can do to a young body."

Still is a fat band boy, the band is all girl.


5 posted on 08/05/2005 1:40:09 PM PDT by Just mythoughts
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To: dakine

Were, or should have been.


6 posted on 08/05/2005 1:40:28 PM PDT by SoDak
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To: Millee

He looked healthier when he was tubby.....

7 posted on 08/05/2005 1:40:32 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: Millee

Guaranteed, he used this line on women. Like Otter and "Fawn Leibowitz" in Animal House.


8 posted on 08/05/2005 1:40:59 PM PDT by james500
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To: bitt

(Tears rolling down face..) That is the funniest/sad thing I've ever seen!


9 posted on 08/05/2005 1:41:10 PM PDT by Millee (Earth First! We'll log the other planets later!)
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To: bitt
Dnag Nab'it, bitt!!!!

That there, er, uhhhh....moving picture almost done made muh bladder go 'n bust isself!!

10 posted on 08/05/2005 1:42:52 PM PDT by ExcursionGuy84 ("I will Declare the Beauty of The LORD.")
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To: Millee
From bando to "schmucko"...
11 posted on 08/05/2005 1:43:03 PM PDT by Physicist
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To: Millee

Well I was a skinny band boy...........so there!


12 posted on 08/05/2005 1:43:10 PM PDT by AxelPaulsenJr (Pray Daily For Our Troops and President Bush)
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To: Millee

He was all about Quarter Pounders w/ Cheese.

Didn't he used to visit McD's every now and then to suprise people?


13 posted on 08/05/2005 1:43:11 PM PDT by BookaT (My cat's breath smells like cat food!)
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To: bitt

That is...both disturbing and strangely mesmerizing.


14 posted on 08/05/2005 1:43:33 PM PDT by RosieCotton (Literature is a luxury; fiction is a necessity. - G.K. Chesterton)
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To: Millee
"I realized that one more time I've been given another chance, and I wanted to make the most of it."

another chance at what? Screwin' in the whorite house?
Wanna make most of it? STFU and fade away you disgracia!

15 posted on 08/05/2005 1:44:21 PM PDT by Leo Carpathian (FReeeePeee!)
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To: Millee

Damned it...which is it...are the evil Republicans starving the nations youth to death, or are the evil Republicans fattening them up for the slaughter???


16 posted on 08/05/2005 1:44:21 PM PDT by E=MC<sup>2</sup> (Are liberals born stupid, or do they have to work at it???)
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To: bitt

I saw him on Fox News yesterday. He was at a ceremony of some sort, can't remember what.

He was standing still when the camera turned to him, and I kid you not, I thought it was a full-sized cardboard cutout picture of Clinton, not the real thing. His color was gray and he looked terrible.

Anyone else see this?


17 posted on 08/05/2005 1:44:37 PM PDT by webstersII
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To: Millee

> his foundation's initiative of tackling childhood obesity.

He's been shocked at all the chubby interns applying for
jobs at the "library".


18 posted on 08/05/2005 1:45:44 PM PDT by Boundless
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To: Millee

19 posted on 08/05/2005 1:46:12 PM PDT by cripplecreek (If you must obey your party, may your chains rest lightly upon your shoulders.)
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To: Millee
...but, I didn't inhale.

20 posted on 08/05/2005 1:46:20 PM PDT by evets (4,151)
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