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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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To: Millee

First he was a nerd. Then he was a turd.


41 posted on 08/05/2005 2:11:12 PM PDT by henderson field
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To: bitt
Is that a really recent picture? Because he even looks worse than right after he had his surgery.

Hill-da-Beast is probably planning his death for maximum sympathy advantage timing. Bubba won't see 2009 for sure, unless he pulls a pre-emptive strike on the Beast.

42 posted on 08/05/2005 2:12:31 PM PDT by libs_kma (USA: The land of the Free....Because of the Brave!)
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To: ChadGore

OMG!!!!!! Too funny!!


43 posted on 08/05/2005 2:12:48 PM PDT by Millee (Earth First! We'll log the other planets later!)
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To: Millee

One time, at band camp, I stuck a cigar....


44 posted on 08/05/2005 2:13:23 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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To: bitt

What's with the Tom Cruise picture?


45 posted on 08/05/2005 2:14:44 PM PDT by RightWingAtheist (Creationism is not conservative!)
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To: james500
Guaranteed, he used this line on women. Like Otter and "Fawn Leibowitz" in Animal House.

True, he doesn't seem like one to pass up a good kiln accident.

46 posted on 08/05/2005 2:17:53 PM PDT by Slings and Arrows ("Canada is the answer to a question that nobody bothered to ask." --Stand W)
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To: Millee
Self portrait: `Little Fat Boy in Blue` a retrospective on chubby chasing narrated by Bill Clinton
47 posted on 08/05/2005 2:18:01 PM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: Millee

Oh brother. First his hot fad is AIDS acitivism; now that he's not getting any attention on that it's fat activism.


48 posted on 08/05/2005 2:19:20 PM PDT by July20
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To: ChadGore

if ever there was a need for ritalin that was one who slipped through the "cracks"


49 posted on 08/05/2005 2:21:55 PM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: libs_kma

properties of the pic say 8/5, and he is walking with the doctor/author....


50 posted on 08/05/2005 2:22:26 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: ChadGore

you are quick!

LOL!


51 posted on 08/05/2005 2:22:48 PM PDT by bitt ('We will all soon reap what the ignorant are now sowing.' Victor Davis Hanson)
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To: bitt

all those 8 years and his "doctors" gave him a clean bill of health? Amazing how they were able to save him. anything to stay in the front of the cameras


52 posted on 08/05/2005 2:23:49 PM PDT by newfrpr04
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To: Millee

...and soon realizing that he was getting no band boy promises of sex, drugs, and rock and roll, he decided to embark on the surest way to the promise: He would become President of the United States. Where he could fire and intimidate, at will, those who denied him his boyhood dreams...


53 posted on 08/05/2005 2:26:16 PM PDT by small voice in the wilderness (Quick, act casual. If they sense scorn and ridicule, they'll flee..)
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To: Millee

Maybe Ted Kennedy was his Daddy-- (genetics always triumphs).


54 posted on 08/05/2005 2:26:34 PM PDT by pankot
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To: dakine
Should they be beat up as adults?
55 posted on 08/05/2005 2:28:13 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: james500
Does this mean Hillary was a band camp girl?
56 posted on 08/05/2005 2:29:06 PM PDT by Ukiapah Heep (Shoes for Industry!)
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To: Ukiapah Heep

Nah, violence is over rated, I'd rather scam 'em....


57 posted on 08/05/2005 2:31:52 PM PDT by dakine
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To: ChadGore

Now THAT is funny!


58 posted on 08/05/2005 2:34:39 PM PDT by Calm_Cool_and_Elected (Be nice, I'm new here)
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To: Millee

" You get good bulk, and it tastes good..."

Still reminiscing about Monica, apparently.


59 posted on 08/05/2005 2:35:05 PM PDT by Wild Irish Rogue
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To: advance_copy

i doubt he tattled on people. prolly ran and cried to his girlfriend, who had the school bully quietly beat them up.


60 posted on 08/05/2005 2:40:31 PM PDT by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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