Posted on 02/06/2013 1:14:48 PM PST by SMGFan
. Chris Christie lashed out Wednesday at a former White House doctor who said she worries about the governor dying in office because he is so heavy, telling her to "shut up."
Dr. Connie Mariano, who served as White House physician from 1992 to 2001, told CNN she'd like to see Christie run for president in 2016 but that he needs to lose weight. She said she worries he could have a heart attack or stroke.
"I'm worried about this man dying in office," the doctor, who has a practice in Scottsdale, Ariz., told the network.
During a visit Wednesday to a shore town devastated by Superstorm Sandy, Christie was asked about the doctor's comments.
Unless Mariano gives him a physical exam and learns his family history, "she should shut up," the governor said.
(Excerpt) Read more at philly.com ...
Don’t be so irrational. There are such things as risk factors. Christie may not die young, but he damn well better be paying more for insurance.
You never can tell. Who needs statistics or common sense? Maybe Christie’ll live forever!
Probably had “Imagine” on your mind!! :>)
Yet, we are not allowed to know a single thing about Ubama.
True.
A friend’s wife had a quadruple bypass after giving birth at the age of 31. Things just happen, 16 year-old high school athletes drop dead on the court.
But Christie is courting disaster and he knows it.
I did...whats left of it....
“Dr. Connie Mariano, who served as White House physician from 1992 to 2001”.
What a coincidence. Isn’t that the same time Clinton was in White House training for his 2004 quadruple bypass? No “advice” was given to the press back then, huh?
It’s NOT concern. Can you imagine how dems would feel if we said to them, “Quit your lying filthy ways you morally bankrupt loser’.... Really ALL dems care about is the body... Dems are doing it with underage prostitutes, lying about their agendas, robbing the country of years of built-up wealth ... BUT the little creeps exercise and ‘eat right’...so they think they’re acceptable.
So what? It’s his life; let him do with it what he wants. Did you read the post about Letterman’s by-pass operation? Wow! I had completely forgotten about that. Meanwhile, John Goodman is apparently as healthy as a horse!
How life in the White House killed Dr. Connie’s marriage
In her nine years at the White House — from the last year of President Bush to eight years of President Bill Clinton — she witnessed the dedication of other Filipinos on the staff and their devotion to their bosses: Master Chiefs Joe Fama, Lito Bautista and Fred Sanchez who worked as personal valets to the presidents and their families. They were, she says, her lifeline to surviving the stressful environment of the presidential residence.
“I could not have survived those years without the help of many Filipinos in the White House, especially several valets of the President, who are Pinoys. Many times, I got the inside info on the president’s schedules and plans from the Pinoy valets even before the security men did,” she writes.
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Dr. Connie found herself a crucial character in the Monica Lewinsky scandal. She drew blood sample from Clinton to match it with DNA on Lewinsky’s dress. She writes of the “tall slender long-haired beauties” – or POTUS baits — who occasionally paraded in front of Clinton.
Dr. Connie also cared for Virginia Kelley, President Clinton’s mother, before she died of cancer; treated First Lady Hillary Clinton for a blood clot; stitched First Lady Barbara Bush’s arm after a fall; and gave a Heimlich Maneuver to a White House guest during a holiday gathering.
As Clinton’s term drew to a close, Dr. Connie mulled the next stage in her career. Her thoughts are contained in a journal to her son Jason, where she writes: “Mommy is gone on another trip this week. The house is dark and sad. When she is away, it is as though she is dead…”
“My hands shaking I closed the notebook, I felt as though I have been stabbed in the chest. I have been dead to my family for too long, to my two little boys, and to my husband. My decision has been made then: It was time to leave the military at the end of my tour with Clinton.”
The book turns reflective when Dr. Connie looks back at how she became so wrapped up in the care of the presidential families she had forgotten her own. “I have been missing in action for nine years to take care of the First Family. Would my real family need me when I finally come home to stay?” she writes.
Her marriage “died,” Dr. Connie confesses. “I didn’t know how to be a wife. I also grew to become another person from the one Richard married eight years after we met in high school. Like many couples who separate, we found that we simply have grown apart, not together.” Her former husband, Richard Stevens, was a lawyer. They have two sons, Jason and Andrew.
In 2001, she retired from the Navy to join the Mayo Clinic in Scottsdale, Arizona. She founded the Center for Executive Medicine in 2005. It is a presidential-like practice that provides care to about 350 CEOs around the world. She is married to her former patient at the Mayo Clinic, John Weber, who is CEO and president of Remy International.
When John proposed marriage, Dr. Connie told him, “Don’t be ridiculous! I’m your doctor!” He said he’ll get another doctor, to which she shot back: “You’ll never find a better doctor.”
http://thefilam.net/archives/2740
Gov. KrispyKreme ought to just jump on the scales (maybe in a stockyard), have someone announce the results, then bellow “There! You happy now!!!?”
It would end all the speculation.
She’s commenting on a public figure.
John Goodman is John Candy waiting to happen.
I went to the Doc in December 2008. They put me on the treadmill after which they sent me to a hospital sixty miles away for an angiogram. They said they would simply use stents if needed. Fifteen minutes into that procedure they stopped and said I needed a quintuple bypass.(January 1009)
Now only four years later there are all kinds of procedures to determine where blockages are and how to fix many of them remotely with the DaVinci robot and other devices.
Christie most certainly has already had many of those tests on a regular basis. He's still a fat asshole though.
Gov Christie thinks the only lard in NJ is in old teacher’s pensions. Rutgers pays over a million bucks plus bonuses to the coach of the women’s basketball team who loses a lot more than she wins against top competition. She is the highest paid state employee.
Christie isn’t just fat, he’s morbidly obese. And his discussion of his supposed battle with his weight seems self deluding. He makes it sound like his weight goes up and down, but the guy is hundreds of pounds overweight. He really should have the foresight to do something serious about it. The guy has a problem if he can’t see that.
She took him with her when she went to speak at the Reagan Library. Since then, he’s spent a good chunk of his money shuttling wounded vets around the country on his airplane.
He even got Medal of Honor recipient Sammie Davis to come speak with us and personally funded a number of his school outreach trips (travel, hotel, etc.).
They’re very committed people and people who think she’s a liberal just because she “weighed in” on Christie’s girth are missing the big picture.
Goodman looks lately like he’s lost a lot of weight (what alliteration!). We just don’t know when our time is up. The great John Candy had lost a father and a brother at a very young age. It made him - unfortunately - very fatalistic. Some of this is genetic.
Where is the concern for our two fat lesbian supreme court justices?
They sound like wonderful people. She is just doing what many doctors would do and discussed (out loud for millions to hear) her concerns for his health. Christie seems like he has a chip on his shoulder all the time lately.
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