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Surgeon general post is a big job for a big lady
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Posted on 07/16/2009 12:57:04 PM PDT by traumer

Do you have to be thin to be fit for the role of nation's Top Doc? ================== Since President Obama announced his pick for the nation’s Top Doc, Internet message boards have been atwitter with the observation that Dr. Regina Benjamin is fat.

Critics seem to believe it’s ironic that the nation’s top doctor would be overweight, and it’s led the most nattering of nags to conclude that she should not be picked for prom queen, er, I mean, surgeon general.

You would think the entire population of the blogosphere had suddenly reverted to the seventh grade.

“I refuse to let fat be socially acceptable … The President should have known better and picked a doctor who could kick start the debate on fat not perpetuate it,” commented one reader on a national news site.

Another has some mighty specific requirements for the post: “Rather than select a fat Black woman Obama should have chose a Black woman with a body mass index of 25 or less.”

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KEYWORDS: fat; fatchick; government; obesity; sg
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1 posted on 07/16/2009 12:57:05 PM PDT by traumer
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The Nanny State biting the Nanny State in the (big fat) butt.

Couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of fascists.


2 posted on 07/16/2009 12:59:19 PM PDT by JennysCool (My hypocrisy goes only so far)
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She’s just “big-boned!”


3 posted on 07/16/2009 12:59:41 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
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Surgeon General is probably the most worthless position in the government, which is hard to acheive.


4 posted on 07/16/2009 1:00:20 PM PDT by microgood
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To: traumer

The Media’s lovefest with Obama has turned sour.


5 posted on 07/16/2009 1:00:47 PM PDT by CholeraJoe (I remember black skies and lightening all around me. I remember each flash as time began to blur)
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To: traumer
Internet message boards have been atwitter with the observation that Dr. Regina Benjamin is fat.

No worries, she's a liberal, therefore a hypocrite, and will have no problem with the old "Do as I say, not as I do" mantra.

6 posted on 07/16/2009 1:01:13 PM PDT by Travis T. OJustice (I can spell just fine, thanks, it's my typing that sucks.)
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Hey I know, she could be the next Jenny Craig spokeswoman and we can watch her over the next year losing the weight, culminating in TV commercials of her coyly posing in a bikini.


7 posted on 07/16/2009 1:01:35 PM PDT by T Minus Four (I'm not Jim Thompson but I play him on TV)
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But she’s got a pretty face.


8 posted on 07/16/2009 1:01:52 PM PDT by ladyjane
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Obama should have named her “Lasagna Czar.”


9 posted on 07/16/2009 1:02:10 PM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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Apparently she also wants all medical students forced to learn abortions


10 posted on 07/16/2009 1:02:49 PM PDT by GeronL (UnitedCitizen.Blogspot.Com --------- United Citizens Nation! ------------- Join Today!)
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Her haircut sucks too.

Seriously, she not that fat. I'd do her after eleven beers and a shot.

Of demerol.

11 posted on 07/16/2009 1:04:06 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Fat shmat.

She's a baby killer.

That's the main qualification.

12 posted on 07/16/2009 1:04:26 PM PDT by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American (E)
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The Nanny State biting the Nanny State in the (big fat) butt.

Uh, you're not reading between the lines Jenny. Only hate-filled Repubs/conservatives probably said all those mean things. Kind of like when Joey Biden said it was great the Dem party FINALLY had a "clean, articulate black man" they could rally behind.

13 posted on 07/16/2009 1:05:31 PM PDT by subterfuge (BUILD MORE NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS NOW!!!)
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It would be ironic is a chubby Surgeon General would start a ban on transfats.


14 posted on 07/16/2009 1:06:00 PM PDT by GraceG
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But people need to relate to the surgeon general, and if she can battle her weight on the job, she will do more to curb obesity then all the salads added to the menus of burger joints everywhere.

Some sort of weird voodoo magic the author subscribes to. If she cuts off a finger, will millions also lose one by this magic?

15 posted on 07/16/2009 1:07:05 PM PDT by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Norbit II, the sequel...

Starring Mubarak Hussein Obama...


16 posted on 07/16/2009 1:07:11 PM PDT by Sir Francis Dashwood (Arjuna, why have you have dropped your bow???)
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To: Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

I’m guessing obesity will not be a topic to be discussed under her reign.


17 posted on 07/16/2009 1:07:16 PM PDT by The Sons of Liberty (Restore The Constitution - Remove The Kenyan Usurper! ---- FUBO!)
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Now, now!

She is not overweight, she is just under tall.

Gunner


18 posted on 07/16/2009 1:07:51 PM PDT by weps4ret (Where is John Galt?)
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To: dead
Seriously, she not that fat. I'd do her after eleven beers and a shot.

Of demerol.

Bwah-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha!!!!

Best line of the day!

19 posted on 07/16/2009 1:08:38 PM PDT by brewcrew
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To: TheClintons-STILLAnti-American

I wonder if the Macarthur Foundation knew that before they gave her the genius grant


20 posted on 07/16/2009 1:09:26 PM PDT by MissDairyGoodnessVT (Mac Conchradha - "Skeagh mac en chroe"- Skaghvicencrowe)
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