I don't know this guy's sincere or if he just doesn't like Bush to start with, but he gave me an idea.

Jonathan Chait:
The (over)exercise of power
A week ago, 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.

Am I the only person who finds this disturbing?...What I mean is the fact that Bush has an obsession with exercise that borders on the creepy.

Given the importance of his job, it is astonishing how much time Bush has to exercise...Earlier this year, an airplane wandered into restricted Washington air space. Bush...was bicycling. In 2001, a gunman fired shots at the White House. Bush was inside exercising. When planes struck the World Trade Center...that morning he had gone for a long run with a reporter.

Does the leader of the free world need to attain that level of physical achievement?

Bush not only thinks so, he thinks it goes for the rest of us as well. In 2002, he initiated a national fitness campaign.

In 2002, Bush fired Lawrence Lindsey, his overweight economic advisor. Lindsey's main crime was admitting to Congress that the Iraq war might cost $200 billion...But...Bush "complained privately about [Lindsey's] failure to exercise."

Bush's insistence that the entire populace follow his example, and that his staff join him on a Long March — er, Long Run — carries about it the faint whiff of a cult of personality. It also shows how out of touch he is.

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If this writer thinks like the average person it's time to make Pres. Bush an avid anti-smoker so people can see them for what they are: "Disturbing" and "creepy."

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this writer thinks like the average person it's time to make Pres. Bush an avid anti-smoker so people can see them for what they are: "Disturbing" and "creepy."

There already is a high profile anti-smoker holding political office - his name is Michael Bloomberg...Also, I'm sure if Bush were to start attacking smokers -it would only endear him to the antis and their leftist elite media cheerleaders. This is unlikely to happen though since Mrs. Bush is a pack a day smoker.

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Originally posted by NickM_71:
This is unlikely to happen though since Mrs. Bush is a pack a day smoker.

She had better be careful. Maybe one day this will turn into one of those infrequent headlines we see, "Man stabs wife over smoking. Says his physical fitness was being compromised."

Nick, I've known for some time that Laura Bush still smokes though I've never seen a photo of her "doing the deed with the evil weed." But I've never heard an assertion about how much she smokes until you posted "pack a day."

Do you have a source for that? I'd really like to know. Thanks.

Every article on her smoking (although I think they all stem from a single story) says she is a chain smoker.

I've haven't seen anyone say she's a pack a day smoker either, just chain smoker.

BTW, here's a photo of her smoking, but I think it's from her earlier life.

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I remember reading that she had given up smoking, but the twins still smoke.

Maybe since she gave up the habit is why she seems to travel more on her own.

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Originally posted by Bruce:
I remember reading that she had given up smoking, but the twins still smoke.

Maybe since she gave up the habit is why she seems to travel more on her own.

She did quit, but the strain of the 2004 election got her smoking again. That's what all the articles say.

BTW, before she quit smoking she was a real smoker. She was quoted as saying what her interests were as: "I read, I smoke and I admire."

Thanks for the updates & the pic. What a cutie!

Are we sure that's a real pic? Looks a little chunky for Laura. What she should do is reverse the smoking ban in the White House that Hitlery imposed. Probably afraid of the flak.

re: Hillary's smoking ban in the White House, W. was asked about that on the campaign trail prior to the 2000 election. He seemed unaware of it but said his attitude about tobacco use was "Smoke 'em if you've got 'em."

In short, he doesn't drink any more but others can if they want to. He doesn't smoke but others can if they want to. He's a reasonable person. Antis are not.

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Originally posted by ImMadAsHell:
Are we sure that's a real pic? Looks a little chunky for Laura.

I don't know if it's real or not. I assume it's and old pic, not that I know if she was "chunky" back then. LOL