كيف يفكر الامريكيون بحثين يشير الاول لعدم انتخاب سمين رئيسا لامريكا وهو نوع من العنصرية المستترة
ويشير الثانى العدم رغبتهم فى تولية ساسه ذوى وجوه طفوليه وهذا عكس ما يحدث عندهم دائما حيث يبهرون بالمظهر عادة
طبعا البحثين يعكسان دور السزاجه ونقص الوعى لدى الامريكى العادى وكيف لا وهم لم يلاحظوا حتى الان اعدم وجود مساواه سياسية بين الاصول العرقية المختلفة
American politics - slim chance if you’re fat
Email this storyPrint this story 5:00AM Saturday March 31, 2007
By Rupert Cornwell
The new Al Gore would go down well with Caesar too. Photo / Reuters
Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar , who said, "Let me have men about me that are fat … Yond’ Cassius has a lean and hungry look," would feel distinctly uneasy were he to survey the United States presidential field - and not just the svelte Barack Obama.
Even if overweight America continues to wolf down junk food with a gusto matched only by the desperation with which it searches for magical weight-loss formulas, in politics slimness is busting out all over.
Take Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas Governor who is making a long-shot bid for the Republican nomination.
Huckabee describes himself as a recovering foodaholic, who once tipped the scales at 136kg and ate so much he became diabetic.
Over the past couple of years, he has lost 54kg. Not surprisingly, health care and fitness are centrepieces of his campaign.
Setting the example on the Democratic side is Bill Richardson, the Governor of New Mexico. The plump and engaging Richardson has already shed 15kg and aims to lose another 5kg, although that will be a tall order because when it comes to over-consumption of junk food and late-night pizzas, nothing beats a presidential campaign.
Even so, such heroic endeavours make sense. Caesar was justifiably alarmed at the lean and treacherous Cass
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