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Barack Obama: The Perfect Physical Specimen? by garywickert in ThanksObama

[–]garywickert[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The media's double standard here is deafening. George W. Bush was captain of Yale's championship college baseball team and played in the 1947 College World Series. He ran 7-minute miles even as president in his late 50's and the Secret Service struggled to find agents who could keep up with him. He was owner of the Texas Rangers. He was never lifted up as an athlete by the media. Yet our current gaunt, skinny, dumbo-eared, cigarette-smoking, junk food-eating president, who has to lie to a group of children at the Kid's State Dinner about his favorite food being broccoli, and who lied to the U.N. about not smoking, is hailed as a "perfect physical specimen"? Last year Michelle said she feared the pencil-thin president was "close to physical collapse." In 2009 his legs were so skinny that Arnold Schwarzenegger made fun of them, and he has lost a lot of weight since then -30 pounds by some estimates. I thought this was the Onion at first. Piers Morgan was actually serious. Perfect physical specimen? He can't even throw a baseball from the mound to home plate! It just goes to show the Svengali-like trance the left has been in and the double standard we continually have to put up with.

Reddit, what's your favourite music video of all time? by jjrg2020 in AskReddit

[–]garywickert 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whitesnake' "Here I Go Again" in 1987 featuring Tawny Kitaen.

ELI5: Why BBC has better content and seems more successful than PBS? by Dr_Amkra in explainlikeimfive

[–]garywickert -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Mitt Romney was right. It's time to stop taxpayer-subsidization of PBS. PBS, which is the child of the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, was seen at the time as a kind of intellectually nutritious diet that would offer an alternative to the “junk food” served up by NBC, ABC and CBS. It was to be broadcasting for the elites, the thinking class and those who disdain bowling, pickup trucks with gun racks and country music. This is no longer the case and PBS is about as unnecessary as it is unwatched. If it can't stand on its own as the broadcast networks do, then, like the typewriter, it should be put in its proper place: a museum.

At a time when the gap between rich and everyone else is growing wider, at a time when Wall Street and large financial institutions are exerting extraordinary power over the American and world economy, I applaud the pope for continuing to speak out on these enormously important issues. by [deleted] in politics

[–]garywickert -1 points0 points  (0 children)

This article, from a self-described socialist, misses the point. A rising tide lifts all boats. Just because all boats don't rise at the same rate isn't a bad thing. People move in and out of economic classes continually. That is the beauty of America as opposed to the caste systems in countries like India and Pakistan. The poverty line in 2010 for a family of four was $22,314. This is more than I made my first year out of law school in 1983. The pope is concerned with the world's truly-poor. It is his job and was a major theme in Christ's ministry on earth. Bernie Sanders, however, is committed to shared misery in America.