I just read Fredo's post about Gov. Christie and it made me
mad as hell. Are we such a nation so focused on externals
and so superficial that a fat President would be offensive.
Every night, I look at a prominent newscaster and marvel that
he is so thin that he looks as though he has no shoulders.

This is not sour grapes. I just lost thirty pounds and it
and it was a painful process. I have a lot more energy and
am enjoying a new wardrobe but I look about ten years older.
I am the same person fat or thin. I have always said that
it is the inner you that is really important. Do you stop
loving someone because they are no longer attractive? Are
we putting our children in toddler beauty pageants and torturing them because we are so ego driven?

I grew up in a Southern culture that placed great value on
beauty and all the avenues to it. My great grandmother was
a beautiful woman and she imparted all the processes to us.
We grew up with egg white masks, protection from the sun and
sage tea rinses for our hair. You had an obligation to look
your best at all times. Did that make the inside person any
better? Of course not.

The important values such as kindness, compassion, morality,
loyalty, intelligence and common sense and a sense of humor
have fallen by the wayside. Now it is all glamour, glitz
and glibness.

I was so proud of America for electing President Obama and
I thought we were making progress. Now the powers that be
want to discriminate against fat. Do they not realize that
sometimes there is a genetic and glandular predisposition to
over weight?