BOONE, Iowa – Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee is not the tallest fellow in the Republican presidential race.He’s not even the round mound of rebound that he was before he lost more than 100 pounds.
So some of the folks gathered under a tree outside the Boone courthouse on Wednesday smiled when the little fellow started comparing himself to a basketball player.
“I’ve not been spending my time trying to bash other candidates,” Huckabee said. “I believe the best way to win a campaign is to hit the three-point shots from out on the perimeter, not by going under the goal and elbowing somebody or knee-capping them, but rather to be able to play your best game.”
In Boone, as elsewhere, Huckabee got a warm reception with his soft-spoken, amiable style. But pick apart his remarks and there are plenty of pointed jabs for all those “nice, decent people” who are in the crowded Republican field with him.
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A weighty new study released last week suggested that if you can’t make your podgy friends purge, you might have to purge your podgy friends. Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that having a portly pal increased a person’s chances of becoming obese by a whopping 57-percent. That’s right, the weight of your friend Jim matters more than how much weight you lift in the gym.
The most amazing part of the research revealed that having a best friend who became obese increased your risk 171 percent, even if your chum lives hundreds of miles away. Who would have guessed that Twinkies were telepathic?
