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Monday, October 3, 2011

26. Corpulence

With respect to Chris Christie's readiness for the presidential race, Frank Bruni, NY Times, in his 10/1/11 op-ed piece, The Round and the Oval, writes: 

"First off, a reality check: the New Jersey governor is not yet in the hunt for the Republican nomination, and may never be. But last week, as Christie speculation reached a fever pitch, attention to his corpulence hit critical mass, with the question changing from whether he was too overweight to win to whether he was so overweight that he didn’t deserve to."


Corpulence: physically bulky
Is this more appropriate than 'obesity?'

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