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- From: jcs@cbnewsh.cb.att.com (john.c.schwebel)
- Subject: Re: Clinton mediocre runner?
- Organization: AT&T
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- Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1992 05:31:55 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec25.053155.6244@cbnewsh.cb.att.com>
- References: <1992Dec24.000943.20651@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> <1992Dec24.083607.26053@mic.ucla.edu>
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- In article <1992Dec24.083607.26053@mic.ucla.edu> rush@eggneb.astro.ucla.edu (Brian Rush ) writes:
- >In article <1992Dec24.000943.20651@gibdo.engr.washington.edu> bobk@gibdo.engr.washington.edu (Bob) writes:
- >>m23364@mwunix (James Meritt) writes:
- >>|| How great do you expect someone to get, who jogs to McDonalds?
- >>
- >>sagnella@a.chem.upenn.edu (Diane E. Sagnella) responds:
- >> ...I'm not impressed with anyone who jogs to McDonalds to
- >> pork out on Curly Fries.He's trying to have it both ways...
-
- Ever seen any proof that a "healthy diet" improves your running
- performance?
-
- I've known plenty of very good runners who were junk food addicts.
- I could say "I'm not impressed by the runners who run the 10
- mile run every Sunday Morning and then pork out on fatty donuts",
- but that's not true, they do it and I am impressed by their
- racing performance.
-
- >.... Clinton is the FIRST president of my
- >lifetime (25 years) who was never a competetive athlete as a youth. Not
- >that that has much to do with the presidency, but I am sure that this
- >group is the first place where people will admit that competetive
- >athletes make better leaders, all else equal.
-
- Don't know about the group, but I, for one, do NOT agree.
- Possibly a competitive athlete might be a better military
- leader, and more inclined to get us into a war,
- but, IMHO, I don't agree they would be better civilian leaders
- of a democracy.
-
- Also, there are plenty of non-competitive athletes in this group.
-
- >A side note - I bet Gore's body fat % is even higher than Clinton's.
-
- So, is body fat correlated with leadership skills?
- Now that sounds like it would be an interesting subject.
-