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While we're at it, we should make sure to have them publicize which brand of underwear they prefer. Wouldn't want a president who wears abrasive underpants, would we? He might shift uncomfortably at the wrong time during delicate negotiations with Russia and we'd all wind up nuked.


Here's a little anecdote for you:




http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grover_Cleveland#Cancer


I read it for the first time in Secret Lives of the US Presidents, so I'm reasonably sure that story is accurate. The moral of this story, kids, is that overt attention to the health of a Presidential candidate gets you nowhere - Grover Cleveland managed to have extremely dangerous surgery in the middle of his second term without people even noticing, whereas tough-as-nails Zachary Taylor was probably killed by a bad batch of cherries.


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