WSJ wonders if Obama is too skinny

August 1, 1:12 PMProgressive Politics ExaminerJay McDonough

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There must be some serious writers block going on over at the Wall Street Journal.  We have two and a half wars being waged, the economy is in the tank (everyone see those unemployment numbers this morning?), General Motors is barely afloat and the Journal decides to post an article about Barack Obama's body index and infers he shouldn't be trusted because he's a skinny guy in a fat country. 

But in a nation in which 66% of the voting-age population is overweight and 32% is obese, could Sen. Obama's skinniness be a liability? Despite his visits to waffle houses, ice-cream parlors and greasy-spoon diners around the country, his slim physique just might have some Americans wondering whether he is truly like them.

"He's too new ... and he needs to put some meat on his bones," says Diana Koenig, 42, a housewife in Corpus Christi, Texas, who says she voted for Sen. Hillary Clinton in the Democratic primary.

"I won't vote for any beanpole guy," another Clinton supporter wrote last week on a Yahoo politics message board.

November can't come soon enough.