… and another thing

Is this just snark?

July

Never mind that she provides medical care for poor people in rural Alabama. Or that she is so committed that she rebuilt her clinic twice. Or that that she won a MacArthur genius award.

The real question is apparently this: Is President Obama’s nominee for surgeon general too fat for the job?

I have to admit, this is not something I had followed. It seems very mean-spirited.

Here’s the story from Salon.

PHOTO: President Barack Obama, left, congratulates Dr. Regina Benjamin, center, as Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius applauds, following Obama’s announcement of his nomination of Benjamin to the post of Surgeon General, July 13, in the White House Rose Garden in Washington. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

This entry was posted on Monday, July 20th, 2009 at 5:28 pm by Noreen O'Donnell.
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One Response to “Is this just snark?”

David V. July 24th, 2009 at 8:59 pm
That’s nasty. She doesn’t even look that fat to me. It would never have occurred to me to question her nomination on that basis. I’d say her qualifications are far more important than her weight. It seems our society is getting more and more nasty.

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