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re: Who were the most physically fit presidents?
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:19 pm to TigerintheNO
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:19 pm to TigerintheNO
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fighter pilot
Flew scout bombers.
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Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:21 pm to GRTiger
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W worked on oil crews and was a drunk. He fought.
‘Worked’
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:26 pm to Kafka
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And got the shite knocked out of him by Jim Thorpe
Fair statement.
But who did not get the sh*t knocked out of them by Jim Thorpe?
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:26 pm to OldManRiver
Love him or hate him, one of the coolest stories I’ve ever heard is as he’s in the locker room before throwing out that pitch in Yankee Stadium, Jeter looks back at the most powerful man in the world and tells him dead seriously “whatever you do, don’t short hop it.”
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:34 pm to UndercoverBryologist
Washington was said to be the best horseman in Virginia. And given the aristocratic hunting culture in Tidewater Virginia at the time, that was saying something.
TR was a legit badass by sheer force of will. He once headed a posse to capture an outlaw in the middle of a Dakota blizzard. He faced down a war party of Sioux braves who were off the reservation looking to raise a little hell. After his presidency he was on a small party to explore an uncharted river in the Amazon and should have died half a dozen times...but didn’t. Though the experience ruined his health and undoubtedly shortened his life.
TR was a legit badass by sheer force of will. He once headed a posse to capture an outlaw in the middle of a Dakota blizzard. He faced down a war party of Sioux braves who were off the reservation looking to raise a little hell. After his presidency he was on a small party to explore an uncharted river in the Amazon and should have died half a dozen times...but didn’t. Though the experience ruined his health and undoubtedly shortened his life.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:35 pm to UndercoverBryologist
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Which Vice-President was most likely a crazy person? John C. Calhoun
Needs a spinoff...cackling Kamala islikely up there
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:37 pm to cypresstiger
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You didn’t read any of those bios past his childhood then.
Yrah, I read the parts where he obsessively planted favorable news stories about himself. There's no doubt that a great deal of what you think you know about Teddy came from his lifelong self-mythologizing.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:38 pm to IceTiger
quote:she's a lot of things... but crazy she is not
cackling Kamala islikely up there
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:39 pm to WaydownSouth
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Obama was actually probably one of the more fit presidents. Not necessarily strong, but baw was in good shape
Ghey men usually stay slender.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:46 pm to OMLandshark
Teddy was a fat frick.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:48 pm to The Spleen
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Barack Obama seemed in decent shape despite being a smoker
I completely forgot he smoked cigarettes
Posted on 4/3/21 at 6:55 pm to Kafka
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Theodore Roosevelt trained the same type of old style Judo & Jiu-Jitsu
I didn't realize Jiu-Jitsu was around back then, or maybe it is just Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu that's new?
Posted on 4/3/21 at 7:00 pm to Obtuse1
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Not sure why it pains people so much to give him his fitness due it isn't like there are plenty of really fit people that are stupid and plenty of horribly out of shape ones that are great leade
There's been about 4,000 posts in this thread saying Obama is fit
Posted on 4/3/21 at 7:11 pm to shinerfan
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Yrah, I read the parts where he obsessively planted favorable news stories about himself. There's no doubt that a great deal of what you think you know about Teddy came from his lifelong self-mythologizing.
As famous a figure he was during his own lifetime, to believe half of those stories are fake or exaggerated is either willfully ignorant, or downright stupid.
He was probably the first president to be covered by the media in any significant way. If Twitter had existed in his time, he probably would have been as famous/infamous for his words as Trump has become.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 7:26 pm to Kafka
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Abraham Lincoln, who grew up on the frontier splitting rails, plowing fields, and doing all the things that frontiersmen do.
Even in his own day, Lincoln’s strength was legendary.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 7:31 pm to UndercoverBryologist
That is one category Barrack Obama would be at the top of.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 7:32 pm to Cowboyfan89
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As famous a figure he was during his own lifetime, to believe half of those stories are fake or exaggerated is either willfully ignorant, or downright stupid.
His cousin Franklin was a pretty famous figure in his own right who managed to "fake or exaggerate" his ability to walk.
Posted on 4/3/21 at 7:54 pm to shinerfan
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His cousin Franklin was a pretty famous figure in his own right who managed to "fake or exaggerate" his ability to walk.
Franklin also wasn't literally galloping all over the country side. He was actively trying to hide it, and had the Secret Service destroying photographs that showed him in a wheelchair.
Theodore had a lot of adversaries, yet you don't see many accounts from them claiming TR made up or exaggerated aspects of his life. If he had, they would have undoubtedly used that to smear his name. And Roosevelt's reputation and image were very important to him. He believed actions spoke louder than words ("speak softly and carry a big stick").
Posted on 4/3/21 at 8:09 pm to Obtuse1
quote:He wasn't as fit as W or what Clinton eventually got to. He was a soft middle aged man who engaged in occasional light exercise. Nothing terrible, but nothing anyone who is fit would consider fit.
He was almost certainly more fit than any president in the last 50 years while in office
Posted on 4/3/21 at 8:11 pm to Cowboyfan89
quote:Of you think things weren't exaggerated youre thebwillfully ignorant. They could put out nearly anything about what someone did in relative private. There were no movie cameras following hm around d constantly.
As famous a figure he was during his own lifetime, to believe half of those stories are fake or exaggerated is either willfully ignorant, or downright stupid
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