somehow there would be a bomb in the streets where our children played and the reason we can have that confidence is because people were willing to serve this country. and by nothing more than the grace of god, my birthday fell just a few months after the draft ended and so when the draft ended, a few months before my 18th birthday, my vigil of watching those numbers every year ended. and by that time, the military being drawn down, even being an rotc in college didn t mean a lot because they weren t looking for people, certainly not like me. and the fact is i ve always felt that, but for a few month s difference, it could have been me. and i sometimes think, it should have been me. but i ask the question, would it have been me?
streets in which our children played. and the reason that we could have that confidence is because people were willing to serve this country. by nothing more than the grace of god, my birthday fell just a few months after the draft ended. and so when the draft ended, a few months before my 18th birthday, my vigil of watching those numbers every year ended. and by that time, with the military being drawn down, even being an rotc in college didn t mean a lot because they weren t looking for people, certainly not like me. and the fact is, i have always felt that but for a few months difference, it could have been me. i sometimes think it should have been me. but i ask the question.
thank you. i really do. and you not only talk about chris christie s weight, but you talk about the relationship that many people in america have with food, and it is often a very abusive, terrible one. and one that consumes you for most of your life. and you write this. no two stomachs are precisely alike. and i know of where i speak. we re not going to have the full screen. i ve chosen something different. i was born with a fierce, unappeaseable hunger that as a toddler, i threw screaming fits if i didn t get a third hamburger. the thinness i managed in college didn t reflect self-control, it reflected bulimia and laxatives. my borderline obesity in my mid-30s, professionally i was working harder and more reliablely than ever. and my sustained anguish over my waistline and tortured efforts to regulate it bespoke a kind of shallowness and vanity i m not
augur identical behavior on others. someone can be a flawless steward of his or her fizz seek and a wanton lunatic in all else. ever been to hollywood? i think the whole thing is being misunderstood, honestly. about his weight. well, rooney made some other great points in there. well, sure. well, this is this is frank bruni talking more personally about the state of obesity in america and where it comes from. and i really connect with this. he says the thinness that i managed in college didn t reflect laudable self-control. it reflected bulimia and laxatives. my borderline obesity in my mid-30s wasn t a sign of drift, professionally i was working harder and more reliablely than ever. and my sustained anguish over my waistline and tortured efforts to regulate it bespoke a kind of shallowness and vanity that i m not looking for in politicians.
here. the people have begun to make up their mind about next year. this is not early in the campaign. this is a pretty mature part of the 2012 electoral decision making going on right now. people are getting committed one side or the other and probably against the president in many cases. and that decision, the only thing that delayed that, joe, was the iranian hostage crisis and mika knows that too, in the sense there was a national unity that took over for several months there that killed the kennedy campaign and gave carter an opportunity to reengage as our national leader. he didn t really take advantage of it. he went to the rose garden and didn t engage in the campaign effectively or combatively. but really it began then. and i think we re in that period now of decision making. and i think the country has three things they re going to look at. conditions, which work against the president. values which can go both ways. and tone, which i think also works against the president. if