(Er, that last line was supposed to be in ironic ‘did I just say that?’ strikeout, but the HTML did not cooperate. Oh well.)

Concentration camps as a health aid? Um, yeah, that’s a great idea…

Did this guy recently suffer a terrible concussion or has he always been this dumb and prone to hyperbole?

Mythago, in this case, I do not agree, it’s too easy to pretend that everyone that talks in this way, is a bad person, if only, this really is the evil of good people, using excuses to degrade any principle that gets in the way of their attack.

I’ve seen and heard it too many times from too many decent people, including people that cared about me. If it ‘proves’ anything, it is that this ‘obesity crisis’, is an intrinsically degenerate concept, as that is the effect that it has on anyone that buys into it, fat or thin good and not so good alike, it brings out the worst in everyone that dallies with it. It is about time that people started to notice that, whatever their feelings toward fatness and fat people. To dismiss the people that buy into this as assholes will not wash, it suggests that there is a nice version of this, letting nice people off the hook.

So what? “There are other assholes just like him” proves what, in your opinion?

I bet there were some fat people in concentration camps. It can take a while to starve to death. And in fact, starvation doesn’t always mean skinny. There’s that weird belly, the distended abdomen, that some starving people get.

It illustrates the degrading effects of this ‘obesity crisis’ not only on the fat, but on those that choose to take part in it’s cult like idiocies, I’m surprised these often thoughtful, intelligent and good people are more shocked by themselves.

No, thank you. I’m from the US and we’ve got plenty of incredibly stupid politicians of our own without importing them from New Zealand. I do hope that you (collective you, not you personally) are going to deal with him in the manner most appropriate for politicians who make comments that stupid in public: vote the bum out.

“He does understand that people died from having a low level of nutrients and working hard doesn’t he?”

No, I don’t think he does. He missed the point that calories are needed so your body doesn’t doesn’t start to consume itself as well, when you’re burning that much energy. No one’s going to want that used politician, perhaps he’d be better of being recycled as something much less harmful. Maybe a cashier at the Dairy Queen.