Bill Clinton loves beans

Here's the short video clip:  

 

Here's the full article on Bill Clinton's diet over the years.  Clinton fell under the sway of low-fat charlatan Dean Ornish, and has since gone vegan.  Let's be clear on one thing: anybody who stops eating processed foods (like the box of donuts referenced in the article) will show health benefits.  It pretty much doesn't matter what system you choose.

And this certainly isn't a valid health criticism, but I will say this: Nobody else could ever emasculate Bill Clinton like the way he has emasculated himself with this vegan bullshit.

Thanks to Allison for the link.

Comments

 John, did you just impugn

Submitted by Nance on Sun, 08/21/2011 - 12:18.

 John, did you just impugn the masculinity of a man who had more women before his 35th birthday (including black girls, heh heh) than you will likely have in your life, and in his dotage probably still -- in the immortal words of Willie Dixon -- eats more chicken any man ever seen?  Thanks for proving that as long as the Big Dog runs, there will be no shortage of fleas willing to hop on and bite him for a spell.  Although this is funny. Really. 

Could not agree more.  He may

Submitted by Amit Mehta on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 21:53.

Could not agree more.  He may feel fine now, but he's gonna suffer serious health problems if he stays vegan long term. 

Could not agree more.  He may

Submitted by Amit Mehta on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 21:53.

Could not agree more.  He may feel fine now, but he's gonna suffer serious health problems if he stays vegan long term. 

Could not agree more.  He may

Submitted by Amit Mehta on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 21:53.

Could not agree more.  He may feel fine now, but he's gonna suffer serious health problems if he stays vegan long term. 

Love your blog, but eh I

Submitted by Monica on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 20:33.

Love your blog, but eh I cringe when meat eating is associated with masculinity and veganism emasculation or femininity, even though I know you're being tongue-in-cheek.  I wish Clinton would realize he doesn't need to go low-fat and vegan to be healthy, but calling him out for emasculating himself because of his veganism perpetuates some weird sexualization of meat that makes me feel uncomfortable. Maybe it's because I'm a chick. Maybe it's because I'm a chick who studied women and gender studies. Don't know. Anyway, my 2cents. See you at the barefoot run in September!

 I normally don't like

Submitted by Dana on Sat, 09/24/2011 - 02:51.

 I normally don't like discussions of emasculation either, because they descend into woman-hating more often than not, but in this case John's probably right, because if Bill doesn't eat right long-term, he'll mess up his hormonal profile.  If nothing else he'll have cardiovascular problems again and what is it that gets Lil' Willie standing at attention?  Vasculature, of course.  This is why men with diabetes wind up "needing" Viagra.And if you want to know the truth, if there were a female equivalent to "emasculation," women suffer it on vegan diets too.  We lose our fertility after a while, and if we get fat on top of that, a lot of us lose our libidos.  We have nothing to gain from pretending to be herbivores either.

Hi Monica -- totally get your

Submitted by John on Mon, 08/22/2011 - 14:44.

Hi Monica -- totally get your point. I agree that there is nothing inherently masculine or feminine about eating healthy or eating paleo. (Or, it's inherently both masculine and feminine). I just think that in our modern context, it's undeniable that a vast majority of vegan / vegetarians are female. I don't pretend to fully know why (though I have a few guesses, of course). But the right approach should have both. Thanks for sharing your thoughts. See you at the run!

 He's emasculating  himself

Submitted by greta on Sat, 08/20/2011 - 16:45.

 He's emasculating  himself because his dietary choices will only diminish his masculinity in terms of his strength and vigor and because he's handing over his mind and body to a false ideology that will drain his power, which speaking from my perspective (male) is of a sexual nature. 

Aren't carnivores the animals

Submitted by Anonymous on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 23:18.

Aren't carnivores the animals with the highest levels of testosterone in the animal kindgom? I think the hyena has the highest levels of any animal if I'm not mistaken.

"And this certainly isn't a

Submitted by Unclepauly on Fri, 08/19/2011 - 19:51.

"And this certainly isn't a valid health criticism, but I will say this: Nobody else could ever emasculate Bill Clinton like the way he has emasculated himself with this vegan bullshit." This.