Front page of the Washington Post today. Page A01.
Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials. He’s not in the White House yet, but gone are the hours he once spent reading novels, watching television and obsessing over the daily transactions of Chicago’s sports teams. He eats out only once every few weeks. He visits friends rarely, if at all.
But one habit endures: Obama has gone to the gym, for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row. He always has treated exercise less as recreation than requirement, but his devotion has intensified during the past few months. Between workouts during his Hawaii vacation this week, he was photographed looking like the paradigm of a new kind of presidential fitness, one geared less toward preventing heart attacks than winning swimsuit competitions. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.
Remember how President Bush’s exercise regimen was derided as ridiculous and a waste of time? Yeah. The times, they are a’hypocritically-changin’.
I can’t say for sure that the reporter who wrote this needed a cigarette and some Kleenex after he was done, but I wouldn’t bet against it. I wonder if “filing a report on Obama” is going to become a new euphemism around the MSM.
Keith Olbermann: Hey, Chrissy. Haven’t seen you for like two hours. You okay?
Chris Matthews: Yeah. Fine. I’ve just been “filing a report on Obama” so much lately that it’s hard to walk.
Keith Olbermann: I use Eucerin
Chris Matthews: Hey, thanks!
Tags: Chris Matthews, Keith Olbermann, Media Bias, President Barack Obama, Washington Post
These people are very ill!
I know this doesn’t play into the theme, but I didn’t want this little gem to pass un-noticed:
“Once, on July 17, Obama visited a gym three times within 16 hours. Other days — often before primary election nights — he flew in half a dozen friends to play a few hours of pickup basketball.”
So this is the guy that is going to make the oceans recede? I guess he’s buying enough carbon credits to cover flying in his friends for a quick game of b-ball?
@Cheesestick -
That’s about typical of him, from what I’ve seen. I’m not entirely sure that he’s ever really grown up.