Is the president losing weight? Critics claim stress of leading the country has left Obama frail

Daily Mail UK ^ | April 11, 2012

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Already engaged in a strenuous re-election battle, spiking gas prices and a fragile economy appear to be taking a toll on Barack Obama.

Obama, 50, was pictured at a campaign event in Florida today looking a little worse for wear, looking extremely tired and frail, his shoulders narrower than usual.

The photo was splashed atop the Drudge Report website with the headline: SHOCK PHOTOS: Obama, Thin And Wasting Away’.

Much like Adele, Jessica Simpson and Miley Cyrus, weight has been a key issue for Obama in the eyes of the media since he became the Democratic presidential nominee in 2008.

Some conservative opponents jokingly asked if the then-Illinois senator was too skinny to be president.

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Pictures at site.

[mkjessup]

Hope springs eternal.

[agere_contra]

We should give him a starved cat to feed up.

[Migraine]

Help is on the way.

[grumpygresh]

National Inquirer should be all over this. We always have to rely on the foreign media now for the truly cutting edge stories.
Didn’t he have some intestinal parasite? Immunocomprimised?

[AppyPappy]

I bet he is smoking again.

[US Navy Vet]

Yep AIDS will do that to ya.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

Well, the Presidency is certainly not affecting the wife’s appetite that’s for sure. If it’s such a burden, perhaps he shouldn’t run for another term. Biden can step up in his place....... snicker...

[AnotherUnixGeek]

No matter who it is, the job really seems to age them. Maybe it’s because men come to the job at the time in life when their hair starts to turn gray and their faces start showing the wrinkles.

[2001convSVT]

Maybe, he should resign.

[prisoner6]

To be fair it’s hard to get enough food when “Jaws” Moosechelle is your tablemate...

[rod1]

We have a winner!

[Tenacious 1]

Opiates cause weight loss too. That would go a long way to also explain this “Constitutional Law Professor's” mental lapse in all things American.

[ZX12R]

Yep AIDS will do that to ya.

I was going to say, a lot of gay people look very sickly.

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[BillyBonebrake]

Ideally he needs to lose another 170 pounds.

[FrankR]

Must me the Nutrasystem, I mean, Wookiesystem diet...not that anyone other than the slobbering media really give a flying fickled finger of fate...

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Still.

[Snickering Hound]

Put the crackpipe down, Barry...

[SMARTY]

“...LEADING the country...”????

Really?