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Obama After Dark: The Precious Hours Alone (NY Times LOL puff piece alert)
NY Times ^ | July 2, 2016 | Michael D. Shear

Posted on 7/2/2016, 3:32:13 PM by Zakeet

Mr. Obama calls himself a "night guy," and as president, he has come to consider the long, solitary hours after dark as essential as his time in the Oval Office. Almost every night that he is in the White House, Mr. Obama has dinner at 6:30 with his wife and daughters and then withdraws to the Treaty Room, his private office down the hall from his bedroom on the second floor of the White House residence.

There, his closest aides say, he spends four or five hours largely by himself.

He works on speeches. He reads the stack of briefing papers delivered at 8 p.m. by the National Security Council staff secretary. He reads 10 letters from Americans chosen each day by his staff. "How can we allow private citizens to buy automatic weapons? They are weapons of war," Liz O'Connor, a Connecticut middle school teacher, wrote in a letter Mr. Obama read on the night of June 13.

The president also watches ESPN, reads novels or plays Words With Friends on his iPad.

Michelle Obama occasionally pops in, but she goes to bed before the president, who is up so late he barely gets five hours of sleep a night. For Mr. Obama, the time alone has become more important.

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To stay awake, the president does not turn to caffeine. He rarely drinks coffee or tea, and more often has a bottle of water next to him than a soda. His friends say his only snack at night is seven lightly salted almonds.

"Michelle and I would always joke: Not six. Not eight," Mr. Kass said. "Always seven almonds."

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: New York
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To: BenLurkin

The best part is where they say his old lady goes to bed before him. Doesn’t sound like he cares too much about knocking boots, huh?


41 posted on 7/2/2016, 6:26:39 PM by WilliamCooper1
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To: Georgia Girl 2

Precisely. If they would just come out and say that, I would think: “Oh well, at the end of the day he’s just a man like me, and having a few brews and watching the game at least let’s me know he’s human”

But no, NY Times has to put out a North Korean style piece of propaganda. This is about like the PRNK state media putting out a piece saying Kim Jong Un works 25 hours a day.


42 posted on 7/2/2016, 6:28:50 PM by WilliamCooper1
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To: Zakeet
The puffy-est puff-piece I've ever seen.

"Seven almonds." Aw, how cute. Seven, the number of perfection for a perfect God-like devil.

43 posted on 7/2/2016, 6:32:08 PM by HangUpNow
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To: donna
Oh, so now we know the answer to the question:

“Where was 0bama?”

Great connection AND question.

When is your/our question answered? And if not, then WHY NOT??

It's inexplicable insanity this reptile has NEVER been forced to account for HIS whereabouts, HIS responsibility, and HIS lack of response THE night of the Benghazi Slaughter.

44 posted on 7/2/2016, 6:40:44 PM by HangUpNow
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To: Zakeet

he whips out his prayer rug - he has secret meetings with his MB handlers - he confers with his MB around the world on his blackberry that he spent millions of dollars to beat down the security rules for him to have - so he could sceme and plot and get orders without it being on the radar -

Takes time to coordinate all the business of turning the world into the Caliphate, y’know


45 posted on 7/2/2016, 7:36:44 PM by maine-iac7 (A Christian is as a Christian does - "By their works...")
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To: Zakeet
➡️Jonathan Gruber.⬅️

🔴 never forget!*‼️

46 posted on 7/2/2016, 11:49:25 PM by 4Liberty (We SEE Trump tossed every contrived hurdle. Hillary given every absurd mulligan.THAT'S WHY-GO TRUMP!)
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To: notaliberal
Orgy room from Aranjuez:
47 posted on 7/3/2016, 12:22:19 AM by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: Zakeet

Just the President and his boyfriend.


48 posted on 7/3/2016, 12:32:10 AM by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Zakeet
Mr. Obama had spent three hours scrawling in longhand on a yellow legal pad an angry condemnation of Donald J. Trump’s response to the attack in Orlando, Fla., and told his aides they could pick up his rewrite at the White House usher’s office when they came in for work.

LOL!

49 posted on 7/3/2016, 10:31:59 AM by Pinkbell (Liberal tolerance only extends to people they agree with.)
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50 posted on 7/3/2016, 8:48:10 PM by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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To: Zakeet
What Barky really does at night.
51 posted on 7/3/2016, 10:57:55 PM by RightGeek (FUBO and the donkey you rode in on)
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