As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases

Washington Post ^ | Dec. 25, 2008 | Eli Saslow

[FocusNexus]

Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials.

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.

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.

On Friday, Obama rushed to the gym before boarding a plane for his 12-day stay in Hawaii. He woke up the next morning on vacation, went to a gym and exited 45 minutes later in a sweat-soaked gray shirt.

Obama still suffers from one vice -- smoking -- although he has worked hard to quit since he started the presidential campaign. He's down from three or four cigarettes each day to what he terms the occasional "slip."

[RipSawyer]

Our first beefcake President...
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I fear there is much more cake than beef.

[Major Matt Mason]

I hear he can don his superhero outfit simply by spinning in place at a high rate of speed.

[Elsiejay]

The organs of the press that were pathologically uninterested in analyzing his past now will slobber over every minute detail of his present and the glorious future they anticipate.

[RipSawyer]

Is he taking ‘roids? :)
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If so they apparently aren’t working, he is about the same height and size that I was at seventeen, the funny thing is nobody carried on about my pecs, instead they called me a beanpole and some said I had a case of the “goneass”.

[Condor51]

'As Duties Weigh Obama Down, His Faith in Fitness Only Increases'

All HAIL Bobby Knight -- The Gym & Bassetball God!

[MAD-AS-HELL]

or maybe he just wants to get away from Michelle. You know how domineering those black women can be!

[Myrddin]

When the going gets tough, Obama goes to the gym...to escape. He did that instead of visiting our troops on his Middle East and European tour.

[Obushma]

The poor bloke is conflicted. Me thinks ol’ el presidente-electo Hussane is secretly battling his conscience for using Acorn to still another election....but that’s just my personal jaded opinion.......

[Myrddin]

But he still smokes cigarettes. All that exercise and still smoking... why bother?

So you can look better in a coffin?

[King Moonracer]

went to a gym and exited 45 minutes later in a sweat-soaked gray shirt.

A quickie at the gym???

[TiberiusClaudius]

he usually worked out with Reggie Love, a personal aide and a former Duke University basketball player,

Speaking of Reggie Love, here are some pictures from when he passed out drunk at a UNC frat house a few years ago...

And if you go to this google image search page, you'll find one that I can not post directly b/c of its OBSCENE CONTENT!!!!

[BenLurkin]

[martin_fierro]

Mainstream Media coverage of The 0ne.

[ABQHispConservative]

Give it a couple of years. I still remember Mark McGuire before the ‘roids.

Maybe Arnold can pump him up.

[supermop]

Noticed that he has time for the gym but couldn't find time to attend a church for Christmas Services.

Suppose he will find time for church during Kwanei (or however you spell this fake black holiday”)?

[RockyMtnMan]

Is that from the Onion? EATING is a required activity to be a classified an EATING disorder.

Exercise (the very definition implies a purge of calories) reduces depression by regulating hormones. If you quit exercising the depression comes back, same can be said of anxiety.

Irritability and guilt come from feeling LAZY and WORTHLESS because you don’t do anything but consume oxygen, soda and chips.

E.D. = B.S.

The editor should consider joining a gym and get a better grasp on cause and effect.

[OldMissileer]

The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.

BARF!!!

The Lamestream press is so in the tank for the Dims, especially Obama, that they now write like a cheap dime store novel.

I expect the TV networks to start doing short spots, advertisements, with videos of Obama looking buff just like the crap now shown in Russia with Putin.

The Dims, and that includes the press, are taking propaganda right out of the Bolshevik playbook and the people of our country are so ill-educated in history (thank you NEA) that they do not even see it.

[marlon]

Hmm he flies in his buddies to play a game of pick-up basketball? Seems like an awefully big carbon footprint for a lousy game of pick-up. What, they couldn't find 5 or so players from his entourage?

Also wonder how much the press is going to carry on about his flying back and forth to Hawaii when he wants to take a vacation. Not at all I'll bet.

[FocusNexus]

“Noticed that he has time for the gym but couldn’t find time to attend a church for Christmas Services”

Exactly.

For those who missed it:

Secluded Obamas miss out on religious services

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2154339/posts

[Double Tap]

Sounds kinda gay...