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Obama’s Workouts Good, Bush’s Workouts Bad
As Michelle Malkin points out in her latest column, we’ve had a president who ran, lifted weights, and mountain biked fanatically for the last eight years. George W. Bush is the healthiest president in American history. While most would see this as a good example to set for the country and an overall net positive, the media of course saw it differently.
Like everything else president Bush did, his exercise routine was described in such glowing terms as “creepy” and “disturbing.” He was routinely derided for wasting time exercising instead of doing real work. When he wrecked on his mountain bike a couple of years ago and had a busted lip and a scraped chin, the media made jokes and liberal bloggers lamented the fact that his injuries weren’t more severe.
Compare that with newly elected Barack Obama. His dedication to physical fitness seems be on par with that of president Bush, but the media’s reaction to it seems to be quite a bit different.
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.
Are you kidding me? I had to laugh out loud when I read that. Any “reporter” who writes something like that is officially a douchebag. So it was lame for president Bush to exercise to maintain a healthy heart, but it’s cool for Obama to exercise so he looks good in a swimsuit? Wow, that’s really something. What the liberal media fails to realize is that even with chiseled pectorals, Obama will likely still have a heart attack before Bush because he’s a smoker.
So for all the intelligence and God like ability that Barack Obama has it’s a shame he’s too stupid and weak willed to stop smoking cigarettes. The media’s reporting on Barack Obama has gone from blatantly in the tank to just plain funny. You can’t take it seriously or pay any attention to it. It’s like one big Saturday Night Live skit that just never ends.
(Photo via Michelle Malkin)
