Suddenly, Exercise is “Hip” Again

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Andrew Councill for The New York Times
President Bush jogged on Wednesday at the White House with two veterans who lost legs while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. To the president’s left was Sgt. Neil Duncan; to his right was Specialist Max Ramsey. Both men first met Mr. Bush last year at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center.

3 years ago, when I was in my blogging infancy, I posted on Jonathan Chait’s bizarre criticism of President Bush for exercising “too much”, supposedly bordering upon “the creepy”. Michelle Malkin mentions it in her recent column, along with others who also criticized Bush for being (physically) fit for command. She also compares this with the favorable response- bordering upon “the creepy”- from mainstream journalists regarding how much Obama loves to exercise.

On Christmas Day, the Washington Post delivered a front-page paean to Barack Obama’s workout habits. The 1,233-word ode to O’s physical fitness read more like a Harlequin romance novel than an A-1 news article.

Sighed smitten reporter Eli Zaslow, “The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games.” Drool cup to the newsroom, stat.

Zaslow imparted us with vital information about buff Bam’s regimen: “Obama has gone to the gym for about 90 minutes a day, for at least 48 days in a row.” The Washington Post enlightened us with more gushing commentary from Obama friends and associates, who explain how, as the subtitle of Zaslow’s opus put it, “Gym Workouts Help Obama Carry the Weight of His Position.”

For adoring journalists, you see, Obama’s workout fanaticism demonstrates the discipline and balance in his life. Apparently, what’s good for Obama’s glistening pecs is good for the country. Zaslow quoted Obama Chicago crony Marty Nesbitt, who offered this diagnosis: “He doesn’t think of it as something he has to do — it’s his time for himself, a chance for him to reflect. It’s his break. He feels better and more revved up after he gets in his workout.”

And when Obama feels better, the skies will part, the sun will shine (in moderate, environmentally correct, non-global warming-inducing amounts, of course), and peace will reign worldwide!

Too bad the doughy, McDonald’s-chomping, coffee-guzzling members of the White House press corps couldn’t see the merits of White House exercise over the past eight years. After giggling about his out-of-shape colleagues in the media, Zaslow mentioned in passing that President George W. Bush shares Obama’s commitment to health. What he failed to acknowledge is that the same reporters who so greatly admire Obama’s lithe figure derided Bush for his training schedule.

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Then say it with me, with a straight face: There is…no….media…bias.

Buwahahahahaha!!!!!

Opposition to President Bush has ever been about the scarlett letter “R” next to his name….even when he carries out policies that might be considered a liberal’s dream. Reality check:

what happens to the left when Obama doesn’t begin war crimes proceedings against President Bush and key aides? What will they do when Obama refuses to overturn what the left claimed was “domestic spying” with warrantless wiretaps? When Obama ramps up troop levels in Afghanistan and manages Bush’s withdrawal plan for Iraq will the lefties feel betrayed?

When Dems took control of Congress in 2006 and failed to deliver on their promise to end the Iraq war they blamed it on President Bush’s ability to veto their plans. But soon Dems will control the White House and the Congress. How will the Bush haters handle their disappointment when Obama, Pelosi and Reid tell them that the war isn’t lost and immediate withdrawal isn’t an option?

Scott has suggested that the answer may lie in the ability of reality challenged lefties to simply flip a switch and all of a sudden discover that national security is important if it’s a Democrat in the White House. It reminds me of that old Clinton saying: “it all depends on what the meaning of the word ‘is’ is.”

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First, before I write anything, let me wish you all Merry Christmas. So sorry I didn’t get here sooner (like before the holiday) it’s just been busy busy busy right up until the very last minute.

All of this makes me chuckle considering I am at the gym 3-4 times a week and would be there more if I had the time. That the press would consider this in a negative fashion because I’m conservative while extolling the virtues of good health (although both I and the incoming zero smoke) for the progressives well that’s too funny in itself.

If we have to endure any more pictures of Obama’s skinny half naked body I think I’m going to throw up.

Then Obama goes back and lights up a cigarette.

Let’s see what don’t we know yet, does his poop smell, does he wash his hands after using the bathroom, what size shoe does he wear? These people are sick!

The US media is silly. Very, very silly. But there’s a point to the silliness. The more page space and air time they use up on presidential exercise regimes and first lady clothing choices and first family puppies, the less page space and air time they might have to fill with, you know, substance. Advertisers don’t like substance. It’s a buzz kill.

i personally think a guy who has a great body due to the work he does is far more attractive than one who has to visit the gym to get it. to me it shows that the guy who gets it through his job is actually working. not to belittle those who do sit behind a desk and have to visit the gym, but it goes back to cave man days or something. give me a guy witha great bod, in a pair of worn out jean and work boots and that is a sexy guy. obama does not a thing for me, and who gives a shit if he or bush are fit or not. being fit is better, but why is it ok for obama and not bush? uhh, cause obama is the one. wonder if he will lighten up the taxes and shit on the tobacco companies?

Loofah the Sisters:

Absolutely nobody cares what you think makes a guy seem sexy–not even your boyfriend or husband, assuming you could find one, cares. Nobody cares whether Obama turns you on. Nobody cares if you think like a caveman. Also: nobody except you wingers calls Obama “the One,” and it seems to me like a nice bit of projection. Finally: your last sentence makes no sense in our language.

DumdAmerican,

Nobody cares what you think either dummy. I much prefer Luva’s opinion than your usual stupidities. And your pseudo stinks. A typical leftist pseudo. Just as bad as the name “Barack Hussein Obama” for a POTUS; one could think that this is an Islam country.

Oupst… I meant to post my last comment on this thread. Sorry for the duplicata.

Hey, Dumb American, watch how your troops react to Obama and Bush:

Barack Hussein Obama Visits Marines on Christmas; Met With Silence
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=6H2h4p1P430

And now watch the difference when Bush visits them:

Woah! US Troops in Iraq Give Bush a Tremendous Sendoff!
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=j6epBwrGNhs

Dumb Mike wrote: “Also: nobody except you wingers calls Obama “the One,” and it seems to me like a nice bit of projection.”

As the country listened to an arrogant Obama tell us for over a year that he was the one we were waiting for his sycophants did chime in calling him “the one” as well as other messianic terms. I think Farrakan even called him the Messiah. I doubt one could consider Louie, Oprah, Matthews with the tingling leg, etc. members of the right.

Perhaps all their fawning embarrassed even them, now they are attempting to dial it down and are associating him with mere humans, even that’s quite a stretch being as though Obama’s record is extremely thin.

“No more talk of him being The One (Oprah), or a Jedi Knight (George Lucas), or a “Lightworker” (the San Francisco Chronicle), or a “quantum leap in American consciousness” (Deepak Chopra). Instead we have more humble and circumspect conversation about the man. Now he’s merely Abraham Lincoln and FDR and Martin Luther King, combined.”

http://theweeklyreview.blogspot.com/obama-not-messiah-now-you-tell-me.html

The media promoted this nonsense just like they ignored or chastised President Bush for the same types of events they now are in awe of when reporting on Obama. It’s like looking through Saran Wrap. Only idiots couldn’t see it, example comment #6.

Workouts must be free:

Earlier, the president-elect made his daily visit to Marine Corps Base Hawaii for a workout and a short visit with troops and others waiting outside afterward.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-obama-vacationdec29,0,1461760.story

The irony of this guy’s post is amazing. “Mike’s Dumbmerica” goes off about how “no one cares” what someone else thinks, their perspective, their opinion, whatever, but the irony is I didn’t make it to the end of his post to see what he cares about? I fear he’s exhibiting the growing frustration among Obama worshipers that The One is turning out to be not only sizzle sans steak, but GWBpt deux.

Iraq: stay as long as Petraeus says
Pakistan: same as Bush
Iran: same as Bush, but more naive
Palestine: backed Hamas/backed the wrong horse
Afghanistan: same as Bush
FISA spying on Americans: same as Bush
Closing Gitmo: same as Bush/no place to put the bad guys & no country wants em
impeach Bush/Cheney….not even gonna talk about it anymore let alone investigate as promised
torture: Yeah, we’ll see how that goes if Osama is captured and won’t talk
tax the wealthiest 5%? Probably not gonna happen during recession based on slow investment
triple capital gains tax? Probably not gonna happen during recession based on slow investment
gay marriage? Opposes it!!!!

I can’t find a single issue where Obama isn’t close to GWBpt deux

For all the Oooo! and ahhhing over Senator Obama, and for all the promises of CHANGE, I’m not seeing any other than the letter R to the letter D. Seems that’s all people cared about: partisanship not patriotism. Now those same people who bought the BS about CHANGE have to find excuses for accepting more of the same ole for the only CHANGE is Obama’s policies and positions. Mike’s Dumbmerica needs some cheese w his wine.

I also am getting tired of the inconsequential minutia and adulation. Personally I think it is a coverup for the lack of information on his school records and writings, his law practice clients, the Soetoro marriage and adoption records and on and on. He was born outside the country and surrounded by Marxists during his formative years while the rest of us were learning the Star Spangled Banner, the Pledge of Allegiance and the History of America. For days on end we heard about President Bush’s DUI and Rather’s allegations regarding the National Guard. But we get no answers when we ask serious questions regarding who Hussein really is.

“The chosen one”, “The Messiah”, “The Magic Negro”, all terms coined by left wing democrats. Conservatives use the terms as the joke they are, and to prove how stupid the left wing democrats are. How high will suicides climb when the left figures out GWB is gone and they’re still crazy. There is no effective treatment for BDS and no legal cure in pill form for stupid. The Mexican drug gangs have murdered over 5,000 people in 2008 in a drive to be in charge of drug delivery to democrats in 2009. Even the drug dealers knows that reality is not something a democrat can handle without a shot of something stronger than what is available legally in the U.S.
With the current murder rate of the unborn, the born and breathing following Hussien O’s born alive law, and the increased drug related deaths there should be a rapid decrease in the U.S. population (democrats anyway).

Mike’sDumbmerica is just DW, aka DW5000, aka Dim Wit and/or Dead Weight sneaking thru the spam filters again. Amazing that someone who hates everyone here with such passion, contributes nothing to the forum… and perhaps the planet in general… tries with regularity to get thru merely to share his hate.

He’s like the old guy neighbor the kids love to taunt.

Enjoy your cat/mouse with him since you responded to him on this thread, and another. For I shall be making sure he continues to be emptied with the other trash in the spam filter again. Life is to short too waste on such scum.

“He doesn’t think of it as something he has to do — it’s his time for himself, a chance for him to reflect. It’s his break. He feels better and more revved up after he gets in his workout.”

Each work-out gets a little bit more coke out of his system.

As for him being Bush-lite, I’ll believe it when I see it. He has changed his positions on everything so many times who knows. I would be glad if he was but am afraid he will put through extreme left ideas.