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President-Elect Gym Rat
The Page by Mark Halperin — ... WashPost front takes a closer look at Obama's devotion to exercise, noting he's hit the gym at least 48 days in a row. He once went three times in 16 hours, in July. "That's one of the first things you learn working for him: You better make sure he gets his workout."        ...

Midday Open Thread
Daily Kos — ... Ms. Kennedy, who has asked Gov. David A. Paterson to appoint her to succeed Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton — and who helped oversee the vetting process for Mr. Obama’s possible running mates — is declining to provide a variety of basic data, including companies she has a stake in and whether she has ever been charged with a crime. Amanda at Pandagon is fighting the war on Christmas. Secrets of the presidential-elect pecs. Ok, not so much secrets as working out a lot. Ripple ...

When Reading the News is Like Accidentally Peeking in on a Cybersex Session
The Sundries Shack — Front page of the Washington Post today. Page A01 . Being elected president forces a man to take inventory of his life, so Barack Obama has trimmed his schedule to the bare essentials. He’s not in the White House yet, but gone are the hours he once spent reading novels, watching television and obsessing over the daily transactions of Chicago’s sports teams. He eats out only once every few weeks. He visits friends rarely, if at all. 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 ...

Keeping a Low Profile, Deeply Religious Obama Skips Christmas Services
JammieWearingFool — Why bother to interrupt that daily workout the media slobbers over or, perish the thought, miss another tee time to bother with at least making a symbolic gesture of attending a Christmas Mass? ...

Presidental Fitness
Taegan Goddard's Political Wire — The Washington Post takes a look at President-elect Obama's workout regimen, noting that until yesterday he's been to the gym for 48 days in a row. In July, he once went to the gym three times in 16 hours. ...

Obama as Adonis
Weekly Standard Blog — I'm not saying the Washington Post's Eli Saslow is in love with Barack Obama, but with passages like this: "The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals sculpted during four weightlifting sessions each week, and a body toned by regular treadmill runs and basketball games." Well, maybe just a little.

Tale of two presidential workout fanatics
Michelle Malkin — ... remark. But Matthews only took first honors because Washington Post reporter Eli Saslow waited until Christmas to file his tribute to Obama’s sun-kissed pectorals. Have they no shame? No, they do not. The gushing reminded me of a blog post I did ...

Media sets phasers to "Swoon", plays laser tag
Wizbang — ... notable. But there's a limit to all things. The media love affair has reached the point of self parody. 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. The sun glinted off chiseled pectorals? Yeah, I'll be in my bunk. Harlequin romance novel, Big ...

I know why the caged jihadi sings
Wizbang — ... terrorists are established abroad? Many of the Guantanamo detainees are cleared for release, and others could be sent back to their native countries and held there. But many nations have resisted Bush administration efforts to repatriate the prisoners back home. Both Obama advisers said it's hoped that nations that had initially resisted taking detainees will be more willing to do so after dealing with the new administration. What foreign leader's heart wouldn't melt once the sun glints off Obama's chiseled pectorals? We can also rest assured those repatriated ...

President Pantywaist Throws the First Pitch
Moonbattery — ... His obsequious toadies in the media can slobber all they want about the sun glinting off his "chiseled pectorals," but it doesn't change the reality that like so many of his supporters, Comrade Obama is an effete weenie. We've seen him ...