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My brother emails a good point, that today's news is playing up the fact that Barack Obama worked out for 188 minutes yesterday, creating the image of a young and fit candidate (who happens to be running against an old fella). But ever since he ran for office, and through out his administration, President Bush has been lampooned for the fact that he's an obsessive exerciser -- it has been cited as evidence that he's a lightweight who is lazy and isn't taking his job very seriously. Jonathan Chait once wrote in the L.A. Times that, "Bush has an obsession with exercise that borders on the creepy." Somehow, I don't see that sort of reaction to the Obama news.

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