Apparently beauty is indeed in the eye of the beholder. Eli Saslow of the Washington Post has a crush on someone, or so it seems from this disturbingly over-the-top page one story on our new Adonis:

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.

Meanwhile, you will recall Jonathan Chait’s saying that President Bush’s similar exercise regimen “shows how out of touch he is. It’s nice for Bush that he can take an hour or two out of every day to run, bike or pump iron. Unfortunately, most of us have more demanding jobs than he does.” HT: MM

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