MILLER: Who is the real Barack Obama? - Washington Times
President Obama avoids tough questions. He has given up press conferences and interviews with the White House press corps, preferring instead to divide his time among FM radio stations, vapid entertainment shows and Hollywood magazines. The scraps of information he does provide, however, further the impression of an empty suit.
Even intelligence on a subject as innocuous as his family’s daily habits is layered in contradiction. On Wednesday, “Entertainment Tonight” featured the first couple dishing out intimate personal details. “I haven’t lost any ardor for my wife,” the president cooed of their upcoming 20th anniversary. “The one thing I will say is she falls asleep at like 9 p.m. That’s a problem.” Never mind that he’d just told Vanity Fair that Mrs. Obama goes to bed at 10 p.m.
The liberal, glossy magazine had an unprecedented eight months of access to the president, learning that Mr. Obama says he sleeps from 1 to 7 a.m. and then works out from 7:30 to 8:30 a.m. The first lady said she wakes up by 4:30 or 5 a.m. to work out and spend time with her husband.
“I usually get to the gym before he does,” she told the women’s website iVillage. “But he is usually there either in the middle of my workout or right at the end.” So either Mrs. Obama is exercising for three hours every morning or one of these heartwarming stories isn’t exactly true.
Because the leader of the free world doesn’t step into the Oval Office until 9 a.m., he skips the early-morning intelligence briefings about two-thirds of the time. This contrasts to the practice of George W. Bush, who typically arrived at work by 6:45 a.m. and rarely missed a briefing.
The Wall Street Journal reported Monday that the White House staff mocks the president because he looks uncomfortable holding a beer and actually prefers a martini. That’s interesting, considering how many campaign photos show Mr. Obama with a beer.
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