Was Obama "Pec" Picture staged?

The Washington Times ^ | 12/24/08 | Jennifer Harper

[lakeprincess]

The shirtless "hot president" photo seen 'round the world: Was it staged, like the Clintons dancing on the beach long ago? Some have voiced their suspicions. Check the link, which recalls that Reagan had his cachet as a lifeguard.

[rabidralph]

I’m not sure what people find “hot” about a guy with a pencil neck, barrel chest, skinny arms and legs. He doesn’t even have the decency to work on his biceps. He’s still a girly-man.

[Let's Roll]

Ditto, all one has to see is the way his pencil neck does NOT fill out his shirt collar to realize that developed pecs he ain’t gonna have.

[Bon mots]

Another POSEUR.

Left wing lunatics love their cult of personality.
Just like Adolf Hitler, everything you see about him is very carefully planned, staged and coordinated with a genuflecting, adoring press.

He selects the pose, probably got to choose the picture.
Made sure he pumped up with weights that his lackeys dragged all the way out there...

Just like Hitler meticulously designed all the uniforms and insignia for the Nazis, Obama was involved in his stupid Presidential seal, his own worshipful salute, that stupid faux Greek oracle he spoke from at the convention, and even the laughable made-up "Office of the President-Elect".

Just friggin' kill me.

[VideoDoctor]

Obama HIMSELF is a STAGED Event.

[JudyinCanada]

I was in Walmart last night and there was a book on Michelle called “First Lady of Hope”. I thought I would be sick.

I think the Laura Bush type makes the most admirable First Lady. She was and always will be a delight - someone your country can be proud of.

[sierrahome]

Probably staged and probably photo-shopped

[Las Vegas Ron]

Now THAT would have been a FINE first lady

Nah, Beyonce would need to be "upgraded"

[Dr. Ursus]

Yea, he taking the train like Lincoln to D.C. Although,he must be thinking of Lincoln’s funeral train.Didn’t Lincoln have to sneak into D.C. for his inauguration? Not sure

[SoftwareEngineer]

Senor Coyote,

I don’t know if you post was tongue in cheek, but His Holiness the Obama of Kenya is definitely waxing his chest. East Africans have hairy chests (if you ever visit Kenya for tourism, you will know what I mean)

Our new Pope is completely hairless in the Chestacular area.

Which means when the National Security team was updating him on the latest Al-Qaeda threat, our Great Poopoo was thinking “Hmm, I wonder if Jasmine can fit me in for a waxing today, up top and below!”

[Long Island Pete]

How could it have been staged? He wasnt wearing a crown of thorns.

[Will88]

“Was Obama “Pec” Picture staged?”

Highly probable. Few things happen by accident at the presidential level, except for the occasional, very pubic, spur-of-the-moment gaff or slip-up.

[Gone_Postal]

that will be in 2012

[bereanway]

Manboobs is exactly correct. He'd have been well advised to keep his shirt on. BTW, rootin tootin pootin blew him away in the Drudge online poll of the shirtless megalomaniacs by 2 to 1.

[nina0113]

“Hot”? I looked at it and said “eeeww”...

He needs the kind of muscles you get from doing actual work, not just working out. And stop waxing!

[HungarianGypsy]

He looked hotter in his “smoking a joint. I wanna be pimp daddy” pictures from college. Maybe in this case, he just looked hot in that it was a warm day kind of way.

[SoftwareEngineer]

Judy,

Laura Bush was BY FAR the finest first lady atleast from the second half of the 20th century to today. I don’t know much about first ladies in the 19th century (beyond Mary Todd) but Laura Bush seems to be the Gold Standard on how to be elegant, graceful and a “mom” to the nation.

Do not get me wrong. I did admire Jackie O too (despite the fact that she was a Democrat). Jackie O too set a high standard but where Laura Bush beats her is that everyone (including the most rabid Democrat) agrees that she is full of compassion and grace and also elegance (which is the one area that Jackie O held her own)

Barbara Bush and Nancy Reagan were fine first ladies. Babs was a good grandma in the traditional mold and Nancy was a good grandma in the “I will never get old” mode

[Magic Fingers]

He looks like an absolutely ordinary schmoe to me. I don’t see anything remarkable about his physique.

[earlJam]

I remember a photo of Reagan in a bathing suit.

IIRC, one of the news anchors (I think it was Peter Jennings) who mocked Reagan for appearing to suck in his gut for the photo.

I’m sure none of the anchors today will have the same attitude about Obama.

[The_Media_never_lie]

Next,he’ll be photographed with a stove pipe hat and a beard!

What? No picture of O puffing a fag?

[oh8eleven]

SO vain and shallow that he waxes his chest?
Or ....