Obama compares his work on the economy to his gym routine

Washington Examiner ^ | 02/06/16 | Philip Klein

[MarvinStinson]

President Obama on Friday compared his work to keep the U.S. economy churning to the extra effort he has to put into his physical workouts as he ages.

We should feel good about the progress we've made, understanding that we have still got more work to do, Obama said Friday while speaking about news that unemployment in January dropped below 5 percent for the first time in eight years. It's sort of like … Im 54 now, so I have to work out harder to stay in shape, and, you know, if I'm feeling good in the gym, I want to acknowledge that what I'm doing is working, Obama said from the White House briefing room.

Otherwise, I'll just go out and have a big double bacon cheeseburger or something, because Ill think, well, this isn't working, he said about people who are frustrated because they aren't getting as much from the economy as they want.

Now, if it's working, then we should be staying on that same path, he continued, arguing that his policies have put the country on more stable economic footing than seemed possible when he took office at the beginning of the Great Recession. That doesn't mean that Im where I necessarily want to be. It doesn't mean that I stop, you know, doing some hard work to get where we need to go.

[AFreeBird]

Weak?

[SunkenCiv]

He should compare it to his golf game, where the lowest possible numbers are the objective. Thanks MarvinStinson.

[fivecatsandadog]

maybe 10 pounds in each paw... hahahaha

[RegulatorCountry]

Little dumbbells jumping up and down to no effect?

[DoughtyOne]

[DoughtyOne]

Three dumbbells on parade...

[JoeProBono]

[ColdOne]

What a load.

[The_Media_never_lie]

3 lb bbells?

[KarlInOhio]

Obama compares his work on the economy to his gym routine

Pull enough weights off the barbell and pretend that you're having a great workout, like pulling tens of millions of workers off the labor force participation numbers and pretending that the unemployment rate is 5%.

[ronnie raygun]

failure!!!!! as we can all see by his physical appearance

[oldvirginian]

The economy is pathetically enemic, just like Barry Barack Hussein Soetero Obama’s workouts.

I’ve got the little Nancy boy by a decade and I could bury his butt in the gym.

[Georgia Girl 2]

What is Blam bench pressing now about 50 lbs? :-)

[Slyfox]

The gym routine that includes a four-hour fun time with his body man?

[dandiegirl]

That is still one of the funniest clips of BO ever.

[hattend]

[Mr Apple]

America Has Rapidly Declined Under Obama.

Understatement, big time!

[EinNYC]

More like, they are hollow and it’s all a pantomime. That would fit in better with the rest of his pathetic lying lifestyle.

[sheik yerbouty]

He was just using those to squeeze his buttocks each rep. Reggie nust loves it!

[Bedford Forrest]

Now that is priceless - I’ll bet Putin and Lavrov, high testosterone dudes that they are, use some really great Russian words to describe the Nancy Boy poofter from Nairobi.