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Sat 01 Jan 2009Obama's fitness challenges modern man
THE NEWS that Barack Obama arose at 5.30 am (!) to “work out” on the morning of his inauguration must have sent a shiver through the hearts of men of all religions and hues across the world.
It seems clear now that the boundless energy that this man flaunts is going to have terrible repercussions for slackers everywhere. It doesn’t matter whether you are a bushwhacker lazing in a hammock in the Australian outback or a German hippy fond of cultivating weed on a restored tenement cottage outside Bohola, there can be no escaping the fact that Mr Obama has just raised the bar for every man.
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