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President Barack Obama speaks to the media Monday about the airliner bombing attempt on Christmas Day.
It’s not just me. Our president is looking worn out.
WASHINGTON — After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency - the early decisions to bail out the nation’s banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan. More here.
Would you want his job?
D.F. Oliveria is a columnist and blogger for The Spokesman-Review. Huckleberries Online was judged the best 2008 Idaho newspaper blog by the Idaho Press Club. And the best 2007 news blog in the Pacific Northwest by the Society for Professional Journalist. Print Huckleberries is a past winner of the Herb Caen Memorial Column contest by the National Association of Newspaper Columnists. The Readership Institute of Northwestern University cited this blog as a good example of online community journalism.
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LukeB on December 30 at 8:59 a.m.
Nope. He inherited a huge, huge mess. Not just from W but from all of his previous 7 predecessors.
Kage_Mann on December 30 at 9:22 a.m.
I remember Jimmy Carter looking quite haggard, almost 30 years ago. I’m sure there’s alot Obama has to worry about; I just hope he’s worrying about the right things.
Bent on December 30 at 9:27 a.m.
He needs to quit smoking and he will feel a million times better
idawa on December 30 at 9:32 a.m.
looks like the standard aging of the presidency - I love all those shots of Clinton, GWB, etc before and after the role … ugh, it has to be the most stressful job in the world running the free world and all …
Kage_Mann on December 30 at 9:36 a.m.
The only thing I have in common with the president is: we both like to play Basketball. I’d like to play him one-on-one, but judging from the photo, I wouldn’t want to give him a heart attack either. ;-)
spokelooneh on December 30 at 2:24 p.m.
You’d think Forbes would know that the decision to bail out the banks was made by the previous President and Congress. Jeeze. Sloppy or completely ignorant.
I have no doubt occupying the Presidency ages a person a 3 times the normal rate.