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Those Greasy Burgers Don't Fool Us, Barack

Dowd to prez: Stop pretending you like junk food and eat healthy

By Jason Farago, Newser Staff

Posted Jun 17, 2009 7:00 AM CDT

(Newser) – He might take his veep out for a burger once in a while, but Barack Obama is a health nut—so much so, notes Maureen Dowd, that when he and Michelle had dinner in New York "he managed the impossible feat of nibbling only... Read full story »

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