Shirtless images of Obama cause stir online
WASHINGTON — Forget Barack Obama’s staff making contact with a governor charged with corruption. What’s got everyone talking is the president-elect’s fine first form. ‘‘FIT FOR OFFICE: Buff Bam is Hawaii hunk,’’ the New York Post gushed on its cover Tuesday above a photo of the future president strolling without a shirt in Hawaii. The Drudge Report called him ‘‘President Beefcake’’ while TMZ said the president-elect is ‘‘still humble enough to do laundry — ON HIS ABS!’’ The photos were distributed by Bauer-Griffin, a photo agency more typically found on the corners of Hollywood. Photographer Chris Behnke simply strolled along the beach to get the shot, said agency co-owner Frank Griffin. Obama ‘‘wasn’t hiding. He was completely out in the open,’’ Griffin said. ‘‘We didn’t by any stretch of the imagination expect to get the images we got.
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