President Obama's War on Fun

It’s a high-pressure job, the presidency. Think about how badly the bin Laden raid could have gone. The worst case scenario — Navy SEALs trapped in a firefight with Pakistani forces — could have made “Black Hawk Down” look like a cakewalk. Yet the night after he gave the “go” order, President Obama hit the White House Correspondents’ Dinner and had to grin his way through canned laugh lines working over “the Donald.”

Stressful! You couldn’t blame the guy if he wanted to take the edge off with a smoke. Alas, he quit a year ago. It was “a personal challenge for him,” the first lady explained recently, and she never “poked and prodded.”