Senator Obama admitted to Maureen Dowd that the gushing German reporter from the workout “played” him.
Obama marveled: “I’m just realizing what I’ve got to become accustomed to. The fact that I was played like that at the gym. Do you remember ‘The Color of Money’ with Paul Newman? And Forest Whitaker is sort of sitting there, acting like he doesn’t know how to play pool. And then he hustles the hustler. She hustled us. We walk into the gym. She’s already on the treadmill. She looks like just an ordinary German girl. She smiles and sort of waves, shyly, but doesn’t go out of her way to say anything. As I’m walking out, she says: ‘Oh, can I have a picture? I’m a big fan.’ Reggie takes the picture.”
Do you remember The Color of Tehran with Ahmadinejad? And A-Jad is sort of sitting there, acting like he doesn’t want a nuclear bomb. And then he hustles the hustler…