Why is it so difficult to understand that some people enjoy reading? Honestly, I don’t know if Obama is one of those, and maybe his reading list is made-up. Maybe the reading list is Michelle’s, and Barack’s got a stack of Danielle Steele novels on the nightstand. But the fact that people who read all day for work or study can also enjoy reading for relaxation is hardly as big a mystery to me as it seems to be to you.
What’s so hard to believe that some people like to play golf. Since there are a fair few pictures of the President (pick one) playing golf I’m just going to go out on a limb and suggest they like to play it.
Aha! You believe that a person can only do one thing to relax! Since the president plays golf for relaxation, he must not also enjoy reading for relaxation.
Wait, that makes no sense at all. I must be misunderstanding you.
If I were president and headed off on a vacation, the last thing I would want to read is anything nonfiction [unless it was a cook book]
I would probably go with:
Something by Stephen King or Dean Kuntz, a good juicy old school horror
Harry Potter, not sure which, maybe Chamber of Secrets
Undead and Unwed just to mess with folks 
and
Thud
Oh come on, the guy lives with his wife, mother in law, two daughters, and a neutered dog. Let him enjoy his manly books!
Well, it wouldn’t surprise me, nor would I care, if someone who spends tons of time dealing with briefings and reports and speechs and charts and learning the history and motivations of various tribes in Libya and Egypt and Syria ad infinitum would spend their vacation not reading, or reading World War Z. Now Twilight, on the other hand, might bother me.
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