Mele Kalikimaka! Obama at the Gym on Christmas Eve

By GottaLaff

No wonder he looks so good. He doesn't even take a holiday on a holiday: From the pool report:

President-elect Barack Obama started off Christmas Eve the same way he has every day of his Hawaii vacation - with a workout at Semper Fit Center gym at Marine Corps Base Hawaii at Kaneohe Bay.

Obama's motorcade left his Kailua rental home at 7:39 a.m. [...] Michelle Obama was not with him.

Afterward, he greeted and shook hands with a throng of about 60 people that had gathered in the parking lot of the fitness center, where Obama has started his mornings each day since arriving on Saturday.

"Hey, man, how's it going," he asked one person before wishing everyone, "Mele Kalikimaka!" (The Hawaiian translation of Merry Christmas.)

He then turned to some children and asked, "You guys got your Christmas lists all together?"

[...] (The pool, as has become customary during Obama's workouts, went to the nearby McDonald's on base.)

Mahalo, pool reporters.