The rapturous reception that Barack Obama got in Germany yesterday has been well-examined today - but mercifully, the silliest moment so far has been Der Spiegel's none-too-subtle American Idol references.
Actually, it got a lot sillier. Bild newspaper sent a female reporter to work out with Obama at the gym, it seems, and the resulting prose is breathless enough to make People magazine and US Weekly look like Foreign Affairs.
"Barack Obama is wearing a gray t-shirt, black tracksuit bottoms - and a great smile!" she cries. Obama is seen doing 40 reps of arm curls before moving on to 10 sit-ups (seriously? Jessica Biel does 15).
"I put my arm around his hip - wow, he didn't even sweat! WHAT A MAN!" the reporter concludes. If this doesn't become a Saturday Night Live skit, the world will be worse off for it.
