* PRESIDENT OBAMA STILL SMOKING? . . . *

WASHINGTON - President Obama's doctors hinted Sunday that he still might be sneaking smokes when Michelle and the kids aren't around to yell at him.

Obama's routine physical at the Bethesda Naval Medical Center found him in "excellent health" and "fit for duty" but the docs also included a cryptic recommendation that he "continue smoking cessation efforts."

Obama should continue his "nicotine replacement therapy - self-use (gum or the patch)," the doctor said.

~ WELL,IT'S BEEN TWO PLUS YEARS NOW - IF HE WON'T DO IT FOR HIS WIFE, IF HE WON'T DO IT FOR HIS TWO BEAUTIFUL DAUGHTERS WHO ARE SAID TO BE ON HIM CONSTANTLY BECAUSE OF IT, IF HE WON'T DO IT FOR EITHER HIS DOCTOR OR ANY OF THE 300 MILLION U.S. CITIZENS WHO CALL HIM COMMANDER IN CHIEF - AND FINALLY, IF HE WILL NOT DO IT FOR HIMSELF - THEN OBVIOUSLY THIS MAN HAS SOME SERIOUSLY SCARY, DEEP AND TRULY DISTURBING ISSUES GOING ON INSIDE HIMSELF. I IMAGINE IT MAY COME, IN PART, FROM KNOWING THAT HE HAS NO REAL POWER HIMSELF TO CHANGE OR REALLY AFFECT THE DESTINY OF THIS COUNTRY OTHER THAN TO HELP FERRY IT ON TOWARD THE IMPENDING DISASTER AND DOOM THAT IT CURRENTLY FACES, BY DUTIFULLY CARRYING OUT HIS MASTERS PLANS TO THE LETTER, AND SECURING HIS POSITION IN HISTORY AS 'THE PRESIDENT THAT WAS ACTUALLY WORSE THAN BUSH' . . . I'M WORRIED TO DISCOVER WHAT HE MUST ALREADY BE AWARE OF . . 2012 IS RIGHT AROUND THE CORNER, FOLKS . . . . ~

OBAMA OWNED UP during the 2008 presidential campaign to falling off the wagon occassionally in his effort to quit with the help of nicotine gum.

Obama has also said that First Lady Michelle Obama, and kids Malia and Sasha, have been all over him to break the habit.

The initial report on the physical from Dr. Jeff Kuhlman, director of the White House Medical Unit, also suggested that Obama may have lost some of the jump on his jump shot.

The report said his knees sometimes ache and the docs recommended a "lower extemity muscle strengthening program."