From LATimes:
Obama stopped by the Big Apple Pizza and Pasta Restaurant to see owner Scott Van Duzer, who runs an awareness campaign promoting blood donation out of his shop. One other striking thing about him: He stands 6-foot-3 and weighs 260 pounds.
“Everybody, look at these guns!” Obama said as he walked in, pointing to Van Duzer’s arms.
The two men laughed and embraced – and then Van Duzer lifted the president about a foot in the air, according to a pool report filed by a White House correspondent in the room.
“Man, are you a powerlifter, or what?” Obama said, when returned to solid ground.
In fact, Van Duzer told the pool reporter, Politico’s Reid Epstein, that he can bench-press 350 pounds.
“I don’t vote party line; I vote who I feel comfortable with,” Van Duzer said. “And I do feel extremely comfortable with him.”
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