President Obama likes pie

Jason Sandford

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From ABCNews.com:

Presidents have had their indulgences — Ronald Reagan loved jellybeans and Bill Clinton binged at McDonald’s. What’s President Barack Obama’s weak spot?

Pie.

Obama’s senior adviser, David Axelrod, told Jay Leno Friday that the president was forced to “separate” from the White House pastry chef to break his bad eating habits.

“One of the things that happened when he came to the White House is they have a very great pastry chef. It became a big problem,” Axelrod confided on “The Tonight Show.”

The president, he said, “has a weakness for pie.”

The chunky-built Axelrod might just be needling his boss — Obama lectures him about diet, exercise and his “beer gut.”