The story broke when the Washington Post political correspondent noticed the president seemed to be less animated than usual, and finally the story came out: President Obama had Madame Tussaud make a stand-in to sit at his desk and sign documents so that he could go on an arctic bear and seal hunting trip with Vladimir Putin with their shirts off and do a little male bonding.  By the middle of the second day, he was wishing he had sent the Madame Tussaud stand-in and stayed home where he could have the secret service do the shooting, and he could have stayed warm. . .