President Obama and Rush Limbaugh have something in common

Formerly nicotine-stained fingers. If this story isn’t just a ploy to boost the Prez’s ratings a notch.

President Barack Obama has finally done what millions of fellow Americans are still struggling to achieve – he’s given up smoking.

“Yes, he has,” his wife, Michelle, said Tuesday at the White House when asked whether he had conquered a nicotine habit that began as a teenager.

“It’s been almost a year,” she said, offering no details on exactly when or how he quit.