The Column

Tuesday, August 25, 2009

Long photo shoots in Cubs gear will set Obama off

Besides all these evil people disrupting his proposal for a government-run health care system, what really ticks Barack Obama off?


The skinny:
  • When aides schedule events that conflict with dad/daughter time.
  • People who try to get him to wear baseball gear from teams other than the White Sox.
  • Missing his daily workout.

  • Photographers who take a seemingly endless stream of snapshots of him.
  • The “shine police”—makeup artists who constantly re-powder his face before interviews.
  • Getting too-detailed instructions. “If you spend too much time telling him where to go, how you get there, and everything in between, it drives him crazy,” said one long-time aide.
  • The biggest pet peeve: being late. “He hates inconveniencing people,” said another aide. "He hates being rushed, and he hates shortchanging someone.”

I can't help it. I keep picturing him in a Cubs ball cap. So call me a troublemaker.


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