Here's a great moment from the same day that picture was taken (yesterday), spotted by the always-excellent Peter Baker of the NYT:
On the day before moving into the nation’s most storied house, Barack Obama
visited a shelter for teenagers with no home. With sleeves rolled up,
he spent a few minutes painting for the benefit of the cameras that
trail him everywhere now.
Cara Fuller, a shelter worker, asked if he was sweating.
“Nah, I don’t sweat,” he told her. “You ever see me sweat?”
Ha. Except, as Baker notes, he might be sweating (figuratively if not physically) after today. Obama's exceptional self-control will be sorely tested in the next few weeks alone. Further to my musings on the difference between Barack and Bill comes this laconic comment from John Podesta who has worked closely with both:
That contrasts with Mr. Clinton, who liked free-ranging discussion and took time making decisions. Mr. Podesta, Mr. Clinton’s last White House chief of staff, described the former president as brilliant at “thinking laterally” across subject areas. “One thing that seemed not to have taken on Bill Clinton is law school,” he said. “I tend to think of the president-elect as approaching a problem in a more logical, more drill-down sort of way.”
The whole piece is worth a read.
ps that kid is called Jedi, apparently. You can see The Force is with him.
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