Your Buddy, the President(ial) Candidate

Michelle emailed me again.  She wanted to tell me a little story about her and Barack backstage at the Democratic Convention in 2004 and how she’d broken the tension with a private joke. Barack likes to tell a story about the two of us standing backstage before his speech at Read more…

The Sharing President (ial Candidate)

The Obama08 campaign doesn’t stop amazing me.  Today Michelle Obama emailed me to show me a video (shared via YouTube of course) from The Bronx High School for Performance and Stagecraft in a tough part of the Bronx (are there wimpy parts of the Bronx??). The video is incredibly natural.  Read more…