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The President's Table by Barry H. Landau5/13/2023 We're talking about a puff of tobacco or a mild BlackBerry addiction. We're not talking about major scandals here. we have more trouble developing respect for the officeholder and we start to find fault, too easily, about issues that don't really matter. Thanks to these reported facts, we think we know everything about the guy.īut does our increasingly informal relationship with the man in the White House - not just President Obama, but any sitting president - diminish our respect for the man and reverence for the office? Should we leave the uncovering of private and behind-closed-doors habits to the historians? It's Barack Obama, the president of the United States. He told elementary students this about his dog, Bo: "Sometimes I have to scoop up his poop." He loves shrimp linguini, berry-flavored tea and Moby-Dick. And his wife says he is sometimes "too snore-y and stinky" to share the marital bed. Does all this familiarity breed contempt for the office?ĭo you know who recently stopped smoking Marlboros? Here are some hints: He received 12 stitches in his busted lip. Americans have seen President Obama's busted lip up close, and they even know he snores.
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