If you didn't like yesterday's revelations about tensions in the
McCain-Palin campaign, the dish we have today from Barack Obama's camp
won't make you feel much better.
Because it's all very warm and fuzzy.
Time magazine reporter Karen Tumulty collected war stories from insiders on the president-elect's campaign. Get this: no one greets advisers in a towel. (Bummer.)
The scoop:
When Obama learned the plane he was flying on would have to do an emergency landing, his response was "golly." When the plane landed safely, he pulled out his phone and called Michelle, who had been watching the whole thing unfold on TV.
After he swished a ball on the court of a U.S. base in Iraq, Obama told an aide, "I knew I was going to make it."
On losing in New Hampshire and pressing advisers to tell him why, his response: "This thing is going to go on for a while, isn't it?"
But it's not all hugs and gollies anymore. Obama's choice of Rahm Emanuel for chief-of-staff has some a little freaked out (but they're mainly Republicans).
The president-elect has also named a bunch of people to his economic transition team, arguably the most important group to get in place at the very beginning. Warren Buffet's on the list as is Robert Reich (whom we don't mind saying we have a bit of a brain crush on). There are a couple of women -- but only a couple. In fact, so far Obama's pretty heavy on the white and the male with his appointments or those rumored to being under consideration. Just an early alert to some possible controversy (especially since the economic team includes Lawrence Summers, former Harvard president who resigned after saying that totally crazy shit about men having better brains for math and science).
Oprah, in an effort to insinuate herself as much as possible into this election and our lives, will have that dude whose shoulder she was crying on at Obama's election night rally on her live show today. He was a campaign worker in California. She didn't know "Mr. Man," as she called him on Wednesday, but apparently she liked the way he spooned standing up. Our guess is he'll be repackaged in enough time to join her on this holiday's "Oprah's Favorite Things" episode.
The sadly re-elected Michelle Bachman (R-Minn), of "let's investigate anti-American activity" fame, said she's happy Obama was elected because it proves Americans aren't racist. Using that logic, her re-election proves that her constituents are not smart.
Also not smart? That idiot Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi who said of the new U.S. leader, "he's young, handsome, and even suntanned." Damn, Italy, so glad he's yours.
Oh, this is embarrassing. The North Carolina county that Sarah Palin called "real America"? Ummm, totally went for Obama. Like, in a landslide, 59 to 41 percent. We've always kind of liked "real America" too.
Look away, Palin apologists, look away! A few more specks of dirt about her campaign and its (once) hidden troubles: heavy spending on her clothes continued well past the convention and included a custom-made outfit around the time of her appearance on Saturday Night Live (eh. Just send Loren Michaels the receipt). And suuuuper embarrassing: a Republican Party lawyer is being sent to Alaska to inventory and retrieve campaign clothes still in her possession. (Hint: be sure to check Todd's closet, too!)
A little parenting news to slowly transition us away from the election:
Carnie Wilson (the Wilson sister who did gastric bypass ... that one) is pregnant, quite possibly with twins. She and her hub already have a three-year-old daughter.
Not a single racy scene from Little House on the Prairie comes to mind -- though we sort of suspect that ol' Uncle Jack was a real rascal in bed. Still, Finland has marked DVDs of the series as suitable for adult viewing only. Grrrrrrr.
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