November 14, 2008


Before He Was President Elect

Katherine Rosman on meeting Obama in 2003:

But what I will always remember is as I was leaving that party in 2003, I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn’t know that Obama was a guest at the party, and had asked him to fetch him a drink. In less than six years, Obama has gone from being mistaken for a waiter among the New York media elite, to the president-elect.

via Panopticist

posted by Andrew Simone in anecdotes, journalism, politics 

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  1. Before He Was President-Elect « The Errant Æsthete on November 17th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

    [...] “But what I will always remember is as I was leaving that party in 2003, I was approached by another guest, an established author. He asked about the man I had been talking to. Sheepishly he told me he didn’t know that Obama was a guest at the party, and had asked him to fetch him a drink. In less than six years, Obama has gone from being mistaken for a waiter among the New York media elite, to the president-elect.” [via Link] [...]

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