Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Barack's "Body" brands

Barack has a "Body Man" named Reggie Love who watches out for him and his needs, big and small. Now that Barack is president with "the whole world in your hand" as Rev. Joseph Lowery addressed him in the benediction, the small details make all the difference. According to Brian Williams, Regee carries Chapstick, Purell, and several Sharpie pens among other things. I wonder what he carries it in. I looked for images of a man purse, tote or sport bag but haven't yielded anything yet.

Apparently, Barack also recognized value in Reggie's music acumen. [sourced from the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/27/us/politics/27reggie.html?_r=3&oref=slogin&oref=slogin]
After the Democratic presidential debate in Philadelphia in April, Mr. Obama borrowed a move from the rapper Jay-Z and mimed brushing off his shoulders, but it was Mr. Love who had uploaded his music to the senator’s iPod in the first place — a silver Nano that he bought the senator for his 46th birthday.

“So I’ve gotten pretty fond of Jay-Z,” Mr. Obama said. “He’s broadened my horizons in the hip-hop world.”

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