Posted on 03/10/2015 6:09:53 AM PDT by Citizen Zed
When he's mad, President Barack Obama gets eerily quiet.
A 21-year-old former Duke University football and basketball star improbably became then-Senator Obama's right-hand man during his first presidential campaign.
Reggie Love went on to work as Obama's personal aide for five years, crisscrossing the nation with America's future president, serving him meals, carrying around his luggage, buying him clothes, challenging him on the basketball court, and babysitting for his children.
In a new memoir, "Power Forward: My Presidential Education," Love discusses being by Obama's side "on the campaign trail when no one believed in him" to the "seconds before stepping onstage to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America." Love also shared stories of what it's like to upset the president.
Here are some of the times Love saw Obama's angry side.
(Snip)
"The senator opened the bag of trail mix I'd bought and proceeded to pick out every M&M, holding them all in his palm like pieces of candy-coated toxic waste. 'I'm not going to eat these,' he said while pushing his hand in my general direction. 'Do you want them?' he asked, wrinkling his nose. 'No thank you, sir,' I answered, then made the first of what would be thousands of notes to self: No candy with the trail mix."
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Translation - During lover’s spat, Obama gave Reggie the silent treatment.
He doesn't like M&Ms? Proof positive hes not American.
In a new memoir, "Power Forward: My Presidential Education," Love discusses being by Obama's side "on the campaign trail when no one believed in him" to the "seconds before stepping onstage to be sworn in as the 44th President of the United States of America." Love also shared stories of what it's like to upset the president.
ROTFL...."power forward"....
At least he's consistent about something. Always pawning off stuff he doesn't like on other people.
He’s embarrassed because He can’t spell ‘em .... better to just act like they don’t exist.
The ‘Rats proved that big hype can put a small man into the highest office in the land.
Somebody told him M&M's weren't halal...
I would like to ask Love the same question(s) I ask every liberal I discuss Obama with: "What did you expect from him? What did you hope he would do as President that caused you to follow him?"
I follow that with, "Why did you vote for him a second time?"
My experience after doing this over a dozen times is that the first questions bring out instant anger accompanied with a rant about Bush or Cheney, more often than not. And the second question is met with a mixture of silence and a semi remorseful comment about not being sure. A couple of people stood their ground and said he could have been one of the greatest if racism hadn't held him back.
With all the food pickiness, Obama sounds like a primadonna rockstar whom needs to get a life.
We know Bammy hates #43. The candy looked liked w&ws to Zer0.
I think he was holding them upside down and thought they were W’s.
Indeed.
M&Ms are part of Our WW2 legacy. They were invented to make the soldier’s life more bearable.
M&Ms are part of Americana.
The Lyin’ king is NOT.
It looks to me like Obama carries a grudge far too long. He should be focusing on doing his job, not steaming at some employee.
In the 70s, for business reasons, I spent a few days travelling across the country on the 'Fairlane', Henry Ford's long abandoned personal rail car. Along with it was one of the last remaining porters, probably one who had previously attended to Ford. The guy was the hardest working employee I have ever seen. He was the last to go to bed at night, after polishing all of the shoes left in the shoe compartment accessible to the hallway, and the first to get up in the morning making custom breakfast for everyone (as well as lunch and dinner, too. He acquired all the food, somehow, and cleaned everything up as well. There was always a pack of the proper cigarettes at the tables for everyone who smoked. He did all this cheerfully and vigorously.
It appears to me that Obama treated Love exactly the same as a porter, someone to take advantage of, not a peer.
I hear Ted Nugent has a clause in his contract that for a all appearances his dressing room must be provided a large clear glass bowl filled with only brown M&M’s.
To keep Obama away, apparently.
Personally, I’d be more interested in seeing what Obama looks like when he’s sane - or even intelligent.
Six years and counting, and America has never seen either.
I’m just here for the MeshugeMikey pics
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