Andrew Golis

A profile of Obama is in the Washington Post. Read the whole thing! Here’s the beginning:

There’s nothing exotic or complicated about how phenoms are made in Washington, and, more to the point, how they are broken.

“Andy Warhol said we all get our 15 minutes of fame,” says Barack Obama. “I’ve already had an hour and a half. I mean, I’m so overexposed, I’m making Paris Hilton look like a recluse.”

The new senator from Illinois is dazzling another venue, in this case the Gridiron Club. It is early December and Obama won’t start his new job for a few weeks. But he comes well steeped in the basic physics of hype.

“I figure there’s nowhere to go from here but down,” Obama says. “So tonight, I announce my retirement from the United States Senate.”

Read on, he’s quite the charmer.

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