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| Last Edited | COSDem Jan 05, 2005 03:23pm |
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| Media | Newspaper - Chicago Sun-Times |
| News Date | Wednesday, January 5, 2005 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | WASHINGTON -- Barack Obama's first Washington news conference was held this week in a crammed little room in the basement of the Dirksen Senate Office Building where his temporary office is bivouacked.
As 30 news people squeezed together amid the cameras and the microphones, we did our level best to dream up fresh new questions for this freshman superstar U.S. senator before he had ever cast his first vote or written his first bill.
I couldn't keep myself from flashing back to the glory days of Michael Jordan.
I kept seeing in my mind's eye a locker room interview, I can't recall which year, following yet another Bull's championship victory.
Struggling against the same old cliched, "How do you feel?" "What will you do next?" questions, I remember my then-colleague Mark Giangreco launching to Jordan the old Barbara Walters bromide, "Michael, if you were a tree, what kind of tree would you be?"
Jordan stopped dead, did a double take, and said, "What?"
He and Mark dissolved into laughter. Each knew neither one of them had a single new thing to say. But given the circumstances, each understood they were required to say something anyway.
And so it is this week here in Washington
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