“Barack Obama's so slender his wedding band looked as if it was slipping off. There was a wariness in his dark eyes. [He was a] tad testy traipsing around desolate stretches of snowy-- and extremely white-- Iowa."
-- New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd, who later reported that Obama repeatedly got indignant about the beach-babe attention given to a photo of him in the Hawaiian surf-- to which Dowd snapped, "He poses for the cover of men’s Vogue and then gets huffy when people don't treat him as Hannah Arendt."
