Okay, I admit, I’m the last one in the world who should throw stones at someone for being thin-skinned.

But Ryan Lizza’s lengthy profile of Barack Obama in the latest GQ offers an anecdote that suggests the Illinois senator might suffer from my ailment, commonly known as Irish Alzheimers. (“You forget everything but a grudge.”)

He sees me approach and suddenly a memory seems to be triggered. “You know, it’s like Ryan Lizza,” he says, gesturing at me and smiling widely. “Did I tell you the story of when I was sitting there doodling—I’m just drawing a bunch of different faces. And I guess that one face I drew was a long face. So he just assumed it was me.” It’s true, I once noted that the attention Obama was receiving seemed to be going to his head. As evidence, I reported that during an interview he doodled a picture of himself. This is the second time in three years Obama has brought up Doodlegate. At the Democratic convention, he approached me at a press breakfast and gently admonished me for the anecdote, then took out a pen and drew two doodles on a newspaper, one with a narrow face that I instantly recognized from our interview. “You see a picture of a guy with a long chin and big ears and automatically assume it’s me?” he asked. It was a light-hearted rebuke but also a reminder of Obama’s reputation for being a little thin-skinned. To prove once and for all the old doodle was not a self-portrait, Obama asks to show me his latest doodle. I hand him my notebook, and he draws the profile of a face with a big nose. Definitely not him. Though I can’t help notice it does look a little like Bill Clinton.

Three years later, and Obama’s still poking at Lizza for writing about the doodle? Cripes, let it go, man. You’re running for president. Bigger fish to fry.

Maybe when you get magazine cover shots like this, anything that resembles criticism feels like a slap in the face:

Barack Obama: One of “The Young QBs”?