Over on the home page, I have a piece wondering if the race is turning into Apple’s Mac vs. PC commercials. Obama is clearly the earlier version of Justin Long’s “Mac” guy, a little too cool for his own good.
The redesigned logo, the will.i.am video, the cover of men’s Vogue, his ability to be deemed one of the fittest men in America (despite the occasional cigarette), his Versace-dedicated line, the news that he regularly trades lengthy e-mails with Scarlett Johansson. . . . We get it, the guy is cooler than 99 percent of us will ever be. We will hear endless comparisons to John F. Kennedy, the last president who enjoyed the status of a style icon.
I’ll make one update, though – according to Obama, Johansson is lying about trading lengthy e-mail exchanges. “She sent one email to Reggie, who forwarded it to me,” Obama said, referring to his 26-year-old personal assistant, Reggie Love. “I write saying, ‘thank you Scarlett for doing what you do,’ and suddenly we have this email relationship.”
UPDATE: Groan. A reader suggests, “I did not… have… textual relations with that woman, Miss Johansson.”