‘Lawyers in Love’ Could Be White House Theme Song

Posted Aug 11, 2009 12:24 PM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss

The Obamas aren’t the only lawyers in love at the White House.

Cass Sunstein, a former University of Chicago law professor, met his wife Samantha Power while the two were working on Obama’s presidential campaign. Now Sunstein is charged with managing government regulations while Power is a senior official at the National Security Council, the New York Times reports. They had their first child in April.

Another Obama staffer, interim communications director Anita Dunn, is married to the Obamas’ personal lawyer, Bob Bauer of Perkins Coie, who is also the Democratic Party's lawyer, according to Politico.

The Time quotes a Sunstein magazine interview in which he said, ''You know what they say: Obama brings people together.''

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J.D.
Aug 11, 2009 2:57 PM CST

I think the Beatles’ “Back in the USSR” might be more appropriate. It has a love theme to it, but also highlights the politics of the day. In that sense, it’s much more comprehensive.

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Netochka Nezvanova
Aug 11, 2009 3:37 PM CST

Now there’s a Jackson Browne song I haven’t heard in a while….

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Lee
Aug 12, 2009 10:10 AM CST

Glad to hear that birds are singing and bees are buzzing at the White House. I’m giddy with joy that the days of Camelot have at last returned.

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Been There
Aug 12, 2009 3:04 PM CST

Let’s remember that Michelle met Barak when she was an associate and he was a summer associate at her firm.

I wonder how that would have flown in today’s workplace environment of “No fishing off the company pier”?

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