Obama and the Clean White Shirt

Outsourced to the Wichita Bureau again: did you notice that Obama at the service project, painting?  And that he is wearing a long-sleeved white shirt?  To paint?    He doesn't own a paint shirt?  

I think it's a shrewd call, and telling: the fact is that Obama, for all his outreach, is emotionally pretty remote.  We may see him civil, humble, courteous and suchlike, but never down and dirty (basketball may be an exception, but even there he seems to operate with a kind of contained cool).

Wichita again: "If he's going to make a point of painting, he needs to find his old Harvard sweatshirt, wash it sixty times, poke a few holes in it and wear that.