How Obama's Alma Maters are Playing Up (or Down) His Big News

This cracked me up: I went to the Punahou School website to see if the school's most famous -- and now most powerful -- alum was mentioned. I love the nonchalant nature of the news brief... like it's just another mundane piece of news, along side "Guest Clinician Hits Right Note" and "November Service Opportunities."




In comparison, here's how Eagle Rock's own Occidental, where Obama spent the first two years of college, is playing him up:



Hold on there, Oxy -- Columbia (where the prexy-elect spent the second half of his undergrad days) is also claiming Obama as its 1983 alum:



Then there's the Harvard Law School, which puts the Obama news under its normal "Spotlight on Alumni Pursuits" column. Love it -- "Hey, guess what Barack Obama '91 is up to these days -- he's just hanging out, you know, as the PRESIDENT-ELECT!"