Amid all the congratulatory calls the President received after his win in the election, one of the most surprising was the one he made to himself. “I just wanted to hear me say something other than ‘I’m Barack Obama and I approve this message’.”
The White House switchboard was shocked when it received the call as the person on the other end of the line said, “I’m the President and I’m calling to congratulate myself. Please put me through.”
Maizie Bloomfeld, senior White House operator said, “It sounded just like him, but a little raspy, like he was losing his voice. We’re trained to recognize crank calls and we disconnected it.
A moment later Vice President Biden got through. He’s a hoot. We knew it was him because he often calls the switchboard with a joke to relieve the tension when we receive thousands of calls from tea party complainers” and said, “Look, it’s been a long campaign, it really is the President, humor him.” “That’s when we received POTUS’ second call.”
He was very nice about being hung up on and reminded us that we’d still be around for another 4 years. That was nice.
Shockingly, according to aides Obama spoke to himself without the aid of a teleprompter or script. He rambled for a while but then got back on message as he bid himself goodbye and hung up the phone.