Obama aide reveals how the groupie president fawned over celebs, was steamed when a high school coach called his wife 'fat-butt Michelle' and favored extra tight sweatpants and white socks with sandals *In West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir, senior writer Pat Cunnane tells how Obama's White House became 'Hollywood East' for its frequent celebrity guests
*'You never knew who you would run into on the way to the mess, or who was waiting for you to exit the restroom...we had no shortage of high profile guests at the White House,' he writes
*Cunnane reveals Obama's obsession with golf was a nightmare for press wranglers who had to block them from nabbing a photo of him playing rounds
*'A duffed chip or missed putt could draw out trite, stretched analogies to a failed policy or flawed rollout from a bored press pool,' Cunnane writes
*Obama also caused a frenzy when he left the White House for a coffee run without the press pool
*The former press wrangler told how the president's style improved over time since at times he wore' unusually tight sweatpants and sandals with white socks'
By Caroline Howe For Dailymail.com
Published: 09:41 EDT, 10 April 2018 | Updated: 11:40 EDT, 10 April 2018
... Writer Pat Cunnane signed on as a White House press staffer in February 2011 and stepped inside the presidential bubble of the world's biggest superstar.
With the frequently visiting stars, Cunnane coined the phrase, 'Got that sun in your eyes,' which means '"behaving different due to proximity to someone or something deemed cool," something that happened more than I could have imagined', he writes in his upcoming book, West Winging It: An Un-presidential Memoir, published by Gallery Books. ...
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