From Ball Handler to Obama’s Handler

Barack Obama has been criticized for his relationships with his controversial former pastor, Jeremiah Wright, and the 1960s radical, William Ayers. But Obama is directly linked to another figure who, at least in North Carolina, is far more nefarious: a Duke Blue Devil.

Reggie Love, a former basketball player and football player at Duke, is Obama’s chief body man on the campaign trail. He spends most hours of most days with Obama, Media General’s Sean Mussenden reports. Love (pictured above) stays busy:

He makes sure that Obama gets up on time in the morning, gets in the shower and has breakfast. He makes sure he has his daily briefing books and list of fundraisers or super delegates to call that day. He makes sure he gets to bed at night.

In between, he does a thousand other tasks that busy presidential candidates cannot do for themselves.

Love insists that he didn’t meet a single person during North Carolina’s primary who held it against Obama that he hired a Dukie. Click here for the full profile from today’s Journal.