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" On the light blue tie hijacked by Obama for his 2004 convention speech (Chicago Tribune, Nov. 16, 2008), "I work the referees if they're unfair or inaccurate. Barack Obama's Press Secretaries. HuffPost's top politics stories, straight to your inbox. [2] Gibbs had worked with Obama since 2004 and previously served as the communications director for then-Senator Obama and his campaign during the 2008 presidential election. Gibbs was constantly with Obama over the next two years as he began laying the groundwork for a presidential bid. I took a seat next to her on the couch. President Barack Obama does a fist bump with Ethan Gibbs, the son of Press Secretary Robert Gibbs Credit: Photo: AFP/GETTY Scientists have suggested we adopt fistbumps rather than. As befits a Southerner, he shares with the President-Elect a love for college football. It was my last day of campaigning. "He was a political junkie at 17. [14] For his involvement in this group, Gibbs was criticized during the Obama presidential campaign by some left leaning bloggers. He also worked for the Miami Herald during his print journalism career. Gibbs majored in political science at North Carolina State University, and got his start in politics in 1991 as an intern for former Rep. Glen Browder, D-Ala. Gibbs' wife, Mary Catherine Gibbs, is an attorney in Alexandria, Va. "I didn't have a lot of money, so all I could afford was Gibbs," kidded the president. Gibbs, meanwhile, was tracking news from the battleground states, reporting that turnout appeared to be shattering records across the country, creating problems in some polling places as voters waited four or five hours to cast their ballots. Afterwards, Gibbs frequently told reporters and political associates that he and others around Obama kept expecting the popularity to ebb, but it never did. In 1989, he graduated from Auburn High School and headed to North Carolina State University to major in political science. Josh Earnest, left, appears with White House press secretary Jay Carney in May 2014. They don't just appear magically on their own. Aude Guerrucci/AFP. The switch will allow Mr Gibbs, 39, to spend more time with his wife, Mary, and their seven-year-old son, Ethan. I passed the rear of a small Shinto temple and community center, then rows of wooden homes broken up by the occasional three-story concrete apartment building. In his communications role, Gibbs became known as "the enforcer" because of his aggressive rapid-response methods for countering disinformation tactics from opponents. "This was the longest primary campaign in the history of the Democratic party," Moran told the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette in August. I laughed, realizing my daughter was right; save for our motorcade, the six lanes in both directions were completely empty. Nicole Gibbs. She worked on the national campaign staff of Tom Harkin's 1992 presidential campaign. Obama's speech to the Democratic National Convention that year sent his fame and popularity skyrocketing.