And oh yeah, now he's presidential candidate Barack Obama's director of communications and one of his senior strategists, part of a tight-knit group of advisers who keep Obama on track.
"His job title is a little deceptive," notes Newsweek Magazine. "Gibbs,who is officially in charge of Obama's message machine and responsible for the care and feeding of reporters,spends much of his time doing something else: he is Obama's traveling counselor and sometime court jester."
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