Obama and Biden's Early Architecture Dreams and What That Might Mean

As if this writer needed any more reason to look forward to the upcoming Presidential administration, we just learned a little bit more about Barack Obama and Joe Biden from the Tribune‘s Blair Kamin: they both wanted to be architects if they hadn’t gotten into politics. Sure, that doesn’t mean so much, as people say a lot of things about their career plans, particularly when they’re children, like where Obama’s architecture dreams stemmed (this writer is personally still waiting for his invitation to become an astronaut and/or flying dinosaur).