No Jury Duty For Obama

By Marcus Gilmer in News on Jan 23, 2010 5:15PM

It's a shame, really. Karl had just whipped up some nifty guidelines to surviving jury duty and lo and behold, none other than the Commander in Chief comes up due to serve. It seems, though, he's going to opt out of his civic duty, playing the "I'm the leader of the Free World" card. How convenient. Of course, we kid. Trying to fix the economy and solve the health care crisis certainly do trump a day in a Cook County courthouse holding room. A source told the Sun-Times' Michael Sneed, "The president won't be expected to show up, but I'm sure he has already received his summons and responded. The jury summons contains his Kenwood address and is for a jury trial on Monday." We accept his excuse but vow to take our jury duty assignment seriously the next time one of us comes up. If it's good enough for Mr. T...