That's what some are claiming after President Obama lauded Kamala Harris at a fundraiser in California as "by far, the best looking attorney general."

Well, actually nobody is claiming that yet but I couldn't resist the cheap, obvious pun, especially on such a lyrical spring afternoon.

At the very least, however, it was a bit cavalier of Obama, unprofessional and unbefitting of his high office and expensive threads, to turn the attorney generalship into a beauty pageant, though the president did compliment Harris's brilliance, toughness, and dedication before declaring her easy on the eyes, so her braininess got first billing, if you're scoring at home.

I am inclined to cut Obama slack--not that he deserves any, how dare he, he should know better, apologize already--because I once had lunch with Kamala Harris, something I mention often because frankly I'm running out of anecdotes and need to restock, and she indeed radiates star quality. She has a spring to her step even when she's sitting down. She was then District Attorney of San Francisco, a high-powered job as any reader of Dashiell Hammett can attest, and was on her way to Iowa to lend her support to presidential hopeful Barack Obama. As a Hillary supporter then, I considered the Obama candidacy a quixotic dress rehearsal for a future, more serious, candidacy, but didn't want to be a bad lunch guest by 'getting all political.' I donated money to her campaign for Attorney General of California, which she won (and was later reelected), confident in the prospect that she might be on the presidential ticket some day. I'm still confident, though I gather her speech at the 2012 Democratic Convention didn't quite make it out of the infield. But at least she wasn't up there knocking back a Big Gulp, like someone else I could mention.

The next time Kamala Harris has a fundraiser in New York I intend to go and renew our bond, after I remind her who I am. I've changed so much in the last few years, while retaining that inner glow that lights a path down the darkened hall.

Unrelated, I've been asked to "chime in" on the shock horror news that the actor playing Charlie is taking a premature hike from the third season of HBO's Girls, presumably because Lena Dunham has been going all Lucille Ball on the set and barking out orders with a nicotine rasp. I didn't watch season two of Girls but I've been given to misunderstand that Charlie was the one male character in the show who didn't have snot dribbling from his nose, or something else dribbing from somewhere else, if you know what I mean. Given those circumstances I can see why he would be missed, but there are plenty of good-looking young actors around and they should be able to find someone else who doesn't leak.