Obama Divides News Conference into Cubs and Sox Sections

The Chicago Tribune reports that President-Elect Barack Obama's news conference today announcing his financial team had sections for Cubs fan reporters and White Sox fan reporters.

"The announcement ceremony at the Chicago Hilton was arranged with a quirky Chicago flavor. Reporters were assigned seats in two sections, one to Obama's left designated the "Cubs" section and the other to his right designated "White Sox." Obama is a die-hard White Sox fan, but it was unclear whether he was favoring the reporters seated in that section."

After all that talk about healing the divided nation just like Lincoln did, what's up with this? Sounds like he wants to rumble.