Every so often, we at Defamer offer our help in solving the mysteries that occasionally intersect with our readers' lives in the entertainment industry. Asks a curious operative:

I saw Senator Barack Obama at CAA [yesterday] afternoon in the lobby with some unidentified people. Can you help us figure this out?

We will freely admit that we have no idea why the distinguished gentleman from Illinois would be strolling through the House That Ovitz Built, unless it was to tour the CAA headquarters' state-of-the-art baby preparation facilities, perform a quick investigation of widely rumored human rights violations of the agency's assistants (though we suspect that he never wound have found the subterranean "mailroom" where underachieving call-rollers are chained together and told their only hope of escape is chewing off the arm of the person to whom they're shackled), or just petitioning Hollywood's most feared agency for a walk-on role in the next Will Ferrell movie. If anyone has the answer, let us know and we'll share it with the world.

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