It either came across as condescending and rude, or as a young junior Senator from Illinois trying to act as though one of the lions of the Senate should pay him heed.
He screwed up by calling him “Jim” once,I thought that was the first Gaffe.
Right, and that was part of the "John" tactic as well - - to try to make Obama look like an old familiar hand in the United States Senate rather than a first-term junior Senator who has actually only "worked" in the Senate for about 140 days.