This Boerner guy seems to be kind of smarmy. Maybe narcissistic like his roomy, and looking for approval. The tone is, as you said "creepy". I also get the impression that 0bama ditched him when arranging the 2nd apartment.
Probably because middle class, white boy Boerner was neither Marxist professor, structural feminist, punk-rock performance poet nor well-versed in neocolonialism, euro-centrism and patriarchy. What a bore!