Posted on 12/28/2008 7:25:20 AM PST by Joiseydude
HONOLULU – The media glare, the constant security appendage and the sheer production that has become a morning jog or a hankering for an ice cream cone – it’s been closing in on Barack Obama for some time.
Now the president-elect appears increasingly conscious of the confines of his new position, bristling at the routine demands of press coverage and beginning to chafe at boundaries that are only going to get smaller.
Obama even took the unusual step Friday morning of leaving behind the pool of reporters assigned to follow him, taking his daughters to a nearby water park without them. It was a breach of longstanding protocol between presidents (or presidents-elect) and the media, that a gaggle of reporters representing television, print and wire services is with his motorcade at all times.
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Not too late to back out Barry.
gang-bangers & mall-rats everywhere are going to have to develop a “new look”. Can’t be dressing like “da Man”, you know!
May it only get worse for the Socialist Messiah and his shrew.
WTF is with the &%#@ing skull cap?
He’s still a person even if we disagree with his politics. Personally, I despise the media circus. I know it comes with the job, but it doesn’t mean he has to sacrifice all privacy with his family to satisfy the insatiable appetites of the media hounds.
It’s no wonder to me that many good people never run for office because they don’t want to go through this sort of media scrutiny.
Boxers or briefs, right?
It’s not a skull cap, it’s a baseball cap turned around thug style.
A couple of snorts of cocaine and he’ll be fine...
Actually, I sympathize with him on this score. The media hordes would drive anyone insane. I always laugh when I see or read about one of them getting popped by some celeb.
Would rather see a 6x8 prison cell closing in around him.
Wait....I thought he was “Mr. Cool” and that nothing bothers him?
He can always go home to Kenya.
Perhaps, as with his role model Kim Jong-Il, spotting our Dear Leader will become an obsession among the national media.
Gee, I did not know about the Gaggle of Idiots (reporters) that followed the motorcade everywhere. . . and I so wanted to know about the 12 grain bread he ordered as his sandwich . . I really needed to know that.
kitchen = heat
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