I remember the press being kept at a distance during previous presidential vacations, and I distinctly recall the road block a half mile from Bush’s Crawford Ranch. Photo ops were always provided as a matter of courtesy, but I don’t remember ANYTHING like the last Obama in Hawaii orgy. Sounds like they want a redux to pump up the boy president’s numbers.
Pics of him enjoying an expensive long vacation while many have a hard candy Christmas, won’t help ZERO.
Last year in Hawaii the press corp wasn’t given much access to the President...same with Martha’s Vinyard this summer. Paparazzi got those famed shirtless obama photos:
http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/12/22/paparazzi_photog_gets_a_pec-ta.html?wprss=the-trail