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Obama bristles as the bubble closes in on him
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1208/16882.html ^ | 12/28/08 | CAROL E. LEE

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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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Hawaii
KEYWORDS: angrydems; bho2008; gangstaprez; hi2008; obama; obamatransitionfile; poser; poseur
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To: Joiseydude

Hey, i’ve got an idea: why don’t you resign, Hussein? Then it’ll all be okay.

Of course, we’ll have Crazy Joe Biden as President, but he can be persuaded to do the right thing—he’s a nutcase liberal, but not a fledgling Marxist like you are.

So do the right thing: just quit now.


121 posted on 12/28/2008 5:24:13 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: angkor

I agree: the press are swine. And Hussein used them to get elected. May they now make life miserable for him.

But they won’t. After a few weeks or months, their bosses will have a “Come To Mohammed” meeting with Hussein’s bosses.

And the press will become even more like lapdogs than they are now. It’ll be almost like North Korea.


122 posted on 12/28/2008 5:26:01 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: CitizenUSA

Live by the press, die by the press.
The only reason he will be POTUS is because the press was on it’s knees for him from the beginning.


123 posted on 12/28/2008 5:31:11 PM PST by Kozak (USA 7/4/1776 to 1/20/2009 Requiescat In Pace)
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To: F15Eagle

Yep, it looks like a muslim beanie to me too.


124 posted on 12/28/2008 5:31:38 PM PST by prairiebreeze (Our home unapologetically celebrates the birth of Jesus.)
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To: Joiseydude

I don’t feel sorry for him in the slightest. He ought to try being President Bush for one day. President Bush is not in my high esteem as he once was, but the man has taken hit after hit by the lefties and their accomplices in the media, and I never heard him whine in 8 years. This metrosexual isn’t even President yet, has a butt licking media, and is already bellyaching. How’s he going to hold up under greater pressure? BO is a snob, a wimp, and a whiner. I don’t care how much he shows his (hairless) chest, he’s not a real man in my book.


125 posted on 12/28/2008 8:40:53 PM PST by beaversmom
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To: Joiseydude
LOL he gets no sympathy form me. He loved the attention when he was campaigning, to the point of it being sickening. He wants to be President then he needs to learn this is part of it.


What the heck is he going to do, put up yet another website saying the media won't leave him alone??! hahaha

126 posted on 12/28/2008 10:22:10 PM PST by Katarina (Democrats hate our Constitution, America and our Military.)
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To: Katarina

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127 posted on 12/28/2008 10:26:49 PM PST by Katarina (Democrats hate our Constitution, America and our Military.)
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To: CitizenUSA

True, but this guy has tried harder and in more outlandish, attention-getting ways than any other. Tens of thousands for his Berlin speech, the colliseum speech at the convention, Grant Park on election night, pressers nesrly every day for weeks, barechested photos on Christmas vacation (and August vacation too)...


128 posted on 12/28/2008 11:19:10 PM PST by PghBaldy (http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2008/12/23/article-1100584-02DFEFB3000005DC-585_233x423.jpg)
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To: PghBaldy

How true that is. He loves the spotlight, or did. I hope they drive him bonkers.


129 posted on 12/28/2008 11:42:50 PM PST by Kara1000
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To: DogBarkTree

Yep. I added it to my tagline cause it is so telling. Add that to his flippin the bird to Hillary & McCain, and brushing the dirt off his shoulders like that rapper.


130 posted on 12/28/2008 11:58:45 PM PST by PghBaldy (Obama showing off his crotch: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=550_1210277599)
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To: Rome2000

He also used untold millions of FOREIGN donors to propel him to his position. It was done on purpose, of that I am sure. He has run the crookedest campaign (dollar-wise) so far. He has conducted foreign policy at odds with the current President, lied, then his campaign has backtracked and admitted it. He has cavorted with enemies of this nation before, during and after the election...


131 posted on 12/29/2008 12:02:41 AM PST by PghBaldy (Obama showing off his crotch: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=550_1210277599)
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To: Kara1000

I could sympathize if it was for his kids... those are the ones I feel badly for. Tey are too young for this. If nothing else, I hope he can keep them shielded. They have no idea what is in store for them, and are too young to make the decision. He and Michelle? I hope there are telephoto lenses on them 24/7


132 posted on 12/29/2008 12:12:49 AM PST by PghBaldy (Obama showing off his crotch: http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=550_1210277599)
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