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.
He, and his family, are apparently really, really, really not enjoying the constant media coverage and intrusion in to their lives. What did he think was going to happen? And he has not even been inaugurated yet. Wait till next year, not that long, and it will get worse.
Not that I blame him for wanting a little bit of privacy, just a day at the water park, some ice cream, etc, but, the press comes with the job, especially when one was turned into The One, The Messiah, The Lightworker.
Welcome to what you ran for, buddy!
