RSSThe Saga Continues – Does Obama Really Want To Be President?
J.J. Jackson | December 28, 2008
The question has been raised but outside of people actually taking notice and that care about America it has been getting little coverage. That question is does Barack Obama really want to be President or is he just more interested in playing President? Sure, Obama like every other liberal is long on rhetoric and short on useful solutions, but since just before election day the man has seemed far more content to be President without actually being President. He has even gone so far and to tell one reporter that it was not worth the reporter’s time to question him about his role in the Blagojavich scandal in Illinois where the story has morphed from Obama and his staff having no role to having no contact to Obama having no contact and being certain that his staff had no contact either to Obama having no contact but not so certain about his staff to Obama and his staff having contact but no role in deal making with the Governor.
It fits a pattern with Obama. He wants the power but not the spot light. He wants to control but not be questioned or scrutinized and reported on. Now he is getting antsy with the standard contingent of reporters that follow him around and will follow him around for the next four years.
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.
Then when reporters finally caught up with Obama at Koko Marina Paradise Deli and he acknowledged them for one of few times since arriving in Hawaii last Saturday, he sounded resigned.
After ordering a tuna melt on 12-grain bread, Obama approached reporters and placed his hand on the shoulder of pool reporter Philip Rucker of The Washington Post, who was scribbling away in his notebook.
“You don’t really need to write all that down,” Obama said.
Yes Mr. Rucker … “you REALLY don’t need to write all this down.” Not a suggestion, but a command. It just fits his personality of wanting to be in control of everything so very well.
Well Mr. Obama, you’re President now and there is a lot more to the job than standing on the mount and preaching to you mindless followers. Your every move will indeed be reported like it or not. One can only wonder how long it will be before the press corps yearn for the days of President Bush after a taste of Obama.
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