Obama Grows More Irritated by the Press Every Day

 One thing that I have noticed about president-elect Obama since he won last November is how short he can be at times with the press and this article talks about that.

 I don’t fault him for that, I imagine the press can be overbearing and obnoxious but the truth is that Obama should have realized that this was coming and he is just going to have to get used to it. He has come a long way in four years; from a political nobody to the president-elect. This could just be a small example of what people talk about when they say that he wasn’t ready to be president.

 There are many reasons why Obama wasn’t ready to be president and his apologists will say that he has surrounded himself with insiders to protect against his political inadequacies. His detractors; that these insiders are proof that Obama is politics as usual. But that is off topic, he also wasn’t ready for the strangling media onslaught.

 This could be an issue that nobody can help him cope with. He may have to come to grips with this issue on his own. He has skyrocketed to political stardom probably faster than anyone in American history and with this success comes certain responsibilities aside the ones of the office. Aside from his political agenda and worldly issues comes a responsibility to the press. All presidents have dealt with it, Obama must also.

Obama will be scrutinized by both the public and the press and he is going to have to learn to deal with it properly. Did he just assume that once he became president every one in the press would simply back down?

 Part of this is the fault of the media itself. Other than blogs and websites Obama was given a free pass in the media during his whole campaign. Most likely he thought that it would continue. And really, he still is getting a honeymoon. The press isn’t critical of Obama, they are just relentless. They are starved for everything Obama. It comes with the territory, it’s in the job description.

 President-elect Obama has lost certain freedoms- the freedom to be spontaneous with his family for example, and he is not coping with it well. At least not yet. But it isn’t going to get any easier, in fact it will get harder as time goes on and he has made difficult polity decisions.

 One has to ask, did Obama realize what he was getting himself into when he decided to run for president? Did he just do it on a whim? And does he regret it at all?

 I know that I would.