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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.*snip*All presidents and would-be presidents struggle with “the bubble†– the security detail and the always-there reporters that impose barriers to any spontaneous interaction with the outside world.But Obama seems to be struggling particularly hard, particularly early.As rapid as Obama’s political rise has been, so too has his family’s introduction to the bubble.
