Barack Obama loves the cameras, when he has a prepared speech. This whole question and answer thing is another story. The video below is proof of his accessibility to the media over the past year.

Barack Obama has held almost daily press conferences since his {cringe} election. He walks out to stand behind his podium that proudly proclaims ‘The Office of the President-Elect’. That’s probably the first new office to be created by the proponents of huge bureaucracy. The man behind ‘The Office of the President Elect’ stands before the press corp and tells them whatever is on his mind that day. Usually he lets them know which former Clinton appointee is now in the Obama inner circle.

He seems to have started his Presidential acting a year or more ago. The problem now is that its not an act, but a reality. He hasn’t hesitated to give his vague and obscure opinion on whatever he wants, unless it is controversial and might cost him some political points. Hey, his own people said he didn’t have political courage.

Whenever there is an issue on which he doesn’t want to make a public statement, he disappears or says ‘there’s only one President at a time’. I’ve lost track of how often that has happened.

One look at the democratic party at the moment shows there is a decided lack of leadership within the party. Its in complete disarray.

My Cotillion sister, Mary Katherine Ham, compiled a summary of Obama’s ‘openness and transparency’ with the press corp over the last year. You know. Like one of those ‘the year in review’ kind of videos. I found it at another Cotillion sisters website, blatherings.

Enjoy ….