Well someone has to start it. We know from the primaries and from the general campaign that Obama is cool, until he’s cornered and has to answers real questions. This doesn’t bode well for him for the next four years as he can’t keep Youtubing Saturday Fireside Chats until 2012.

The Politico notes that he’s beginning to feel the walls closing in.

“The Obama family has become increasingly aware of the cameras and the lack of privacy that comes with the presidency.

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.

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.”

Remember this?

and this?

And remember that after Hamas endorsed him, he had no time to comment, he had waffles to tackle.

This is going to be good.