I'll give him this one. People get tired of the whole world looking at them. Of course, this is no where near as bad as the Oval Office if history is our guide. Look at the photos of any winner going in and at the end.

Do note he had a vacation while Hillary kept campaiging. Medical studies suggest women are sturdier under pressure.

A real story would be film of what is actually going on in the caucuses. We read rumors here but no film so far. How bad is it?

Secret service should have pounded the guy. He only wanted the photo to sell on EBAY. Jerk.

Sam,
This article was about the irritability of Obama and you try to change the subject to Hillary. Nice try. We've already heard Obama's surrogates trying to take an ELITIST position by saying the race should end before all the voters have had their say.

Like Bill Clinton says, stop the moaning. The race is just getting started. Just because you guys came racing out like a rabbit doesn't mean that you will win at the finish line. If you do need some rest, though, feel free to take a nap. You are sooooo far ahead its unreal.
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Obama got $250,000!
Rezko gets jail!
Obama is an ELITIST from Harvard!

An empty suit pitted against a bag of hot air. Tough choice!

I agree with you, WestCoastMessenger... This article was about the irritability of Obama and to try to change the subject to Hillary.... Also, it does not matter whether that man was going to sell the pic on eBay or not! Perhaps many other people have done that?!? That's not the point. The point is that he's very elitist and cranky! We don't need him as president....

You can pretend things for so long! I think Sen. Obama is worn out by being somedbody that he's really not! And you can do something like that for only for a while and your real personilty is going to poke through your disguise! Sen. Barak Obama was made by the same cookie-cutter that was used by David Axelrod to make Gov. Duval Patrick of Massachusetts. CHANGE and HOPE were the same slogans that Duval Patrick used; and there's nothing new in Barak Obama's campaign. All the stuff about hope and change were re-cycled and reconstituted by political fixes from Chicago David Axelrod and David Plouff for the manipulation of American voters! We know Sen. Obama even used Duval Patrick's speeches─ lifting them word for word! If you really want to find out what's happening with "CHANGE" lately, you should look in to what's going on with Barak Obama's carbon-copy Duval Patrick and how he’s doing in Massachusetts!

Ridiculous...you use ONE example of a harassing individual after 13 months of meeting thousands and thousands of people. What is Obama superhuman? Your report shows no journalistic integrity.

How does one instance with an aggressive individual requiring secret service intervention somehow show "wear and tear" of a candidate. C'mon, either this is a rather blatant attempt to somehow show that Obama can get annoyed or shows a bias against him, either way, ridiculous!

You listed an article from a month ago??Wow, I smell desperation in the air.

White people, black people, hispanics, asians, native americans.....all people in this country, have no reason to fear Barack Obama. Again people, he is running for President of the United States of America, not just a few states or a particular race of people. This is about leadership and vision.
There is absolutely no reason for fear, as he will work on bringing the country back together, try to end this war as carefully as possible, and bring our troops home.
And if you want to continue to harp about Rev Wright, try looking at the complete sermons from the most 'offensive' comments, or the ones that Fox, and some of the other news channels, showed over and over and over again. There is a lot of truth, but no hate there.
Oh, and charleschaplin, Obama sat down after March 4th, with the Chicago Tribune and answered every question they asked regarding Rezko....every one. They did their final news story on it....you should google it and read.
And the canadians finally told their story: the actual wink/nod came from the clinton campaign, not Obama. But that story was buried days after the March 4th primaries.

Mariann, when did he copy all of his speeches?
It was well known that he used 2 or 3 lines from Deval Patrick, not an entire speech. Using one word, hope, does not an entire speech make!
C'mon people, you're grasping at straws now.

As polls show Obama rapidly closing on Hiliary in PA and running away with it in NC, the Pantsuited One's most ardent supporters start squealing incoherently, spewing non-sensical, unsubstantiated arguments and recycling shopworn, discredited slurs.

Thank goodness it will be over soon. Licking their rhetorical wounds, our weary gas-bag warriors will finally be able to crawl back to their Barco-loungers, where they will doubtless enjoy a really good sulk, rueing a world that doesn't appreciate their mean-spirited, myopic, and pitifully pointless views.

After all the grace Obama has shown in these past months, he had a bad day.

Newsworthy? Maybe.

Emblematic? Certainly not.

I've been in a few social situations with Barack 3 or 4 years ago. We both live on the southside. It was clear to me and many others in our neighborhood back then that Barack would be President. I never thought of having a picture taken with him...that is so weird. That guy had to be a nut.
Jim White

Ummmmm, Mariann, Presidents can't unite? We have a President that has torn a country apart....but we can't get one that will re-unite the country?

Granted, it will be a difficult task, but I believe he can do it. Even with people like you.

In the last exchange, Obama indicated the guy may have disrupted some talk, not shown on the video, with school children, and the guy claims, perhaps bogusly, that his wife was a teacher at the school. Sounds like there may be a little more context to this -- what's the story, ABC?

i'll take "non-stories that the media drums up on slow news days because they're too lazy or under-staffed to track down real news stories" for a thousand, alex.

what is this post?

I'm sorry, but where does it say a man has to be retained for pressure? If you consider flights and other bogus excuses, it's hard to argue. Obama may not rely on legends or other pop culture, but please, let's all "step back if you can't step forward"!

Autograph seeker or not...Obama did not handle this properly. He is such a chick. If he is bothered by this, then how is he to deal with a real threat. In fact, anything that would test his temperance, or lack thereof. Proud to vote for him? I think not!

so a paperazzo tries to push to get a picture, Obama refuses and it is a story? Seems to be he handled himself very well and even offered to give the picture, but they guy would not let up. I don't know anyone who is that patient about such agressiveness.

WHAT HAPPEN TO THE VAUNTED 'SECRET SERVICES'?

This STALKER guy is obviously unmannerly or a psycho or a sicko!

I agree with Charlie P. To me the only reason why Obama is besting Hillary right now is because he is the stronger woman. He's better at being a 'chick' than she is.