Published 12/29/2008
by Domenico Montanaro
at First Read
From NBC's Domenico Montanaro and Carrie DannThe Middle East crisis has inserted briefings and high-stakes phone conferences into Obama's otherwise tropical -- and apolitical, notes the Politico's Ben Smith -- vacation destination in Hawaii. But the president-elect continues to occasionally bristle at the constant presence of the "protective pool" within distant eyeshot of his family's comings and goings; over the weekend, he even left the press behind entirely on a visit to a local water park. ...( read more )
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