Top of the Ticket  Political commentary from Andrew Malcolm
Poor Obama confronts a grueling day today  Violin and Bow to
make sad music for president obama  To hear President Obama tell
it, he's a sad fellow these days.  The problem, it seems, is
that he's president of the United States. "I miss being
anonymous," the melancholy man moaned to a few White House
visitors the other day.   The poor man, who turns 50 this
summer, does live with his mother-in-law. But he said he
especially misses Saturday mornings -- "rolling out of bed, not
shaving, getting into my car with my girls, driving to the
supermarket, squeezing the fruit, getting my car washed.”
Instead, Obama must endure 24-hour free room service, servants,
drivers, a giant....  ...helicopter, world travel, fawning
celebrities, never gasping at a whirling gas pump and getting a
salary that many of America's unemployed millions would take a
tiny fraction of if they could.     This is the big bucks
kickoff for what Obama aides gleefully predict will be