An troubling pattern of behavior by the new president is taking place in stonewalling members of the press. Two pieces appeared today. One in the Politico and another in the American Thinker.

He spent much of the transition period not taking questions frok members of the media. Now it seems reporters are called ahead of time before pressers.

The mask is coming down early. Obama enjoyed the adulation from those who swooned at his rhetorical skills which included the media. His centrist’s soothings are even now falling down with his demand that Israel open its borders with Gaza.

A noteworthy British columnist asked aloud prior to the election if America was really going to do this. Obama’s actions thus far are lurching politically left, but his stealth suppression of the media is chilling.

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You really didn’t think that CNN and MSNBC and the rest of the gang were going to cover whats really happening in Gaza, did you?

Roger Simon of Pajamas Media says to use ynet

According to Diskin, “The Hamas leadership abroad is stressed, working to obtain a ceasefire and disappointed by the Arab countries failing to stand by its side. The situation of the leadership in Gaza is similar. A real threat exists today on the Hamas enterprise in the Gaza Strip. The leaderships in Gaza and abroad feel an existential threat.”

IDF Chief of Staff Gabi Ashkenazi said that more than 400 Palestinians had been killed in the operation so far, most of them Hamas men. “Not much is left from the Hamas govern

It appears that the IDF has learned lots of lessons. There’s a relative calm about western response. The silence of Bush and Obama for that matter serve as endorsements of the campaign which may well be toppling Hamas. Europe and the UN have been strangely slow to respond and have appeared at times to be lukewarm in condeming Israel.

if Hamas were expecting to be bailed out by someone, its too late now.

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We were told that Barack Obama’s trip to the war zone, Israel and Europe would bolster him with voters at home. It didn’t. So here’s why by Obama himself:

Heading home from an overseas trip aimed at strengthening his foreign policy credentials, Sen. Barack Obama said Saturday he’s not counting on an immediate political boost and thinks it’s just as likely he’ll experience a short-term dip in polls simply because he’s been out of the country for nine days.

“The reason that I thought this trip was important was I am convinced that many of the issues that we face at home are not going to be solved as effectively unless we have strong partners abroad,” Obama said, speaking outside 10 Downing Street after his private meeting with Prime Minister Gordon Brown.

Thats rich.

So you were expecting that you would be hurt somehow? Or that it would provide no benefit? Really now?

Then why in sam hill did you go in the first place? Wasn’t it because you wanted to seem more in touch with foreign policy and put voters more at ease? Wouldn’t this have manifested itself in the polling data?

Obama now is averaging more than one gaffe and slip-up dialy. Yesterdays revelation that he called wounded soldiers on the phone after taking the heat for not going was making a mistake and attemping to correct it by making a worse one. Talk about transparent.

Now today he’s saying that they believed the trip wasn’t expected to help politically prior to going. And the day’s not over yet.

H/T: Lucianne Goldberg

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