Adam Nagourney of the New York Times on his experience with Obama:

“I’ve never had an experience like this, with this campaign or others,” Nagourney tells me. “I thought they crossed the line. If you have a problem with a story I write, call me first. I’m a big boy. I can handle it. But they never called. They attacked me like I’m a political opponent.” So much for “Obama Love.” That’s the title of John McCain’s new web ad, which strings together clips of cable news pundits gushing over Obama like besotted teens. This romance has been a prominent story line of Obama’s entire campaign, and clearly elements of it are true: “I felt this thrill going up my leg,” Chris Matthews crows in one clip flagged in the ad. But scratch the surface, and you’ll find a lot of mixed feelings behind the Obama “love.” Reporters are grumbling more and more that the campaign is acting like the Prom Queen. They gripe that it is “arrogant” and “control[ling],” and the campaign’s own belief that Obama is poised to make history isn’t endearing, either. The press certainly helped Obama get so far so fast; the question is, how far can he get if his campaign alienates them?

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Of course, there’s more than a little of the jilted ex-favorite in McCain’s lamentation of the media’s love for Obama. But Obama’s thin-skinnedness, smugness, easily-wounded sense of entitlement, self-aggrandizing sense of destiny, all should be familiar to anybody who remembers the Clinton administration — especially the people who were there. (Clinton was even the “first black president.”) Obama is giving every indication that he is a purely political animal, a gifted rhetorician (as Clinton was) but ultimately in it for the game. When he joked with reporters earlier this week that every event is a campaign event, he might have been telling a deeper truth.

It took a long time, and a National Enquirer scoop (amplified by Drudge) to shake the press out of its infatuation with Bill Clinton. One suspects that it’s going to be even more difficult to get the media to sober up on the subject of Barack Obama.