Press Buttering Up Obama Aides For Future Access: Politico

Press Buttering Up Obama Aides For Future Access: Politico

In the early days of any administration, reporters reach out to the men and women who might become their sources over the next four years -- then slather them with glowing profiles suitable for framing in their mothers' bedrooms.

Even garden-variety government officials become political superheroes, each one harder-working and more down-to-earth than the last -- and all of them enjoying the ear of the president.

Reading once again about Gibbs' folksy ways, his pastel ties and his Alabama roots, a part-time political junkie might question the need for yet another profile of the hard-working press secretary who's always within earshot when the president weighs a big decision.

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