LOL - Obama "I call myself a dancing bear," he jokes of his campaign life."

[Pirate Smile]

"I call myself a dancing bear," he jokes of his campaign life. "They let me out of my cage. I do my dance. They let me back in my cage. They feed me occasionally. They let me work out. And every once in awhile I break lose, before they get the tranquilizers." '

Obama the Dancing Bear?

March 01, 2008 9:24 PM

ABC News' Sunlen Miller reports: Aboard Barack Obama's press plane, the senator strolled back and chatted casually with the press corp somewhere in the air between Providence, R.I., and Cleveland, Ohio.

Obama spoke of the rigors of being a candidate in the limelight and of a campaign trail that he’s said has been significantly harder since the Iowa caucus in early January.

"I call myself a dancing bear," he jokes of his campaign life. "They let me out of my cage. I do my dance. They let me back in my cage. They feed me occasionally. They let me work out. And every once in awhile I break lose, before they get the tranquilizers."

The senator, whose last day off was Valentine's Day, said that doing the consummate candidate’s photo opt of kissing babies on the ropeline makes his day.

"Although I’m worried about the parents ... passing them over like it’s a mosh pit," Obama laughed and demonstrated parents passing babies with their arms outstretched high.

Obama confirmed that that he has never dropped a child in these situations.

"I suspect that would not be good for the vote totals," he said. "I can see that on Youtube."

The father of two talked about missing his own children, and told the story how his oldest daughter, Malia, had recently been Betsy Ross in a school presentation. He recalled how she told him, "I had to do this like 40 times, I just kept saying the same thing over and over again" to which Obama said he can relate.

"I said it’s like running for president," he said.

Obama said that he wouldn’t be running if his children -- 9 and 6 years old -- were in their teenage years.

"Parents are embarrassing enough, right?" the candidate said.

The dancing bear campaigns throughout Ohio this weekend before heading back to Texas on Monday.

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2008/03/obama-the-danci.html

The most recent example I can think of where he broke out of his cage:

Obama's Visit to the Border

SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS -- Barack Obama took a break from the usual campaigning today, making a stop at the Texas-Mexico border and a local neighborhood festival. He was in the southern Texas town of Brownsville, courting Hispanic voters and addressing issues affecting the community.

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Obama and Texas state representative Eddie Lucio, made a brief stop at Hope Park, where they stood near the bank of the Rio Grande River and looked across the Texas-Mexico border. Reporters asked Obama if he had ever been to the border before.

"This is the first time that I've been this close here, in Texas. I've been in Mexico when I was in college and was going to school in Southern California. I can't entirely talk about it," Obama joked.

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/02/29/politics/fromtheroad/entry3895117.shtml?CMP=OTC-RSSFeed&source=RSS&attr=FromTheRoad_3895117

He broke free - where are the tranquilizer guns!

I love his sense of humor!:loveya: