Between Obama and the Press: [Robert] Gibbs, a journeyman campaign flack who had latched onto Barack Obama’s Senate race four years earlier and has been his chief spokesman ever since. [...]
As he prepares to become the White House spokesman, Gibbs is acutely aware that it will be harder to enforce discipline from the seat of government than from the seat of the campaign plane. And sure enough, the incoming administration has endured a leaky few weeks. The names of several cabinet nominees appeared in the media before they were announced or even finalized in some cases.
When I spoke to Obama by phone earlier this month, he said he was not surprised by this. “The transition involves an awful lot of people who don’t actually work for me,” he said.
