Obama Stages ANOTHER News Conference

I wonder if Barack Obama will take Thanksgiving Day off.

EVERY DAY he's out there standing at his podium adorned with his "The Office of the President-Elect" sign.

What is he doing? Practicing to be president? Trying to get comfortable? Are these rehearsals? What?
The latest from "The Office of the President-Elect":

As he unveiled another component of his strategy to lift America out of its worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, President-elect Barack Obama pushed back Wednesday when he was asked if he is recycling too many Washington insiders into his new economic team.

"I suspect the American people would be troubled if I selected a treasury secretary or a chairman of an economic council at one of the most critical economic times in our history who had no experience in government whatsoever," Obama said at a news conference to announce former Federal Reserve Chairman Paul Volcker would head a new economic advisory board.

"What we're going to do is combine experience with fresh thinking," Obama said. "We need people who will be able to hit the ground running,"

Volcker, 81, will head Obama's Economic Recovery Advisory Board, which will advise him on ways to create jobs and bring stability to the ailing financial system. He is just one of many familiar names in Washington whom Obama ias tapped to join the next administration.

The board's top staff official will be Austan Goolsbee, a University of Chicago economist and longtime Obama adviser.

Former President Jimmy Carter named Volcker Fed chairman in 1979, a time of high inflation and high unemployment. Volcker, who chaired the Fed until 1987, helped tame inflation by raising interest rates, despite intense opposition by some in Congress.

Volcker's moves helped plunge the economy into recession in the short-term, but he was later credited with reviving the economy by getting inflation under control.

Obama held his third news conference in as many days, a remarkable burst of public activity for the president-elect, who has sought to assure nervous consumers and financial markets that he will bring swift economic relief after Jan. 20.

Volcker is 81. He makes John McCain look positively youthful.

I didn't realize that Obama was planning to have a retro-administration. What's his theme song going to be? "Everything Old is New Again"?

Don't throw the past away
You might need it some rainy day
Dreams can come true again
When everything old is new again

I really think Obama should let up on these daily news conferences. It makes him look silly, too eager, unpresidential.

He should be more dignified, show some self-control, and wait his turn to be president.

Obama is not the president. He is not the commander-in-chief. He should take it down a notch. That sign has got to go.

These daily news conferences are odd, given that he avoided official press conferences like the plague during the final weeks of the campaign.

I would not be surprised if Obama's place at the Thanksgiving table tomorrow is marked with his "Office of the President-Elect" sign. Seriously.