"DAAAAADDDDDYYYYYYYY, PLEEEEAAAASE!"

Parents of little girls will immediately understand how it happened that the PE's staff appear to have misled the press pool, which is supposed to follow him everywhere, that there would be no more news today. The terse report that went out this afternoon from pool members to the rest of the media:

Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt issued the following statement to your pool: "With no further scheduled events for the day, a lid was called until further notice. The President-elect decided to take the girls to a water park and we assembled the pool as quickly as possible."