It angers me that a timed, planned and paid smearing campaign is run against me in the press.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The press may hate me, and I know my battles with them are not over, but that doesn't matter.
In the heat of our campaigns, we have all become accustomed to a little anger and exaggeration. Yet, on the whole, our political process has served us well.
I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.
I truly have a love-hate thing with the press.
The problem with smear campaigns is that too often they work.
I know politics is emotionally brutal; I've already had experience with the reality of smear campaigns, so I understand there will not be a path of roses laid before me.
I love the press; I even like the people that don't like me. If it wasn't for those people, no one would know who I was and I wouldn't have a gig.
The British press has been unfair to me and the public has followed.
Presidential campaigns are exhausting. Once they're over, we all heave a sigh of relief that we have our lives back, the constant emails and news reports no longer harangue us, and the topic even turns at times to something else entirely.
I look forward to these confrontations with the press to kind of balance up the nice and pleasant things that come to me as president.