(CNN) - After a nearly two-year campaign for the White House, Barack Obama is likely to spend his first day as president-elect out of view from the public.
He will not hold a press conference, campaign aides told CNN, though he is expected to hold one by the end of the week. Obama had joked with reporters earlier this week he would talk to them on Wednesday, though aides quickly said that was not likely.
Instead, Obama will meet with key advisors and begin making decisions about his transition team, including who will serve as his White House chief of staff. Reports say Obama is close to naming Illinois Rep. Rahm Emanuel to that post, but that has not been confirmed.
UPDATE: According to the pool report, Obama appears to be staying away from cameras. A scheduled photo-op with his family did not happen, and the president-elect did not take his daughters to school, as Obama aides had suggested he would.
He was spotted making a trip to the gym, and he briefly waved to reporters as his car went by.
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YES WE DID!!!!
Congrats President Elect Obama!
Mr. President, God Bless You...America and the world are so very lucky to have you....
Yeah, I think this guy deserves a day off.
Congratulations Mr. President. You deserve some rest.
Let's give he and his family some long deserved time together. He has earned this rest. I hope all will respect his family, especially his children, whose lives are forever changed by this election. I told my kids as they left for school today, that their work has just begun...to be peacemakers and uniters...not dividers. The country has spoken and it is up to each and every one of us, no matter which party, to get to the work at hand. United we must all stand.
God please continue to bless and keep Barack safe. AMEN!!
God Help Us All.
He will stay out of view for a long time. This won't be the accessable president you wanted. He will only be available for special interest groups and anyone looking for a hand-out.
1984 has begun and his supporters love being sheep. Free thought is histoire. Go read that book and see the scary parallels. Oh wait, you are too busy watching American Idol and voting as such.
Some pundits say that Barack was elected because it was a "Perfect Storm" of events that put an A.A. in the White House... It was more like a train wreck. With the Economy train barrelling down on the wrong track, with the Iraq War train speeding in at $10B dollars per month, with the job loss train running out of control... a train wreck occurred on Penn Avenue. After the wreck, there was a lowly young energetic community organizer there to pick up the pieces of emotions and lives left in the rubble. If nothing else, Barack the community organizer, now has the largest community in the world. He's very good at organizing people, to come together for the common good of the common man. I believe this is the skillset that he will need to put America back on the right track.
There is hope for us, America!
He probably needs a nap.
A proud American I have always been. Today we can all turn the page to a renewed future. Pride in America is GREATER THAN EVER. OUR VOTES PROVE, "WE CAN"! Today is the first day for the rest of our
Journey.Building Dreams, Building Hope. It feels good to be proud.
I woke today more scared that having Bush as President. Bush is not the brightest President ever, his mistakes have all been through his inability to understand politics. McCain didn't deserve to win, but Obama is scary. He is hailed as the black Kennedy. We know that Kennedy wasn't so great after all and look at what happened to him. I think Obama may turn out to be the worst thing for everyone, not just Americans. He has too many secrets and you can bet many people will be digging deep to find them.
»HISTORY!HISTORY!OOH!
Both Obama and McCain need to take a day off to exhale, recharge their batteries a little bit and spend QUALITY time with their families and loved ones.
Then the president-elect will need to start thinking about how he'll make his campaign come to fruition. John McCain is free to become John McCain again. I have faith that McCain will re-emerge as the man that he once was before the advisors tried to make him something other than what he was. He still has something to contribute.
I voted for Obama and am happy that he will have the opportunity to bring his vision to the process. But I also hope he is sleeping in today. He earned it.
Congrats Mr. President-elect...you earned it.
wow!
This is amazing... still cant believe it actually happend in some ways and I've been watching the numbers for months.
The very act of ellecting him has the potential to change our national perspective. And I think he will be a good president, better than most in recent history.
I hope he involves Biden in developing a course on Iraq – he had great ideas on how to leave Iraq with the potential to cure itself.
I think marc ambinder at the atlantic was going over the likely choices for Obama chief of staff.
Enjoy some peace and quite for now... rest up because we are counting on you to change the country and along with that the world!
Congratulations President Obama!!!
As a white American I can say I am so happy that Barack Obama won. He and Michelle give us hope for a United America. Hope for a better future though it will take alot of work. Lets stand together and work hard to get our America back on track. I don't look at America as color or race I look at America as we need to stand together. Tha pasted is over the future is here! Things in the USA can only get better!! Thank you for your light.
Congratulations to the U.S.A.! You finally broke through the racial divide and have made progress. Congratulations to Sen., oops, President-Elect Obama! We look forward to better relations with the U.S. which can only come with an Obama Administration. I can't wait for the Inaugural Address and the next 8 years!
Let the cronyism begin...
AMERICA HAS BEEN RE-BORN!!!
Congratulations President-elect Obama!!! Congratulations to all how worked tirelessly volunteering the behalf of his campaign!!
Yes we did!!!
@Greg....
The American people voted for Obama....that's how he won!!!
One word: WOW! I'm still overwhelmed and thrilled with this victory for America. This white, middle aged, proud Army Mom is so happy to see Americans vote for change. I wouldn't blame Barack (or McCain either, for that matter) if he spent Wednesday collapsed with his family, sitting around in his jammies!! I'm glad he's getting to work quickly and I'm impressed he canceled the fireworks last night because of the economic situation. Now, let's talk about the millions which will be spent on the inauguration....I vote we swear him in on live TV in the East Room, and save the money whether it's public or private.
I am very happy of the turnout , just think how it would be if todd got in there