
Five people approach a security checkpoint near the Obama compound Monday carrying a gift of informational DVDs about the conflict, asking to deliver it to the president-elect.
The Secret Service declines to let them give Obama the box wrapped in gold ribbon and a letter they wrote him.
One tells a reporter: “I don’t think he’s taking a vacation, he’s preparing to be the next President. I’m deathly afraid he’ll continue the failed policies of the Bush administration.”