Via JustOneMinute, look who’s upset about his loss of privacy.

He hasn’t had a vacation for months. He sees his family little more than once a week. And now as the presumed Democratic nominee for president, he can’t go anywhere without being trailed by a full crew of journalists.

Reaching his limit, Barack Obama wriggled free of the campaign’s fetters on July 4. Caught in Montana on his daughter Malia’s 10th birthday, he improvised a party.

“I know it sounds corny, but last night was actually one of those times where being in a Holiday Inn in Butte without a lot of fanfare. . . . I don’t know whether she was just telling us what we wanted to hear, but I can tell you from my perspective it was one of the best times I’ve had in a long time,” Obama told reporters aboard his campaign plane. Then he quickly turned and went back to his seat.

Being Barack Obama would seem an ego-enlarging thrill, with ecstatic crowds at every stop and — if the polls are right — a better than 50-50 shot at becoming president.

Watching him on the trail in recent days, though, it often appears as if the unrelenting attention and prolonged campaigning are getting wearisome. He told a customer at an Indiana diner two months ago that he had lost 7 or 8 pounds. He said he was learning to get by on four-to-five hours’ sleep.

So he’s tired of campaigning, he loves his daughter, and he feels he’s lost privacy. This main is a saint! Truly there has never been another candidate who has had this experience, why he must be one of us regular folk!

Seriously, though, that’s why I hate these stories. The media tries to convince you that by as small a task as observing his 10-year-old’s birthday, he’s just a regular guy like your or me.

Finishing a swing through some Western states Saturday, Obama vented about the loss of personal space that has accompanied his political rise.

Ah, that would totally explain the voluntary, privacy-invading segment he did for Access Hollywood which profiled his family even making their lunch.

The point was demonstrated vividly on his campaign plane a few days before, when Obama had to use the bathroom at the back of the aircraft — the lavatory in front being temporarily unavailable. He sidled past the press corps, explaining his predicament to surprised reporters.

Oh my God, the man used the bathroom in the back of the plane! He’s so modest and down-to-earth! You should totally vote for him.