Assuming this report in the Daily Beast is true, oh, how the mighty have fallen.

Spies tell The Swamp that Barack and Michelle Obama, and Kamala Harris, and husband Doug Emhoff were all dining at the exquisite ($30-a-burger) State Road restaurant in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard last Thursday night. The only issue was that the couples were in separate rooms.

…Now, The Swamp hates to draw any conclusions from the dining arrangements, and the folks at the popular dining spot weren’t saying. Our spies did report that one couple stopped by to say hello to the other, so it was cordial enough. Maybe they all retired to an Airbnb to bitch in private. One would have thought they’d have so much to discuss. But sometimes, as much as you tell someone they’ve already had their chance and they blew it, they just don’t want to listen.

Life comes at you fast. One moment you’re leading in the polls and on path to be the next president of the United States. The next minute, the Obamas are hoping you won’t notice they’re in the same restaurant as you.

Now, as I wrote earlier this year, we shouldn’t be entirely shocked that the Obamas might be less than eager to spend time with Kamala Harris and her husband. As the Jonathan Allen and Amie Parnes book Fight: Inside the Wildest Battle for the White House makes clear, Barack and Michelle Obama thought quite poorly of Harris. It may well have gone back to 2013, when then-president Obama caused a bit of a stir by calling Harris “the best-looking attorney general in the country.” (In the video at the link, Obama is defended by, er, Charlie Rose.) Allen and Parnes write:

Harris let him twist for a day declining to comment. The most important woman in Obama’s life, his wife Michelle, found irritation in both his remark and Harris’ silence. In order to win Harris’ forgiveness, the president was forced to call her and apologize.

Apparently in the interim decade, the Obamas never grew that impressed with the vice president, and didn’t think Harris should be handed the Democratic nomination without a fight. Page 154:

. . . Obama still had deep misgivings about Harris — and a hankering for an intraparty fight. “He did not think she should be the candidate,” said one confidant. He liked the idea of Michigan governor Gretchen Whitmer at the top of the ticket and Maryland governor Wes Moore at the bottom — a combination that would still allow Democrats to rally around a woman and a person of color — but he was mostly certain he didn’t want a coronation of Harris.

Harris called Barack Obama the afternoon that Joe Biden withdrew from the race, hoping for an endorsement; he declined to endorse her. They eventually endorsed her in a video that was entirely stage-managed by the Obamas.

In other Kamala Harris news, she may no longer have U.S. Secret Service protection, but she now is getting protection from the California Highway Patrol and Los Angeles Police Department. Hey, if you can’t be protected by Gerard Butler, Ponch and Jon are a pretty good substitute.