Obama 'The View' Interview: President Talks Sherrod Firing, Afghanistan, Lindsay Lohan (VIDEO)

His schedule this past couple of days is the heaviest I've ever seen it:



July 28, 2010 -

9:30 AM - Obama receives the presidential daily briefing.



10:00 AM - Obama meets with senior advisers.



10:40 AM - Obama meets with Sen. John Kerry.



1:30 PM - Obama meets with a group of small business owners.



2:20 PM - Obama delivers a statement to the press at a Tastee Sub Shop.



5:40 PM - Obama attends a DNC finance event (fundraiser).

(closed to the press)



7:20 PM - Obama attends a DNC finance event (fundraiser).

(closed to the press)



July 29, 2010 -

10:05 AM - Obama delivers speech on education reform



11:10 AM - Obama meets with his national security team for his monthly meeting on Afghanistan and Pakistan



12:35 PM - Obama has lunch with Joe Biden



1:45 PM - Obama receives the pdb



4:50 PM - Obama signs the Tribal Law & Order Act



6:00 PM - Obama signs the Supplemental Appropriations Act



7:05 PM - Obama attends a DNC finance event

(closed to press)
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Obama 'The View' Interview: President Talks Sherrod Firing, Afghanistan, Lindsay Lohan (VIDEO)

Obama is rarely stuck in the Oval Office all day.



His daily schedule is second only to Bush's in lightness. He's in by 10 am, spends most of the day in photo ops and giving fundraising speeches at Democratic Party events. Most Fridays he's off (long weekends at Camp David) and most days he knocks off early and is upstairs at the residence for dinner with the family and a movie (or some recreational event) by 5 pm.



I bet I know more than you do about Obama's schedule, what he does, Washington and the product coming out of his administration and the DLC-controlled Congress.



His itinerary is second in lightness only to Bush's.



His days are spent, primarily, in photo ops and giving speeches to raise money for Democrats. That's been true since the day he got into the White House.
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Obama 'The View' Interview: President Talks Sherrod Firing, Afghanistan, Lindsay Lohan (VIDEO)

Obama's appearance on The View was an insult to the intelligence of voters.



He needs to start holding regular press conferences with journalists from ALL media.
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Obama 'The View' Interview: President Talks Sherrod Firing, Afghanistan, Lindsay Lohan (VIDEO)

Obama pledged action "On day one ..." and transparency, so that citizens could see what was or wasn't being done. No sooner did he enter office than he slammed the door shut on transparency. He doesn't hold regular press conferences (the last one came from criticism after not having one for almost a year), preferring r!d!culous venues like this one, The View. - Obama has borrowed Bush's style of avoiding scrutiny & questioning. And like Bush, everything that Obama does is purely political -- His days are short, his weekends are long (3-4 day weekends at Camp David), & what time he does spend in the White House & Washington is spent doing PR fluff (throwing out first pitches at baseball games, photo-ops, barbecuing with Bobby Flay, appearing on American Idol, etc.).



This is not leadership -- This is detached corporate shilling.
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Obama 'The View' Interview: President Talks Sherrod Firing, Afghanistan, Lindsay Lohan (VIDEO)

Politifact only recognizes 19 broken promises & cuts Obama much slack.



Politifact has gamed its way of measuring Obama's "promisekeeping"; its categories ('NO ACTION', 'IN THE WORKS', 'STALLED' or 'NOT YET RATED) are misleading. Many a campaign promise or pledge (hundreds of them) has been generously placed in these categories to languish.



As Politifact claims, "Once we find action is completed, we rate them 'PROMISE KEPT' 'COMPROMISE' or 'PROMISE BROKEN'". By Politifact's own definition, it enables Obama to keep these issues in limbo for 4 years.



One of many examples of Politifact's gaming its list is that Politifact doesn't even list in its "Promises Broken" category Obama's campaign promise to impose 'Windfall Profits Taxes on the Oil & Gas Industry" - Obama immediately reneged on it once in office, saying, "The prices have now dropped - We'll see about doing that if or when they rise again."



With oil over $80/barrel (the amount that, had Obama kept his promise, the windfall profits tax would have been triggered).
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Sen. Cardin: Dems, Obama Never Connected BP Spill To The Need For Climate Change Legislation

You're looking to start a hundred little fights that we just don't have time for right now. We have more pressing needs than going back and kicking Bush's butt over Katrina again.

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I can't state this enough times: You are an id-jit.



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Sen. Cardin: Dems, Obama Never Connected BP Spill To The Need For Climate Change Legislation

Look son, I'm pro-choice.

I know a lot of pro-choice people who ae uncomfortable with abortion. I know some pro-lifers who don't feel right butting into other peoples lives.

It's an issue a lot of people grapple with, but we don't need to write 100 page essay about it.

As long as Obama appoints SC justices who are likely to uphold Woe V. Wade, I'm good with it.

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That's because you're an id-jit, who doesn't understand the problem.



#1, there is no guarantee of what any Obama nominee would decide on Roe vs. Wade, nor does it address the problem of more than 20 years of rightwingers chipping away at a woman's right to choose.



What good is having the right to an abortion if there's no place to actually get one?



Currently, 87% of counties in the US have no abortion services. That's what complacent a$$holes like you have let happen.
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