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Finally – something worse than Bush “not reading newspapers”

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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings

Remember when the media used to castigate Bush the Younger for not reading enough newspapers? Even I was distressed. I try to read 2 a day – the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. (full disclosure – I use the Baltimore Sun to paper train our new puppy).

So imagine my absolute surprise when the media finally discovered something worse than Bush’s haphazard newspaper habits: Obama doesn’t attend most of his own intelligence briefings. (see link above)

Well, this explains a lot. No wonder he got confused, and thought the CIA was unaware of the ascent of ISIS. He was on the golf course. Or maybe walking the white house dogs (they have 2 now).

I’m not going to cut President Obama any slack here. It’s not like sleeping through 25 years of racist reverend Wright's sermons (“Aids is a genocidal plot by whitey”). Everyone hates to go to religious services, which is why I stopped years ago. But I have that luxury – I’m not running for office. If you hope to be part of the law-giver caste, you have to at least give the appearance of worshipping a graven image.

No such flexibility exists on presidential briefings. Mr. Obama, you spent $200 million in union, corporate, and individual campaign contributions to get this job. The least you can do is show up for work most of the time.

Next the president will be telling us that his advisers kept him in the dark about the deficit, joblessness, narcotics use, the fact that Hillary quit her job more than a year ago because she could no longer support Obama’s know nothing foreign policy.

Advice to president obama – you can probably get one of the 500 white house aides to put your security briefings into a podcast, and you can listen to them on the golf course, if you cant find time to squeeze them in otherwise.
 
as seen on tv said:
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings

Remember when the media used to castigate Bush the Younger for not reading enough newspapers? Even I was distressed. I try to read 2 a day – the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. (full disclosure – I use the Baltimore Sun to paper train our new puppy).

So imagine my absolute surprise when the media finally discovered something worse than Bush’s haphazard newspaper habits: Obama doesn’t attend most of his own intelligence briefings. (see link above)

Well, this explains a lot. No wonder he got confused, and thought the CIA was unaware of the ascent of ISIS. He was on the golf course. Or maybe walking the white house dogs (they have 2 now).

I’m not going to cut President Obama any slack here. It’s not like sleeping through 25 years of racist reverend Wright's sermons (“Aids is a genocidal plot by whitey”). Everyone hates to go to religious services, which is why I stopped years ago. But I have that luxury – I’m not running for office. If you hope to be part of the law-giver caste, you have to at least give the appearance of worshipping a graven image.

No such flexibility exists on presidential briefings. Mr. Obama, you spent $200 million in union, corporate, and individual campaign contributions to get this job. The least you can do is show up for work most of the time.

Next the president will be telling us that his advisers kept him in the dark about the deficit, joblessness, narcotics use, the fact that Hillary quit her job more than a year ago because she could no longer support Obama’s know nothing foreign policy.

Advice to president obama – you can probably get one of the 500 white house aides to put your security briefings into a podcast, and you can listen to them on the golf course, if you cant find time to squeeze them in otherwise.
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It's really better that way. Valerie Jarett says that he just gets in the way anyway. He's always asking what the big words mean and how to pronounce "corpsman".
 
Terrific example of unprofessional performance... Something an effective manager wouldn't do if he wanted his company to run smoothly...
Ah, damn, I keep forgetting the president doesn't need to be a manager. Or effective.
 
as seen on tv said:
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http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Peace/2014/09/29/Report-Obama-Has-Missed-Over-Half-His-Second-Term-Daily-Intel-Briefings

Remember when the media used to castigate Bush the Younger for not reading enough newspapers? Even I was distressed. I try to read 2 a day – the Wall Street Journal and the Washington Post. (full disclosure – I use the Baltimore Sun to paper train our new puppy).

So imagine my absolute surprise when the media finally discovered something worse than Bush’s haphazard newspaper habits: Obama doesn’t attend most of his own intelligence briefings. (see link above)

Well, this explains a lot. No wonder he got confused, and thought the CIA was unaware of the ascent of ISIS. He was on the golf course. Or maybe walking the white house dogs (they have 2 now).

I’m not going to cut President Obama any slack here. It’s not like sleeping through 25 years of racist reverend Wright's sermons (“Aids is a genocidal plot by whitey”). Everyone hates to go to religious services, which is why I stopped years ago. But I have that luxury – I’m not running for office. If you hope to be part of the law-giver caste, you have to at least give the appearance of worshipping a graven image.

No such flexibility exists on presidential briefings. Mr. Obama, you spent $200 million in union, corporate, and individual campaign contributions to get this job. The least you can do is show up for work most of the time.

Next the president will be telling us that his advisers kept him in the dark about the deficit, joblessness, narcotics use, the fact that Hillary quit her job more than a year ago because she could no longer support Obama’s know nothing foreign policy.

Advice to president obama – you can probably get one of the 500 white house aides to put your security briefings into a podcast, and you can listen to them on the golf course, if you cant find time to squeeze them in otherwise.
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I'd like to understand Obama's behavior in context -- which is obviously not something I'll get from a shameless propaganda factory like Breitbart. I'd like to know how much time Obama is spending in briefings of this sort versus how much other modern presidents spent. Was his behavior typical or not? That seems to be an important starting data point, in deciding whether to criticize him, doesn't it?

For example, what if we found out that Obama delegates someone else to handle over half the daily briefings, but still spends more time, in an average week, getting briefed on intelligence matters than any other president in history? Would that change your opinion? I'm not saying that's the case. I'm just saying that to understand this, we need some actual reporting, not just an attempt to feed the conservative "outrage mill" with a soundbite.
 
Arkady said:
I'd like to understand Obama's behavior in context -- which is obviously not something I'll get from a shameless propaganda factory like Breitbart. I'd like to know how much time Obama is spending in briefings of this sort versus how much other modern presidents spent. Was his behavior typical or not? That seems to be an important starting data point, in deciding whether to criticize him, doesn't it?

For example, what if we found out that Obama delegates someone else to handle over half the daily briefings, but still spends more time, in an average week, getting briefed on intelligence matters than any other president in history? Would that change your opinion? I'm not saying that's the case. I'm just saying that to understand this, we need some actual reporting, not just an attempt to feed the conservative "outrage mill" with a soundbite.
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Obviously Barry was absent enough that he is blaming his intelligence team on his ignorance.

That's obviously too much. :)
 
Arkady said:
I'd like to understand Obama's behavior in context -- which is obviously not something I'll get from a shameless propaganda factory like Breitbart. I'd like to know how much time Obama is spending in briefings of this sort versus how much other modern presidents spent. Was his behavior typical or not? That seems to be an important starting data point, in deciding whether to criticize him, doesn't it?

For example, what if we found out that Obama delegates someone else to handle over half the daily briefings, but still spends more time, in an average week, getting briefed on intelligence matters than any other president in history? Would that change your opinion? I'm not saying that's the case. I'm just saying that to understand this, we need some actual reporting, not just an attempt to feed the conservative "outrage mill" with a soundbite.
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I doubt Breitbart is "inventing this story". More likely disaffected security/intelligence aides leaked the details to the media. If it was a false story we'd have Jay Carney's understudy whining "it's not true" to the media by now.

I don't dispute that Obama likely names someone else to "chair" the intelligence briefings when he has other things to do. This likely happens at all cabinet level functions - he's not personally in attendance at all times.

that said, its facetious for obama - and you - to claim that his delegation of meeting chair resonsibilities to an underling in any way excuses his assertion on 60 minutes that the intelligence community let him down.

the intelligence community has been consistently warning - since inauguration day - that a precipitous withdrawal from the middle east will invariably result in an uptick in terrorism.
 
Arkady said:
I'd like to understand Obama's behavior in context -- which is obviously not something I'll get from a shameless propaganda factory like Breitbart. I'd like to know how much time Obama is spending in briefings of this sort versus how much other modern presidents spent. Was his behavior typical or not? That seems to be an important starting data point, in deciding whether to criticize him, doesn't it?

For example, what if we found out that Obama delegates someone else to handle over half the daily briefings, but still spends more time, in an average week, getting briefed on intelligence matters than any other president in history? Would that change your opinion? I'm not saying that's the case. I'm just saying that to understand this, we need some actual reporting, not just an attempt to feed the conservative "outrage mill" with a soundbite.
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So, in your utopian world, it's all a matter of percentages compared to other presidents. No wonder the left is so screwed up.
 
as seen on tv said:
I doubt Breitbart is "inventing this story". More likely disaffected security/intelligence aides leaked the details to the media. If it was a false story we'd have Jay Carney's understudy whining "it's not true" to the media by now.

I don't dispute that Obama likely names someone else to "chair" the intelligence briefings when he has other things to do. This likely happens at all cabinet level functions - he's not personally in attendance at all times.

that said, its facetious for obama - and you - to claim that his delegation of meeting chair resonsibilities to an underling in any way excuses his assertion on 60 minutes that the intelligence community let him down.

the intelligence community has been consistently warning - since inauguration day - that a precipitous withdrawal from the middle east will invariably result in an uptick in terrorism.
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There's been no precipitous withdrawal from the Middle East, so what relevance would that have? As you'll recall, we transitioned out of Iraq very gradually, over the course of years, and never got to the point where we were fully out of the country. In fact, Obama rightly was criticized for drawing out the withdrawal from Iraq far more than he'd promised in his 2008 campaign, and only leaving when the government of Iraq effectively left him no choice about the matter. Meanwhile, we've continued to fund and arm and run interference for Israel, we've continued to wage war in Afghanistan and Pakistan, we beat up on Libya, and we've expanded our drone campaign throughout the region. The idea that there's been a "precipitous withdrawal from the Middle East" is the kind of alternative-reality version of events that can only survive in the laughing-gas climate of Fox News and other conservative nonsense manufacturing operations.
 
Alinvegas said:
So, in your utopian world, it's all a matter of percentages compared to other presidents. No wonder the left is so screwed up.
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I don't understand what it is you're trying to say. What evidence do you see of utopianism in my comments? I'm simply making the very practical point that judging Obama meaningfully is going to require reference to his peers.
 
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