Re: Obama abdicates to Bill Clinton, lunacy

>> This "situation" is like a big Rorshach blot. I never ceased to be amazed
>> at how little it takes for for some people to start reading into it and
>> making grave proclamations. Liberals used to do it with George Bush all the
>> time. It was silly then, it's silly now.
>
> Sorry, dude, but if your president is going to be head of state and not just
> the government leader, then he's gotta accept the ceremonial duties of the
> post and accept the fact that there's an etiquette to what he does.

He had no "duty," ceremonial or otherwise, to stand there and take
questions. If I understand these things correctly, the press is there
at the President's convenience, not the other way around. It's was a
matter of convention, not "ceremony."

As far as "etiquette" goes, I really, really, *really* don't give a
sh!t, particularly if it involves something as meaningless as
manufacturing soundbites to temporarily satiate the rabid, vapid, and
voracious 24-hour, newsmedia. I've had quite enough of that routine,
and while the President ducking out of a press conference early to
hang with his wife isn't exactly a revolution, I can't fathom why
anyone would care.

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