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."3

**so much for the people's right to know.  Actually, he created his own problem
when he vowed to be the most transparent administration ever.  He HAS to take
the questions, he promised he would.

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.

***because it shows he is a hack who cannot handle tough questions?



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