President Obama Sits Down With The Ladies of ‘The View’
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Barack Obama hasn't held a prime time news conference in over a year, but instead of facing the nation or sitting down with "Meet the Press," today the president is chatting it up with Barbara Walters and friends on "The View." Obama is drawing criticism before he even appears on ABC's daytime talk show. Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell slammed Obama, saying that "the president of the United States has to go on serious shows," while drawing comparisons of "The View" to Jerry Springer. The Daily News chimed in with the headline "Obama and 'The View': Two wars, oil crisis, crashed economy and he's whooping it up with Whoopi." Asked about this yesterday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs defended the booking, saying, "we made a decision to put the president on Jay Leno, David Letterman, "The View," because that's where, people have busy lives and it's best to go where they are." So what do you think? Is this the appropriate setting for the president to appear?
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dumb question….he can appear anyplace he pleases…still a free country the last I looked!
Posted by: LaVerne L. Oliver | July 28, 2010, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm
Appropriate? Possibly…but with all that is going on, I think it was inappropriate timing.
Let Gibbs and Co go tell the Boy Scouts that have been celebrating 100 Years that their Honorary Chairman gave them the finger for a play date with four hollywierd bozos.
Posted by: magicbus | July 28, 2010, 1:23 pm 1:23 pm
I think it’s tacky. I agree with the governor who said we need to have some dignity associated with the position of the President of the United States of America. The View? What in the world???
Posted by: Carol | July 28, 2010, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Can you please give him a breathing space?
Posted by: Moby | July 28, 2010, 1:57 pm 1:57 pm
The View is absolutely NOTHING like Jerry Springer. Barbara Walters is well respected journalist who has interviewed some of the most famous and controversial figures of our time.
Posted by: Cathy | July 28, 2010, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm
President Obama has taken every issue very seriously. Judge him on the issues, not whether he spends his lunchbreak at the view. Seriously.
Posted by: Lori | July 28, 2010, 2:15 pm 2:15 pm
I think it was a poor choice given all the turmoil in the country. He needs to talk to the people without a talk show behind him. He needs to be taken seriously and, unfortunately, the View is not taken seriously even WITH Barbara Walters on the panel. This country is falling through the cracks and he’s not helping one bit. Get serious!
Posted by: SPRINGSGRANNY | July 28, 2010, 2:42 pm 2:42 pm
Whether one agrees with every policy or not, and I don’t, reasonable people should be able to recognize that Obama makes a good executive. Of course he looks all the better following Elmer Fudd and his evil wabbit, Cheney.
Posted by: Javalation | July 28, 2010, 3:11 pm 3:11 pm
The celebrity prez cant seem to get it thru his head that he needs to act like a president instead of hobnobbing with the idiots in Hollywood etc who he thinks matter. Wake up Obama! The American people matter and you arent listening to what the majority of us are saying. The View? Are you serious? This is THE single most laughable attempt at serious dialogue and debate on television today. All these women do is scream and screech. You can tout Barbara Walters as being a solid journalist all you like, but she sold out to the almighty dollar and possible her age, when she signed on to lead this laughfest. There is absolutely NO credibility in Barack Obama being on this program. The audience it reaches at 11:00 am, is hardly the majority of the voting public that matters anyway, so the excuse that they want Obama to be seen by the people is a poor one. I cannot WAIT for 2012 to get here so our country can regain some semblance of respect and we can restore something resembling decorum to the Presidency.
Posted by: sallie | July 28, 2010, 5:44 pm 5:44 pm
Sorry Java. I consider myself more than reasonable as well as many of my relatives and associates and none of us consider Barack Obama to be a good executive. Good executives know how to lead, they have experience in running things, they KNOW how to act during a crisis. None of these apply to the almighty one.
Posted by: sallie | July 28, 2010, 5:47 pm 5:47 pm
What a stupid waste of a US president’s time! He is still campaigning to be the president. I cannot believe that I made the big mistake of voting for this turkey.
Wake up, Obama! We have record unemployment. We have an economy in ruins. Many of us have lost our jobs and our life savings. You haven’t even reinstated the Glass-Steagall Act yet, for God’s sake!
Our borders are completely out of control, and the country is spiraling into anarchy. Stop trying to be the big political celebrity, and start actually being the president and doing your job, damn it!
Posted by: Proud Native American and Angry Independent Voter | July 28, 2010, 6:15 pm 6:15 pm
Dear Proud Native American: Kudos to you for admitting that voting for this idiot, was a mistake! I have wondered for a long while now how many people who did vote for him are honestly re-thinking their decision. The sad thing is that so many who did, wont admit it simply because its more important to them to be right, than to do what is right for our country. Thank you for being honest and admitting that we, as a nation, can do A WHOLE LOT BETTER!
Posted by: Sallie | July 28, 2010, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
Thanks for the comments, Sallie.
Yes, we need a president, not a showman.
The country deserves a whole lot better than Obama.
Posted by: Proud Native American and Angry Independent Voter | July 28, 2010, 7:12 pm 7:12 pm
Hey. It is simple. The pres has gotten flak for not appearing “real” and “Human”. Thus, his entourage is putting him on the View to appear more personable. Nothing more then that. I am surprised, with kids who love Disney channel, that he has not appeared on one of those shows yet.
Posted by: Dude | July 28, 2010, 11:06 pm 11:06 pm
Just another fine example of Obama being our “PRIME TIME” president…. got to agree with PNAAIV,( although I didn’t vote for the turkey) It’s time for you to cowboy up and speak to the people instead of starting your re-election campaign two years early !!! If he is to be judged on the issues then he needs to face and SPEAK on the ISSUES…WE ARE DIMINISHED…AGAIN !!! What’s next, appearance on Oprah….
Posted by: Nachthexe | July 29, 2010, 12:10 am 12:10 am
The View is not the format a sitting President should be involved with.
Posted by: George1911 | July 29, 2010, 12:18 am 12:18 am
Wouldn’t it be interesting to see an accounting of how many billions of dollars of taxpayers money Obama has spent (personal appearances, air force one,security details,party favors, grand galas,etc.)for the sake of his own celebrity…what was our cost for the one hour stint on “The View”…hmmmmmm
Posted by: Nachthexe | July 29, 2010, 1:02 am 1:02 am
I think it was disrespectful to us and his position in this country
very lame
Posted by: mags jones | July 29, 2010, 1:06 am 1:06 am
For some people he will never do anything right and if you would just admit the truth you could move on. You do not want a black man to be president! You all are so funny you benefit from the emergency measures he put in place to clean up the MESS left by Bush! The view is watched by millions! And some of you call him an elitist?
Posted by: geena | July 29, 2010, 11:29 am 11:29 am
Is Captain Kangaroo still alive? If we bring back his show, Obama could appear on that too.
Posted by: Proud Native American and Angry Independent Voter | July 29, 2010, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm
Seriously people?!?
Posted by: ImJustMe | July 29, 2010, 4:55 pm 4:55 pm
No matter what the president does… certain people are going to find fault in him. He’s our president; like it or not, you should respect the office and his position.
I had to respect George W. Bush, and I didn’t call him an idiot. BTW… President Obama is FAR from being an idiot! Let’s be reminded of what he inherited… an economy in “shambles!!” (Just the facts.)
It’s amazing how forgiving people can be when a member of their political party is in office. On the contrary, how critical folks can be when members of other parties are in office.
His record will certainly speak for itself. Check the records, folks; check the records.
Posted by: ImJustMe | July 29, 2010, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
Some of the comments about the PRESIDENT of the United States Barack Obama are very tacky,ignorant, and disrespectful. He is human and he was bold enough to show you all that despite the turmoil/crisis that he inherited from the previous President, he has keep his personality/character/cool spirit in tact. Besides, most of you probably watched The View that day and you helped add another historic moment to his record…Thanks for your help!!
Posted by: allison | July 30, 2010, 8:22 pm 8:22 pm