Sneak preview: Best president ever appears on best show ever

posted at 8:44 pm on July 28, 2010 by Allahpundit

Sorry, but I can’t wait until tomorrow morning. In fact, this vid has me feeling nostalgic for the early days of Hot Air, when “View” clips were a daily occurrence and every imbecilic Truther conspiracy theory floated by Rosie O’Donnell promised a traffic windfall. How young we were then…

Seriously, though, I don’t grasp the logic that this show is somehow beneath him. Remind me again, whose program did he appear on back in September to talk about subjects as serious as health-care reform and race relations? QED. Clearly, this is not a guy who worries about diminishing the office when there’s an important demographic to be courted, and this program will give him a pipeline to women voters. Exit question: Why not?

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It will be interesting to see what the actual ratings are… and just from the pic, Whoopi’s body language is interesting – she is leaning away from him, and she looks like she is holding her head as if to be looking down on him and she is pulling her crossed leg closer in to herself.

Queen0fCups on July 29, 2010 at 9:59 AM

He can only be mocked. Why SNL doesn’t do it, weekly, is beyond reason. The sources are soooo rich.

Schadenfreude on July 28, 2010 at 9:56 PM

Because, that would be RRRAAAAAAAACIST!!!!

Did he bow to anyone?

No , they bowed to him

Hummer53 on July 28, 2010 at 11:04 PM

Actually, I think that’s called genuflecting . . .

Special K on July 29, 2010 at 10:01 AM

Any bets on how long it takes Behar to start blaming Bush?

walnut on July 29, 2010 at 10:21 AM

My thought when I read the heading about the best President ever on the best show ever: There was no television when George Washington and Abraham Lincoln were President.

Phil Byler on July 29, 2010 at 10:45 AM

The most dangerous president ever.

rlwo2008 on July 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM

That’s a good place for him, much more appropriate than the oval office

runner on July 29, 2010 at 11:02 AM

Well I read the rationale for him going on the “spew” was to get back the soccer mom votes. He said that this is the only show Michelle watches? I guess she doesn’t have much to do then, since it’s on in the morning. Right Barack.

sandee on July 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM

I don’t watch “The View” you will shed IQ points just watching them with the sound off.

Dr Evil on July 29, 2010 at 11:14 AM

I don’t watch the View, I don’t listen to the so called President; Mute, Change Channel, Off are viable options.

Dasher on July 29, 2010 at 11:18 AM

Any bets on how long it takes Behar to start blaming Bush?

walnut on July 29, 2010 at 10:21 AM

In seconds : 10

Dasher on July 29, 2010 at 11:20 AM

Clearly, this is not a guy who worries about diminishing the office when there’s an important demographic to be courted, and this program will give him a pipeline to women voters. Exit question: Why not?

Next to blacks this is his constituency. It always helps to court a consitutency

However, what various pol-ops fear is scaring the rest of the country

Once they get a look at his constituency, and watch the View bounce their ideas off Ole Bouncy, he will take on some of their aura.

Does it help Ole Bouncy to take on a Babba-Wabba gloss when he is already taking blame for the economy tanking, joblessness, keeping FEMA away from the oil spill and pretending there is no nuclear threat which cannot be maintained by 200 million taxpayer bucks to create jobs in Gaza, 200 million to stimulate technology in muslim nations, and a muslim outreach sanctuary in the space station?

Obama would have done better to sit down with some oil coated pelicans. Especialy if he had brought along the director of FEMA to prove he had not locked FEMA out of the Gulf rescue

He has time for Babba Wabba’s (whose vote is a given) but no time for a voter intimidation case complete with paramilitary carrying weapons

This is his problem. As Rush said, it looks like he went on the View to donate some estrogen

entagor on July 29, 2010 at 11:23 AM

So does Obama think the Clintons should spend millions on a wedding when the country is in a severe economic recession and millions are jobless?

profitsbeard on July 28, 2010 at 9:05 PM

WE NEED A WEDDING CZAR!!!

NJ Red on July 29, 2010 at 11:59 AM

He actually said “the greatest nation on Earth”

This is a “code word” for “smile and cheer whilest I pick your pocket“

J_Crater on July 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM

Did he bow to anyone?

Dr Evil on July 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM

Actually I’d love to see the stuffed shirt slip on all the drool on the stage floor and take a prat fall.

But that won’t happen. I’ll not watch. Just have to settle for all the MSM rave reviews that were written last week.

TimBuk3 on July 29, 2010 at 12:03 PM

“My hope is that I’ve tried to set a tone in the debate that says, ‘Look, we can disagree without being disagreeable,’” Obama said.

You lie!

Blacksheep on July 29, 2010 at 12:05 PM

It will be interesting to see what the actual ratings are… and just from the pic, Whoopi’s body language is interesting – she is leaning away from him, and she looks like she is holding her head as if to be looking down on him and she is pulling her crossed leg closer in to herself.

Queen0fCups on July 29, 2010 at 9:59 AM

I don’t know but I have friends in daytime TV so I pay attention to the ratings. The View generally ranks below all of the soaps, but last week they posted their best ratings in months with a 1.2 household share . . . or about 800,000 viewers. So I don’t think he’s gonna be reaching a lot of eyeballs. They’ll get a bump of course, but daytime television is a dying breed. In the grand scheme of things, not so meaningful. He’d be better off to make a cameo on a reality show or something.

NoLeftTurn on July 29, 2010 at 12:17 PM

With “mongrel” comment do the Democrats owe George Allen an apology?

Don’t take the bait, Republicans. Simply comment on the double standard, but leave this one alone.

Political correctness is a trap for all who chose to play.

Angry Dumbo on July 29, 2010 at 12:27 PM

I don’t care about where he talks, whether it’s at some staged event in Ohio or the View.

The schtick is the same.

AnninCA on July 29, 2010 at 12:41 PM

He crosses his legs like a girl. :)

mmorgan21 on July 29, 2010 at 12:43 PM

Seriously, though, I don’t grasp the logic that this show is somehow beneath him.

Of course it’s not. Trash likes to associate with trash.

It would be beneath the presidency under any other.

Schadenfreude on July 29, 2010 at 12:58 PM

The schtick is the same.

AnninCA on July 29, 2010 at 12:41 PM

And no one cares what he says any more.

Schadenfreude on July 29, 2010 at 1:00 PM

Hmmm. I wonder how quickly the parents of the Boy Scouts will rush to vote for him.

katy the mean old lady on July 29, 2010 at 1:20 PM

Leadership: As Americans suffer economically, President Obama golfs, vacations, campaigns, appears on a frivolous talk show — and vacations some more. Gee, don’t we have a war and other problems to attend to?

Will history record that Barack Obama’s only great achievement as president was getting his golf handicap down to the teens? The president played more than two dozen rounds of golf in his first year in office — as many as George W. Bush did over his entire eight years.

The unserious president

Schadenfreude on July 29, 2010 at 1:41 PM

“We African-Americans are mongrels.”
Barack Hussein Obama

RACISM as blatant as it comes.

Even if defining “mongrel” as racially mixed, the word is NOT politically correct because it DOES have other negative connotations regarding barbarity.

American People
Mongrel vs. Melting Pot

BHO elevated “pure” African blood (his father) above African-American mulatto “mongrel” blood.

Mongrel:
An individual resulting from the interbreeding of diverse breeds or strains, especially regarding unknown ancestry.
An inferior dog, a cur. Derogatory Term. NOT genuine, inferior, dubious, a type of bastard. Genetics: An organism that is the offspring of dissimilar parents or stock; especially offspring that is produced by animals of different breeds or species.

maverick muse on July 29, 2010 at 1:51 PM

He crosses his legs like a girl. :)

mmorgan21 on July 29, 2010 at 12:43 PM

And throws a ball like a little girl. So much for all that basketball prowess bullsh!t from a guy who won’t be caught dead playing a real basketball game, even with his administrative staff. It’s always just shooting hoops; and if they don’t give him the ball every time, they’ll suffer the same fate as McChrystal, dismissed by this “Unengaged President.”

Barack Obama is a thin-skinned man and, according to Britain’s Daily Telegraph, White House aides indicated that what angered the president most about the Rolling Stone piece was “a McChrystal aide saying that McChrystal had thought that Obama was not engaged when they first met last year.” If finding Obama “not engaged” is now a firing offense, who among us is safe?

maverick muse on July 29, 2010 at 1:58 PM

Mark Steyn on Cohen on Obama:

“Who is this guy? What are his core beliefs?” Well, he’s a guy who was wafted ever upward – from the Harvard Law Review to state legislator to United States senator – without ever lingering long enough to accomplish anything. “Who is this guy?” Well, when a guy becomes a credible presidential candidate by his mid-40s with no accomplishments other than a couple of memoirs, he evidently has an extraordinary talent for self-promotion, if nothing else. “What are his core beliefs?” It would seem likely that his core belief is in himself. It’s the “nothing else” that the likes of Cohen are belatedly noticing.

Wasn’t he kind of unengaged by the health care debate? That’s why, for all his speeches, he could never quite articulate a rationale for it. In the end, he was happy to leave it to the Democratic Congress and, when his powers of persuasion failed, let them ram it down the throats of the American people through sheer parliamentary muscle.

Likewise, on Afghanistan, his attitude seems to be “I don’t want to hear about it.” Unmanned drones take care of a lot of that, for a while. So do his courtiers in the media: Did all those hopeychangers realize that Obama’s war would be run by Bush’s defense secretary and Bush’s general?

Hey, never mind: the Moveon.org folks have quietly removed their celebrated “General Betray-us” ad from their website. Cindy Sheehan, the supposed conscience of the nation when she was railing against Bush from the front pages, is an irrelevant kook unworthy of coverage when she protests Obama. Why, a cynic might almost think the “anti-war” movement was really an anti-Bush movement, and that they really don’t care about dead foreigners after all. Plus ça change you can believe in, plus c’est la même chose.

Except in one respect. There is a big hole where our strategy should be.

It’s hard to fight a war without war aims, and, in the end, they can only come from the top. It took the oil spill to alert Americans to the unengaged president. From Moscow to Tehran to the caves of Waziristan, our enemies got the message a lot earlier – and long ago figured out the rules of unengagement.

maverick muse on July 29, 2010 at 2:04 PM

Did he bow to anyone?

Dr Evil on July 29, 2010 at 12:01 PM

EXCELLENT question.

As circumstances would have it, that would have been a Galant gesture from a self proclaimed “mongrel” with antipathy for the legacy established by America’s Founding Fathers.

maverick muse on July 29, 2010 at 2:10 PM

when there’s an important demographic to be courted, and this program will give him a pipeline to women voters. Exit question: Why not?

Bwahahahahaha! By ONLY appearing with girly girls, he’s cowardly refusing at least ONE appearance on a FOX NEWS show like Hannity’s or better yet (given Sharrod’s quoting the White House FEAR AND LOATHING) Glenn Beck.

THAT I’d pay to see.

maverick muse on July 29, 2010 at 2:17 PM

Exit Answer:

Because it cheapens the office and makes him look like an even more clueless, effiminate d0uche

Tim_CA on July 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM

His “mongrels” reference is a bow to his Black Liberation friends

Mongrel Nation: The America Begotten by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings

unless the nation can fully recognize the Jefferson-Hemings relationship, it can never have a true sense of its identity

faraway on July 29, 2010 at 6:23 PM

QUOTE OF THE CENTURY, MAYBE EVEN THE MILLENIUM
Some people have the vocabulary to sum up things in a way you can understand them. This quote came from the Czech Republic . Someone over there has it figured out. We have a lot of work to do.

“The danger to America is not Barack Obama but a citizenry capable of entrusting a man like him with the Presidency. It will be far easier to limit and undo the follies of an Obama presidency than to restore the necessary common sense and good judgment to a depraved electorate willing to have such a man for their president. The problem is much deeper and far more serious than Mr. Obama, who is a mere symptom of what ails America . Blaming the prince of the fools should not blind anyone to the vast confederacy of fools that made him their prince. The Republic can survive a Barack Obama, who is, after all, merely a fool. It is less likely to survive a multitude of fools such as those who made him their president.”

conservativecaveman on July 29, 2010 at 7:28 PM

Because it cheapens the office and makes him look like an even more clueless, effeminate douche

Tim_CA on July 29, 2010 at 4:10 PM

Greetings, Tim the Enchanter. You know much that is (poorly) hidden, O Tim.

Jaibones on July 29, 2010 at 10:44 PM

Exit answer: Can’t think of a reason, since he has already reduced the Presidency to a farcical game show.

It seems like only yesterday that we lamented a President of the United States who spent sacred time on Easter — the holiest day of the Christian calendar — down in the Oval Office of the Peoples’ White House rubbing off some slutty Jewish girl with a cigar and getting a hummer in exchange.

And now we’ve gone to hell in a handbasket.

Jaibones on July 29, 2010 at 10:51 PM

I’m surprised to hear the silence in the MSM about Obama’s racist comments on The View.

I am not offended by his referring to African Americans as ‘mongrels’. If the NAACP or Rev Al wants to make it an issue I would agree they have reason to be offended.

Apparently there is no outrage among African Americans for being called ‘mongrels’. I can only take this to mean African American do not find the term offensive when applied to them.

What I do find offensive is that Obama referred to ‘white people’ as mongrels as well. That deeply and seriously offends me.

The WH and the usurper should apologize to white people as a whole and to every white person as an individual.

To me being referred to in degrading and racist terminology like ‘mongrel’ is highly offensive and damages race relations in this nation.

Mr Purple on July 30, 2010 at 5:59 AM

So President Barack Obama is aware that Lindsay Lohan is spending time in jail and – despite cracking a joke about her just two months ago – says he’s unfamiliar with “Snooki” from MTV’s “Jersey Shore.” That and the fact that the Obamas weren’t invited to Chelsea Clinton’s wedding was essentially the substance of the Leader of the Free World’s inexplicable appearance on ABC’s “The View” yesterday.

During the one-hour cackle-fest the president explained his presence by saying he wanted to appear on a show his wife actually watches. “All those news shows, she’s like, ‘Eh, let me get the clicker,’ ” he said. Uh-huh. Last night the president was to attend a fundraiser hosted by the editor of “Vogue.” Seems fitting.

Schadenfreude on July 30, 2010 at 12:43 PM

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