Campaigner-in-Chief Snubs The Boy Scouts 100 Year Anniversary Jamboree For An Appearance On The View

posted at 11:29 am on July 27, 2010 by Cassy Fiano
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President Barack Obama is the honorary chairman of the Boys Scouts of America. The Boy Scouts have given millions of hours in volunteer service, and have helped to make strong, accomplished leaders out of millions of boys over the last hundred years. Many of our nation’s presidents have been involved with Boy Scouts, including George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter, Gerald Ford, Lyndon B. Johnson, John F. Kennedy, and Franklin D. Roosevelt. Scouting builds character, encourages leadership, and instills strong, traditional values that many children lack growing up today. The last three presidents — George W. Bush, Bill Clinton, and George H.W. Bush — all spoke at Boy Scout Jamborees while serving in office. This year is the Boy Scout 100 Year Anniversary Jamboree, but will Obama be attending? Nope, he’s got more important things to do… like rub elbows with the ladies of The View. Priorities, people, priorities.

President Barack Obama, the honorary chairman of the Boy Scouts of America, will not speak in-person before the group on Wednesday at Fort A.P. Hill in Virginia, as part of the organization’s 100th anniversary celebration. However, the president is sending a videotaped message to the scouts for Wednesday, the same day he will be in Manhattan to tape an appearance for ABC TV’s talk show “The View.”

Bob Dries, chairman of national news and media at the Boy Scouts of America Jamboree – a gathering that happens every four years and attracts thousands of scouts from around the world – told CNSNews.com that the organization was told on Monday that the president had scheduling conflicts and would not be speaking in-person at the week-long event.

The BSA had scheduled its Wednesday arena program to include remarks by the president at 11 a.m. in front of the more than 45,000 scouts who will be in attendance.

Now, I could understand Obama not attending if he was doing some actual, you know, governing. But he isn’t. He’s blowing off the Boy Scouts — 45,000 American boys — in favor of the women of The View. And it isn’t even a live appearance, it’s a taped appearance. You’re telling me there’s no way he could have rescheduled his pre-taped appearance on The View to make time for the organization that has built the character of millions of American boys? I don’t know. Maybe Obama would just feel uncomfortable around thousands of boys who genuinely love God and country. And Lord knows, he might be worried about the competition with his Hitler Youth Brigade.

Of course, this isn’t all that shocking. We call Obama the Campaigner-in-Chief for a reason, and this is just another one. He loves the perks of the job, he loves his celebrity status, but he doesn’t actually want to do anything. He’d rather hang out with celebrities than honor 48 Medal of Honor recipients. He’d rather go to parties and play golf than clean up the oil spill in the Gulf. And he’d rather play celebrity on The View than attend the Boy Scout 100 Year Anniversary Jamboree.

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