Presidential Attention Deficit Disorder

[thisnumbersdisconnected]

Here's a question: Will we still be talking about Ukraine and Israel/Hamas at the end of the week, or will some other part of the world -- or perhaps our own border -- blow up then, pushing Ukraine and everything else back to the inside pages?

Remember those kidnapped schoolgirls? Remember how releasing the Taliban Five was an ominous indicator for Afghanistan? Remember ISIS taking over Iraq? Remember the Syrian civil war? Aren't there still oodles of Central American kids coming over our border?

Does our media lose interest in these crises because the president isn't interested in them? Or does the president feel like he's doing fine because the media stops covering them?

Just take a look at the president's schedule for this week:

National Review: The White House Week Aheadhttp://www.nationalreview.com/http://www.nationalreview.com/

On Monday morning, the President will sign an Executive Order to protect LGBT employees from workplace discrimination. In the afternoon the President will award Ryan M. Pitts, a former active duty Army Staff Sergeant, the Medal of Honor for conspicuous gallantry. On Tuesday, the President will deliver remarks and sign H.R. 803, Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act, at an event at the White House; the Vice President will also attend.

Afterward, the President will travel to Seattle, WA to attend a DNC event. Later in the day, the President will travel to San Francisco, CA, where he will remain overnight. On Wednesday, the President will attend a DCCC event in the San Francisco area, and later in the day will travel to the Los Angeles area, where he will remain overnight. On Thursday, the President will visit a community college in Los Angeles to deliver remarks on the importance of job-driven skills training, particularly for fast-growing sectors such as health care. Later, he will attend a DNC event . . .

That's three days of fundraisers! Two feel-good ceremonies on touchy-feely domestic issues! It's like Obama has decided he's governing in the late 1990s.

If you mention an Obama fundraiser, inevitably some snotty lefty will respond, "Sure, because Obama's the first president to ever attend a campaign fundraiser." No, but he's the first one to ever do so many.

Washington Post (July 16): President Obama has held 393 fundraisers in his six years in officehttp://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...d-393-fundraisers-in-his-six-years-in-office/http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs...d-393-fundraisers-in-his-six-years-in-office/

On Thursday morning, President Obama is off to a party fundraiser in New York. Next week, he’s flying to the west coast for another fundraiser with the Hollywood glitterati. When Obama was in Denver last week, he attended no less than four cash-gathering events in the space of 24 hours.

In his first term, Obama attended more fundraising events than any other president in recent history. According to author Brendan J. Doherty, from 2008 to 2012 Obama went to 321 events, compared to just 80 for Ronald Reagan. And, as the chart below shows, he’s done 72 events in his second term – 34 this year alone. So far, he’s ahead of the pace of George W. Bush, who had been to 30 events at this point in 2006. In his two presidential terms combined, Bush hosted 318 fundraisers. Obama has already smashed that number with 393 events to date.

I wonder if the big theme in the second half of 2014 is going to be increasingly open questions about Obama's connection to reality, or whether he's locking himself in an ever-thicker psychological and scheduling cocoon, behaving as if he's enjoying a fabulously successful presidency and that the world is getting better, more tranquil, and more prosperous on his watch.

 

[Zaac]

Here's a question: Will we still be talking about Ukraine and Israel/Hamas at the end of the week, or will some other part of the world -- or perhaps our own border -- blow up then, pushing Ukraine and everything else back to the inside pages?

Remember those kidnapped schoolgirls? Remember how releasing the Taliban Five was an ominous indicator for Afghanistan? Remember ISIS taking over Iraq? Remember the Syrian civil war? Aren't there still oodles of Central American kids coming over our border?

Does our media lose interest in these crises because the president isn't interested in them?

Maybe they lose interest because the majority of their audience loses interest.

Or does the president feel like he's doing fine because the media stops covering them?

That's probably the case a lot of the time.

Just take a look at the president's schedule for this week:That's three days of fundraisers! Two feel-good ceremonies on touchy-feely domestic issues! It's like Obama has decided he's governing in the late 1990s.

If you mention an Obama fundraiser, inevitably some snotty lefty will respond, "Sure, because Obama's the first president to ever attend a campaign fundraiser." No, but he's the first one to ever do so many.I wonder if the big theme in the second half of 2014 is going to be increasingly open questions about Obama's connection to reality, or whether he's locking himself in an ever-thicker psychological and scheduling cocoon, behaving as if he's enjoying a fabulously successful presidency and that the world is getting better, more tranquil, and more prosperous on his watch.

Well somebody has to be the first to do so many. Who was guilty of doing so many before?

Yall just got a chip on your shoulders about this President.

 

[just-want-peace]

Zaac:

Yall just got a chip on your shoulders about this President.

That's kinda like saying you have a problem with a hornet that has his rear-end attached to your arm!! :tongue3:

 

[InTheLight]

Here's a question: Will we still be talking about Ukraine and Israel/Hamas at the end of the week, or will some other part of the world -- or perhaps our own border -- blow up then, pushing Ukraine and everything else back to the inside pages?

It's highly likely. That's the nature of the news cycle.

Does our media lose interest in these crises because the president isn't interested in them?

What? Obama only learns about these crises because of the news media. He hears about them at the same time we do. Surely you remember him saying this? :tongue3:

Or does the president feel like he's doing fine because the media stops covering them?

I think Obama thinks he's doing fine no matter what the media does.

 

[Zaac]

I think Obama thinks he's doing fine no matter what the media does.

:laugh::laugh:

 

[carpro]

Here's a question: Will we still be talking about Ukraine and Israel/Hamas at the end of the week, or will some other part of the world -- or perhaps our own border -- blow up then, pushing Ukraine and everything else back to the inside pages?

They put out whatever cover story Obama decides to use to cover his incompetence of the moment. To them, that's the end of it.

Then they stand by like good little lapdogs waiting for the next instance of presidential incompetence they need to cover up.

Repeat cycle...

 

[InTheLight]

They put out whatever cover story Obama decides to use to cover his incompetence of the moment. To them, that's the end of it.

Then they stand by like good little lapdogs waiting for the next instance of presidential incompetence they need to cover up.

Repeat cycle...

Nope, the news cycle rules the media. News cycles typically run 24-48 hours, unless it's a big story. The downed airliner in Ukraine has been in the news since early Friday but even now you can see it's running out of gas.

Following your advice, I guess the next story the media is using to cover up Obama's incompetence is the news that Gov. Perry is sending 1,000 national guard troops to secure the border.