White House press secretary Jay Carney says being president restricts President Obama from focusing "entirely on the campaign." Transcript of the exchange at today's press briefing below.Video at the link (http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/08/07/carney_obama_being_president_restricts_obamas_ability_to_campaign.html)
Reporter: At this point, the president has had to attend so many more fundraisers than, say, George W. Bush had during this point in his reelection campaign. Does that impact the president's ability to do his day job?
Jay Carney: Well, it does not. It certainly is part of running for president and running for reelection. But as we've discussed here, it is a simple reality that even as he is a candidate for reelection, he continues to be president of the United States. And the demands of the job restrict his capacity, in some instances, to focus entirely on the campaign. He simply cannot do that. So he, and we, carefully allocate his time, working with the campaign, and when matters of state trump campaign requests for his time, that's a fact that he has to live with and we have to live with because that is his primary responsibility.
Carney talks out his butt more than his face.
Jay Carney is a smarmy little douchebag . . . and I'm being nice.
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Jay Carney is a smarmy little douchebag . . . and I'm being nice.
Shouldn't that be smurky little douchebag?
Shouldn't that be smurky little douchebag?
You have to remember that Carney is a guy who couldn't say what the capital of Israel is.
You have to remember that Carney is a guy who couldn't say what the capital of Israel is.
I almost feel sorry for Carney, it must suck to have to lie your ass off every day to protect 0bama.
What a pantsload. Obama has been in Colorado since yesterday, lying his ass off on our dime.
What a pantsload. Obama has been in Colorado since yesterday, campaigning his ass off on our dime.