Obamateurism of the Day -- from HotAir

[Eupher]

There was plenty of criticism about Barack Obama’s debate performance eight days ago: Disengaged. Disconnected. Acted like he didn’t want to be there. And that was just the criticism coming from his fellow Democrats. Obama has another take entirely on why he flopped in the critical first debate, and that is that the President was just too … polite?

“Well, two things. I mean, you know, the debate, I think it’s fair to say I was just too polite …”

[Video of Barry the Slacker at the link]

Actually, Obama comes a little closer to the truth at the end of that sentence:

“…because it’s hard to sometimes just keep on saying and what you’re saying isn’t true. It gets repetitive.”

That was the actual problem.  Obama came armed with his usual slogans and straw-men arguments, the same ones he’s been using for nearly four years to explain away his failures as someone else’s fault, and they landed with a thud on the stage.  Obama discovered the difficulty of using straw-man arguments when someone else gets to respond, and ended up looking weak, petulant, and bored.  That’s hardly being polite to either Mitt Romney or the voters who cared enough to tune in, hoping to hear something new … like a second-term agenda, for instance.

And, as Erika pointed out yesterday, if the Obama standard of truth is the four-Pinocchio attack line on Big Bird, Obama’s not going to do any better in the next debate, either.

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GFY, Barry. You're a disgrace.

[Eupher]

We’ve had a couple of these collections of verbal tics from Barack Obama’s speeches as OOTDs, but apparently the Greatest Orator In Modern American Presidential History didn’t learn from those YouTube videos. That’s too bad for Obama; if he’d watched one or two of them, he might have avoided this one from the debate, compiled by BuzzFeed’s Dorsey Shaw:

[video of Dear Leader and his nervous tics at the link]

Dorsey commented: “Even the president’s most loyal fans have got to be getting annoyed with this.”  They certainly weren’t impressed by the impression Obama left in the first and most critical debate, nor his preparation for an event that has been on his schedule for the last four years.

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[Eupher]

On Friday, the day after the VP debate, the media wanted to know why Joe Biden claimed that the administration never knew about the requests for additional security from our diplomatic mission in Libya. They wanted to know why one State Department security expert described the difficulty dealing with State as “the Taliban [being] inside the building.” People wanted answers to questions about why the White House hadn’t kept tabs on a situation in Benghazi and eastern Libya that Barack Obama in large part created with his unilateral decision to apply military force to decapitate the Qaddafi regime without having any plan to keep the radical Islamist terror networks from taking advantage of the situation — including our enemy of war, al-Qaeda.

Unfortunately, the only person answering those questions was Jay Carney. Where was President Obama? As Jake Tapper reports, Obama was answering the tough questions in Miami about, er, a feud between two hip-hop artists:

President Obama appeared on the Miami radio station Y100 Friday,  where he weighed in on the Mariah Carey v. Nicki Minaj feud, was asked whether Vice President Joe Biden should shave his head to look more authoritative, and said he should have brought up Mitt Romney’s “47 percent” video tape during the presidential debate because “the media’s attention span is fairly short.”

“The media’s attention span is fairly short,” says the man whose idea of “media” this days is this:

The president spoke with DJ Michael “Yo” Simmons, the self-billed “Half-Black Brother with a Korean Mother” who also does stand-up and serves as a celebrity correspondent on E! News.

In this case, Obama picked the right man for the interview.  He’s a lot more of a celebrity than a leader, as he proved on Friday — when America needed a leader to answer those questions that Jay Carney was dodging.

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[AllosaursRus]

This assbite is more interested in lickin' his cronies ass and raising money for his campaign than he is about the death of 4 Americans in service of their country.

We can't get rid of this useless empty suit fast enough, in my opinion!

[Eupher]

It’s become no secret that Barack Obama won’t do tough interviews any longer, and it was the theme of our Obamateurism yesterday, too.  This one from Daniel Halper deserves a place in the OOTD canon, for an additional reason.  Once again, rather than do an interview with a real news reporter — even a local one — President Obama called into a Cleveland sports-talk radio station to discuss his campaign, and right away the conversation went to the issues that matter most to voters in that crucial swing state:

“Mr. President, you were in Columbus the other day. We saw you do O-H-I-O,” the host said. “Do they make you do that?

“They don’t have to make me do it. I do it on my own,” Obama responded. “I’ve been here so much that I’m a professional Ohio State cheerleader.”

“Sounds good,” said the sportscaster.

A professional?  I think a professional would have figured out how to spell out O-H-I-O on the first try:

A word of advice to @barackobama: it’s “O-H-I-O” that has 18 electoral votes, not “O-I-H-O” twitter.com/CHRISMAL0NEY/s…

— Christopher Maloney (@CHRISMAL0NEY) August 22, 2012

Not to worry, though — the professional then proceeded to talk about the big issue facing voters in three weeks:

And President Obama advocates for affordability of sports tickets. “It is important, though, to make sure that tickets, for example, stay affordable. And, you know, I do get concerned when I look at some of the major league teams across sports that, you know, you’re starting to price out a lot of families.”

Oi.

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[AllosaursRus]

And President Obama advocates for affordability of sports tickets. “It is important, though, to make sure that tickets, for example, stay affordable. And, you know, I do get concerned when I look at some of the major league teams across sports that, you know, you’re starting to price out a lot of families.”

Good grief! This guy needs to be wearin' short pants like Alfalfa from the Little Rascals.

Do they sell balls anywhere? If not, he sure as hell needs a transplant. Maybe he oughta see if Hitlery or the Wookie has a spare pair. I would imagine Hitlery has a few she could give up outa her lock box.

[Eupher]

The Barack Obama media avoidance strategy continues apace in the OOTD feature, once again with a bit of a twist. On Monday night, Hillary Clinton announced that she took “full responsibility” for the security failures that led to the attack on Benghazi — while Obama still hasn’t addressed it since his UN speech in which he blamed a YouTube video. But he’s got a hard-hitting interview coming up this week, with another opportunity to opine on the really important topics of the day. Is it with ABC News’ Jake Tapper, CBS’ Mark Knoller, or perhaps even the Washington Post? Not exactly– and even Politico has begun calling out the Leader of the Free World:

Cue the outrage from the Fourth Estate: President Barack Obama, who hasn’t done a full White House press conference since March, is taking questions from the celebrity magazine Us Weekly.

“Ever wanted to ask the President of the United States a question?” writes the magazine. “Here’s the chance, because President Barack Obama wants to hear from Us! As Obama, 51, campaigns for reelection in a race with Republican nominee Mitt Romney, the commander in chief will answer questions from Us Weekly’s readers — about his platform, his opponent, life at home in the White House with Michelle, Sasha, Malia and Bo, touring America on the campaign trail, his favorite celebs (Beyoncé and Jay-Z, perhaps?) and more!”

Shouldn’t they be outraged — or at least asking why Obama won’t meet with the press about the death of a US Ambassador and a misleading cover story from the White House that blew up in Obama’s face?

And it just got worse yesterday.  Reporters at the debate gave Obama an opportunity to talk about Hillary’s statement and follow it up with his own.  However, after showing a willingness to exchange pleasantries with the press, Obama walked away when the question got a little tough:

[video of Jugears, slippin' and slidin' along in Williamsburg, at the link]

Mr. President, we know leadership when we see it … and Leadership Rn’t Us.

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[Wineslob]

Ever wonder if the "Prez" is nothing more than a attention whore? Me neither.

[AllosaursRus]

Ever wonder if the "Prez" is nothing more than a attention whore? Me neither.

Ya know, I'd like to see the facts on how many days this ass has actually been in the White House doin' his job. We all know he's over a hundred rounds of golf, he shoots hoops with his lackeys and goes on vacation 4 times as much than any other Pres in my lifetime.

Just when does he do his ****in' job? Better yet, what has it cost us? And I'm not speakin' monetarily.

[ColonelCarrots]

Ever wonder if the "Prez" is nothing more than a attention whore? Me neither.

I'm waiting for him to do a facebook picture where he's holding his phone in the mirror and leaning slightly while doing duck lips.

[thundley4]

I'm waiting for him to do a facebook picture where he's holding his phone in the mirror and leaning slightly while doing duck lips.

While sitting on the counter in his panties or short-shorts? 

[Eupher]

Plenty of outrage got expressed last week over Barack Obama’s interview with Jon Stewart, in which he said that the deaths of four Americans in Libya was “not optimal“:

[video of Barry and his Best Bud Jon Stewart at the link]

Frankly, I didn’t think this was as outrageous as many on the Right did; clearly, Obama was repeating Stewart’s word choice, not his own. Of course, Stewart is a comic that gets paid to be snarky and irreverent, even with the worst of stories, while Obama is an experienced politician who should know better than to adopt that kind of language. I though Bernie Goldberg had the best take on the issue:

Mr. Obama didn’t come up with the word “optimal” all by himself. In his question to the president about the administration’s handing of the Benghazi attack, Stewart said, “I would say, and even you would admit, it was not the optimal response – at least to the American people as far as all of us being on the same page.”

That’s when the president made his “If four Americans get killed, it’s not optimal” comment.

The president made a mistake. When interviewed, you don’t let the interviewer put negative words in your mouth. But that’s all it was: a mistake. It wasn’t a sign of disrespect; he wasn’t belittling the death of four Americans. And conservatives know it!

I agree. Is it an Obamateurism? Sure — but it’s hardly a sign that Obama was indifferent to the deaths of four Americans.

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Interesting point of view, and one that is fair. Barry ****ed up -- pure and simple -- but then, we're used to that from him, aren't we?

[Eupher]

As we decelerate from last night’s debate on foreign policy, let’s recall this moment from the previous debate. Mitt Romney challenged Barack Obama on energy policy, pointing to skyrocketing gas prices as one outcome of Obama’s energy policies. Obama defended high gas prices as … proof of a booming economy?

[video of part of the debate at the link]

Well, think about what the governor — think about what the governor just said. He said when I took office, the price of gasoline was $1.80, $1.86. Why is that? Because the economy was on the verge of collapse, because we were about to go through the worst recession since the Great Depression, as a consequence of some of the same policies that Governor Romney’s now promoting. So, it’s conceivable that Governor Romney could bring down gas prices because with his policies, we might be back in that same mess.

Well, think about what Obama claims here.  It’s true that the law of supply and demand means that a lowered demand from a deep recession will create lower prices at the pump.  It’s equally true that if one generates more supply when demand increases, one will keep prices from rising very quickly, or at all.  In that sense, Obama acknowledged that Romney was right — that policies that keep the US from exploration, extraction, and refining push prices up.

Besides, if Obama’s correct about the fabulous economy creating higher gas prices, then household incomes should have roughly kept pace with pump costs.  What happened to median household income in that same period of time?  Oh, yeah — it fell by 4.8% during the recovery, more than during the recession itself.  Maybe Obama thinks that is a booming economy, but I doubt that middle-class households feel the same way.

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[Eupher]

As is usually the case when Barack Obama has to speak extemporaneously for any length of time, the debate on Monday night provided a few nuggets for OOTDs. Today’s comes courtesy of Breitbart, Ed Driscoll at Instapundit, and Jim Hoft, and took place during Obama’s defense of his handling of the Arab Spring.  In it, Obama tries to boost his presidential bearing, but instead ends up channeling a different kind of leadership altogether (emphasis mine):

[President Pompous in full bloom at the link]

“So across the board we are engaging them in building capacity in these countries and we have stood on the side of democracy. One thing I think Americans should be proud of: when Tunisians began to protest, this nation, me, my administration, stood with them earlier than just about any other country.”

L’etat c’est moi? Combined with the tone of perpetual annoyance Obama tends to adopt whenever challenged, that sounded pretty arrogant — and Karl Rove noticed it afterward, too:

[Karl Rove at the link]

A couple points we had sort of Louis XIV moments by President Obama. “I said when I would take the shot, I’d take the shot.” Well, wait a minute Mr. President, you didn’t take the shot, the SEALs took the shot at Osama Bin Laden. And, then at another point he said, “The nation, Me…” and then proceeded to describe what the nation wanted to do. And, I thought it was a little unusual because again it came across as just a little pompous at times – Louis XIV masquerading as president.

Yes, although the L’etat c’est moi quote is more solidly attributed to Napoleon than to the Sun King. Besides, using Tunisia as a measure is hardly determining. We had no pressing national security issues in Tunisia at the time of the Arab Spring. We did have pressing national security issues in Egypt and Libya, which Obama made worse with his Arab Spring interventions, pushing out Hosni Mubarak and conducting a war to remove Moammar Qaddafi from power.

What was the result? Obama couldn’t even bring himself to call Egypt an ally a month ago after our nation – that would be not “me, my administration” — had based our national-security policy in the region on our alliance with Egypt’s Mubarak for more than 30 years. Eastern Libya’s terrorist networks now operate freely, including al-Qaeda. Obama can brag about the outcome in Tunisia, but in this case, one out of three is still bad … and let’s not forget that our embassy in Tunis was torched and nearly overrun in September, too.

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[Eupher]

Within hours of having been exposed for the third straight debate as lacking an agenda for a second term, and with his campaign strategy of delegitimizing Mitt Romney in shambles, Barack Obama finally got around to putting out an agenda for the next four years on Tuesday morning. That didn’t keep Obama from using silly personal attacks on the campaign trail to belittle Romney. Obama had begun calling Romney’s purported shifts in policy stances “Romnesia” last week, but on Tuesday decided to equate it to cancer and end-stage renal failure (ESRD) by using the term “Stage Three” along with it (via Daniel Halper):

[vid of Barry the Boy Wonder at the link]

Obama: Now, we’ve come up with a name for this condition. It’s called Romnesia. (Applause.)

Audience: Romnesia! Romnesia! Romnesia!

Obama: We had a severe outbreak last night. (Applause.) It was at least stage three Romnesia. (Laughter and applause.) And I just want to go over with you some of the symptoms, Delray, because I want to make sure nobody in the surrounding area catches it. (Laughter.) If you say that you love American cars during a debate, but you wrote an article titled, “Let Detroit Go Bankrupt,” you might have Romnesia. (Applause.)

Sounds like Obama has a bit of an honesty problem on the Detroit accusation, as even his friend David Letterman discovered when he did what Obama didn’t … which was to check the record.  Beyond that, though, this kind of playground-level ridicule of someone’s name hardly befits an incumbent President.  As I wrote on Saturday, it reeked of desperation when George H. W. Bush did it in 1992, even without using medical terminology best known to apply to cancer and kidney failure.

Call this an acute case of ESRD — End Stage Re-election Desperation.

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[Eupher]

One of the first things an attorney is supposed to learn is to never ask a question without first knowing the answer. One of the first things a politician is supposed to learn — at least since Gary Hart talked himself out of a presidential nomination in 1984 — is to only challenge the press to dig up something when you’re sure it doesn’t exist. Barack Obama, both a lawyer and a politician, apparently never learned either lesson, as BuzzFeed’s Andrew Kaczynski proved.  Obama, while slamming Mitt Romney as a flip-flopper, double-dog-dared the media to find any changed positions in his public positions:

[Barry flip-flop video #1]

Well, for one thing, Obama signed a petition in 1996 advocating the banning of handguns, which Andrew embedded on his site.  Then there’s also his “evolution” on gay marriage since his 2004 declaration that his faith led him to oppose its legalization:

[Barry flip-flop video #2]

Or how about his flip-flop on marijuana legalization?

[Barry flip-flop video #3]

Andrew also has Obama on record in 2004 demanding an end to the Cuba embargo and giving at least tacit support for prosecuting businesses that hire illegal immigrants, which is somewhat different than his rhetoric as President.  But Andrew saves the best two for last.  Here’s Obama blasting George Bush for “hiding” behind the same executive privilege Obama now invokes over Fast & Furious:

[Barry flip-flop video #4]

And here he is criticizing Hillary Clinton’s support for the same individual insurance mandate that he made a central piece of ObamaCare:

[Barry flip-flop video #5]

Let’s add in one of our own, too:

[Barry flip-flop video #6]

Heck … maybe he was just BS-ing.

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[Eupher]

There’s nothing worse than attempting to ridicule a critic by offering a ridiculous — and easily checked — assertion. Recall this moment from the final debate, when our current Commander-in-Chief lectured his opponent on the modern American military?

[vid of Barry in the 3rd debate at the link]

You — you mentioned the Navy, for example, and that we have fewer ships than we did in 1916. Well, Governor, we also have fewer horses and bayonets — (laughter) — because the nature of our military’s changed. We have these things called aircraft carriers where planes land on them. We have these ships that go underwater, nuclear submarines.

Actually, submariners call those boats, Mr. President.  Ships that go underwater are called sunk.  But that’s merely a technicality.  On bayonets, Barack Obama had no idea at all that those are still standard issue in the Marine Corps — and that we have a lot more Marines now than we did in 1916:

According to the Wall Street Journal, the U.S. military has at least 600,000 bayonets in stock and plans to acquire 175,000 more.

Given that there were about 200,000 men in the Army and National Guard in 1916, according to National Review, that would mean that there are three times as many bayonets today and probably will be at least four times as many than before World War I.

According to the website marines.com, every Marine receives bayonet training in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program and on the Bayonet Assault Course in Recruit Training. The bayonet makes a rifle ”just as effective in close combat situations,” according to the website.

That’s the kind of thing that one might expect someone who spent the last four years as C-in-C to know, even without trying to puff himself up as a military expert.  Only amateurs would make this kind of mistake, and on the biggest stage of them all, no less, in what was clearly a pre-planned attack line.  Didn’t Obama and his team even bother to check with their own people at the Pentagon before deploying this in the debate?  Apparently, Obama’s just as talented at research as he is at military expertise.

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[ColonelCarrots]

Things have changed since 2007 we had a thing called a president and we don't have one of those anymore.

[Eupher]

China, Colorado … heck, they both begin with a C, right?

[video of the Barry, the Stumpmeister, at the link]

“I want to build on the progress we’ve made. Doubling clean energy. I want fuel efficient cars and long-lasting batteries and wind turbines manufactured here in China! I don’t want them manufactured in China, I want them manufactured here in the United States!”

As Colorado, Nevada, California, and everyone else has learned, when Obama puts a bet down on a green-energy company with taxpayer money, it’s most likely that the product won’t get manufactured anywhere.  See: Solyndra, Ener1, Abound, A123, et al.

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[Eupher]

The WSJ had a great op-ed on this yesterday, partially quoted below:


There seems to be nothing more conducive to creative thinking than an election that has slipped away from an incumbent. All of a sudden, Barack Obama is chock full of new ideas. He wants a “grand bargain” on debt and entitlement reform, for instance, even though neither were part of his 20-page picture book, er, second-term agenda that he just released last week.  But even more creatively, Obama wants to create another Cabinet position — the Secretary of Business:

In an interview with MSNBC, the president said he wants to consolidate a number of business and trade-related agencies, creating a “one-stop shop” for oversight.

“I’ve said that I want to consolidate a whole bunch of government agencies. We should have one Secretary of Business, instead of nine different departments that are dealing with things like giving loans to SBA [the Small Business Administration] or helping companies with exports,” he said in an interview with MSNBC’s Mika Brezezinski and Joe Scarborough.

Maybe he should show up for his current Cabinet meetings.  As the Wall Street Journal reports, Obama already has a Cabinet official that’s supposed to promote business:

Maybe Republicans would have opposed the Secretary of Business if they’d learned about it somewhere besides cable news, but who knows? The reasons could include turf, but also the fact that the government already has an agency with a “focus on expanding the American economy and job creation” and that “invests in America’s long-term growth and competitiveness”

It’s called the Department of Commerce, with its very own Secretary, and the quotes in the preceding paragraph are how the White House describes its mission in its 2013 budget. Mr. Obama wants to expand Commerce spending by 5% to some $8 billion annually. Extra credit goes to anyone who can name the acting Commerce Secretary. No Googling.

It’s actually Rebecca Blank, who has been acting Commerce Secretary since June, when John Bryson left after having a strange series of vehicle accidents in Los Angeles.  Bryson replaced Gary Locke, Obama’s first appointee, who became Obama’s Ambassador to China.  Now, if you don’t know all that, don’t feel bad.  Neither does Obama, apparently.

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[Eupher]

A fine sentiment, issued here by Barack Obama while visiting the Red Cross. “We leave nobody behind,” Obama says to the gathered volunteers. “We make sure that we respond as a nation, and remind ourselves that whenever an American is in need, all of us stand together to make sure that we’re providing the help that’s necessary.”

[video of Barry at the link - sorry, I can't watch it due to firewalls]

Of course, he’s talking about a private-sector organization during Hurricane Sandy … not the Obama administration during the seven hours that the Americans in our consulate in Benghazi were “in need,” in which case we apparently stand down rather than stand together.

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[Eupher]

This one was so obvious, even Politico reported it as a flub. Barack Obama gave Americans living in Hurricane Sandy’s path some great advice if thing suddenly got bad in the storm, which was to go onto the Internet and keep up with the latest information. That’s certainly great advice … if the storm hasn’t knocked out your power and/or Internet connection:

When President Barack Obama urged Americans under siege from Hurricane Sandy to stay inside and keep watch on ready.gov for the latest, he left out something pretty important — where to turn if the electricity goes out.

Yeah, that might be an important consideration — and it was for millions of Americans who lost power for a significant amount of time during the storm. In this case, Obama wasn’t alone in failing to think outside the (computer) box:

Despite the heightened expectation of widespread power and cable television failures, everyone from the president to local newscasters seem to expect the public to rely entirely on the Internet and their TVs for vital news and instructions.

None of the major cable or local news channels put emergency phone numbers or key radio station frequencies on their screens.

And what’s worse is that the advice to check out ready.gov turns out to be rather lousy advice.  Why?  Because ready.gov wasn’t, er, ready:

The only phone-related instructions on the homepage of ready.gov is how to get monthly disaster-prep text messages. The Federal Emergency Management Agency told the public via Twitter to use texts and social media outlets to stay informed.

That’s fine for those with smartphones, but not exactly helpful for those without.  And even those with smartphones need cell service to use texting, social media, and the Internet, much of which failed in New York City during the storm.

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[Eupher]

It’s difficult to keep track of the days on the campaign trail — which city you’re in (or state), what day of the week it is. Still, when you need voters to show up on Election Day, it’s probably good to get a proper count of the days until the polling places are in business, as our weekend editor Jazz Shaw pointed out:

Obama just told rally they have a choice to make “in four more days.” Yes, send everyone to the polls on Wednesday. Thanks.

— Jazz Shaw (@JazzShaw) November 3, 2012

We won’t have a problem with that, actually.

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[docstew]

It’s difficult to keep track of the days on the campaign trail — which city you’re in (or state), what day of the week it is. Still, when you need voters to show up on Election Day, it’s probably good to get a proper count of the days until the polling places are in business, as our weekend editor Jazz Shaw pointed out:

We won’t have a problem with that, actually.

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Hopefully, he got that message about election day out to ALL his voters

[Eupher]

Hurricane Sandy has devastated the most populous city in the nation. FEMA has struggled to deliver supplies and relief. Another nor’easter will bear down on the same area starting tomorrow. Where will the President be when it hits? On a basketball court in Chicago:

The president will observe his most time-honored Election Day ritual.

Former White House spokesman Robert Gibbs, who has joined the campaign on its final day to travel with President Obama, said his former boss sent an e-mail to his former personal aide, Reggie Love, to start organizing his regular pickup basketball game in Chicago for Tuesday.

Take it away, Katie Pavlich:

It might be a better idea for Obama to handle the ongoing Hurricane Sandy crisis instead. After all, thousands of freezing Americans with no electricity, water or heat, isn’t exactly “optimal.”

But … wasn’t that photo-op last week?

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