When he is not flying around the country trying to raise cash for a campaign to convince voters for four more years, Barack Obama is hardly at work doing a lot of nothing at the White House…
Here is the official presidential schedule for Thursday, July 12, 2012:
9:45 am || Receives the Presidential Daily Briefing
That’s all folks!
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I am reminded of an interview given by White House Insider around this time last year:
(WARNING: ADULT CONTENT)
White House Insider: The Obama Plan – Part Three
…Insider: I’m at my desk here right? We’re sitting here having this conversation. How about we take a look at what the president would look like in the same situation? Walk into that room – that office of his on the 2nd floor. He spends less and less time downstairs – that’s Daley’s world now. The president doesn’t like the Oval Office much – he’s made that point repeatedly to more than a few at the White House. He prefers to be upstairs, no suit. No shoes. No joke —
Ulsterman: (Interrupts) —Shoes?
Insider: Yeah – shoes. President Obama, when he is in his de facto office upstairs – the one that is closer to Jarrett’s own office, and a short hop over to the residence, he spends his time there often in shorts, or sweats, a t-shirt, and those sandal things…flip-flops. There is a large screen television in there and that’s where hours of his time are spent when he is actually at the White House. Day in and day out. The First Lady rules the residence, and the president heads over to his 2nd floor West Wing study. Starting around last spring, he started to take regular briefings in there. And the instructions that went out on those briefings to the president were that they were to be most importantly – brief. Anything more than about 15 minutes is unacceptable to Obama. So let’s look through the eyes of someone heading into Barack Obama’s upstairs office at the White House to give him a briefing. Maybe it’s on national security. Maybe the economy. Energy policy. Whatever – doesn’t matter. The scenario being played out these days is pretty much the same regardless of the particulars. You knock on the door – it’s always closed. Always. Often you have to knock for some time before being given approval from inside to enter. The big screen will be on – the volume loud. You can easily hear it from outside the door. The sports channels are the ones most commonly playing, though sometimes the channel will be set to music, or Fox News. Sometimes Valerie Jarrett might be there, but most often it is just the president and his personal aide. A large leather chair will be facing the television – it’s well worn. Not part of the White House furnishings but something the president must have brought in from back home. That’s where you’ll most often find the President of the United States – the most powerful man in the free f*cking world. He often sits with one leg draped over one of the chair’s arms and the other leg stuck straight onto the floor. Shorts, sweats, a t-shirt, and like I said, no shoes or just those sandal things that so many of the younger people like to wear these days. And that leg that’s draped over an arm of the chair will be bopping up and down, like…like someone with a lot of nervous energy. Like a kid does. And there’s the smell of smoke hanging on the president. The guy never quit smoking – that was all bullshit. I told you that already. In fact, there’s one of those smokeless ash trays on the desk in there. And that desk, it’s a mess. Magazines spread out all over it. Stupid shit too. Real low brow reading material the president is into. People. Rolling Stone. Lots of those tabloid things. The most common thread with this shit is it’s about the president. If it’s about him, he’s gonna read it. Good or bad – doesn’t matter. If somebody is talking about him, he’s reading it. He’s watching it. Whatever. The guy’s self-obsession is off the f*cking charts.
So that’s what you first see when you enter the room – the upstairs office of President Obama. Next you’re gonna notice how small the guy looks. Really thin. He pads his suits up you know. The top end. The shoulders. It became an actual issue during the 2008 campaign – some of his handlers were saying it made his neck look too small. Fact is, it made his neck look just like it is – small. The guy is scrawny. All knees and elbows sitting in that chair. Sometimes he gets up when you come in, sometimes he remains seated and will just turn the volume on the TV down with the remote and say, “What you got?” That foot is bouncing up and down while you give him the briefing, but he rarely looks over at you – always looking at whatever is on the television. If it’s Jarrett in the room, or the personal assistant, one of them is there to keep the time. Your time. Don’t go over that fifteen minutes. And even if the president doesn’t look like he hears a word you’re saying, they are listening to everything. Every goddamn syllable coming out of your mouth, and if something is said they don’t like, they jot down notes. Been told it’s to use for the end of day summary they give the president – their own version of what is important and what can be ignored…and who might need to be pushed down, or pushed out…or whatever. So you’re looking at the president, this skinny guy, who’s ignoring you, who’s dressed like some kind of fucking frat boy wannabe, with somebody else taking notes on what you’re saying, and then you get up and walk out. The president might acknowledge you on some days, give a little nod, maybe even a thank you, but most often he just continues to look at the TV, bounce that foot on the chair, his skin looking off-color, pale, the eyes out of focus, the hair a helleva lot more gray than is shown in public, the wrinkles around the mouth far deeper…and the hands. His fucking hands are so…they are just these thin little stick digits. They are like these long-fingered woman’s hands. And his wrists, you could wrap your own fingers all the way around those wrists – again, so much like a woman’s hands. Almost freakish. Certainly not the strong alpha-male type image that America was given during the 2008 campaign.
FULL INTERVIEW HERE:
So it looks like, in keeping with the 15 minute briefing rule, he was done by 10 AM, and ready to go back to watching ESPN…
That was an amazing interview from last year. Just a suggestion but maybe you could do an article that highlights some of the best quotes from both insiders from the interviews over the last couple years?? That would make it very easy to share with friends and family to help educate them for the election.
Yeah, that was quite some scheduling conflict that prevented him from attending the NAACP convention on Thursday July 12th…:-)
that was EXACTLY my thought. If he doesn’t watch out he’ll lose black votes. His support could slip from 96% all the way down to 94%. It must suck to be part of a cohort that is so taken for granted. Why, it’s almost like spousal abuse.
And they defend him in the same manner. “It’s okay. He didn’t mean it. He’s having a bad day. I’ll take him back. I know he loves me”.
aaaargh…
Black Christians should flee from him – sprinting all the way to the gates. He represents nothing that they endorse, except affirmative action. Perhaps they love their ethnicity more than they love Jesus.
I have to admit this: I am a Christian first, an American second. Obama is neither. As Dinesh’s new movie points out: no one knows who Obama really is or WHAT he is.
I don’t think he cares so much about votes these days as campaign contributions. Yet another thing that should raise eyebrows.
Yeah…he phoned in an appearance!!! Actually, he sent a “wish I could be there” video.
That’s what the plantation owner does. He sends word through to the field manager what the slaves should be doing in the field that day, whether it’s plant the seeds, hoe the weeds, or pick the crop. Orders come from the slave owner to the manager to the slave. The slave owner never talks directly to the slaves. And the slaves must not look the Master in the eyes, and NO physical contact.
Sad. Today’s Negroes just don’t see what Barry is.
People just don’t know how hard Bush worked at his job – he was on duty all the time, especially in Crawford. Clinton was bored – but he worked hard when there was something for him to do.
I get the feeling that they told Obama: don’t worry, you can just delegate. And delegate. And delegate. Once referred to him as the Delegator in Chief. This explains the San Joaquin Desertification, and the man-made drought via environmentalism. He didn’t care, didn’t care to know and didn’t want to be reminded. Same with Afghanistan: he had to be goaded in Rolling Stone before he’d wake up and spend any time on the issues.
All because he’s the Magical Negro (thanks for the term, Spike Lee) that white people willingly swooned over. Not only does he inspire magical thinking, that describes his own thought processes. Magical thinking.
One MMPI should disqualify such a person from the office he pretends to hold.
http://images.sodahead.com/polls/002561781/4028968023_Barack20Obama_The20Magic20Negro_xlarge.jpeg
Obama either doesn’t care if he wins re-election and is just campaigning to get out of the White House or he’s been told that he’s got it and can relax. And, relax some more. This election is a tense one. So much so that it can be felt even in articles. Whew!
Good news! the National Black Republican Association has launched an anti-Obama, anti-Democrat radio campaign. Thank God!http://bit.ly/LMrXYj
The public WH schedules would make an excellent ad showing just how little he does except when out fundraising. I’m starting to think the fundraising is for a slush fund for his retirement as he can read the polls and doesn’t seem to care about even appearing to govern anymore. This is the pattern of his entire work life. He stays just long enough to screw up visibly and then leaves. Slacking works only so long before it catches up with you.
Elliott, I’ve long thought the same thing about the retirement fund.
He’s just letting the other DemoKKKraps do the dirty work for him. He and his campaign only know how to campaign on SMEARS. THIS JUST UP. READ IT. CLICK ON THE PDF LINKS TO SEE THE SMEARS. ALLEN WEST has 75 pages! They are getting desperate.
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/07/12/secret-democratic-oppo-research-files-for-twelve-2012-match-ups-found-via-google