National Security Not A Top Priority
In fact, since becoming president, Barack Obama has attended only 500 (fewer than half) of his President's Daily Briefings on national security and intelligence. These meetings are typically 30 minutes or shorter. The president has spent 250 hours, or 6.25 work weeks in PDBs.
He's gone golfing 104 times during his first term. If each round only takes him 3 hours, that's 7.8 work weeks on the greens. Never mind the travel time to and from the courses.
He's attended 163 re-election fundraisers (as of 12 June 2012 - or 90 days ago! In the first half of June his pace was 1.75 fundraising events per DAY!) since his inauguration. If he spends 1 hour in prep, delivery and recovery for each fundraiser, that comes to 4.1 work weeks.
Further, as we have seen, whenever President Obama begins by saying, "Look. This isn't about ME..." we're getting ready to see a shamelessly self-promotional monologue. He's held 68 news conferences not about himself and conducted 441 one-on-one interviews with national and local press persons. Also not about himself. If we are ridiculously conservative about the preparation and execution time required for such activities and say it's 30 minutes total per event, we're looking at just over 5.5 work weeks of telling us that it's not really about HIM!
It's often been said that if you want to understand a man's priorities, look at what he does with his time.
Well, there it is...
In fact, since becoming president, Barack Obama has attended only 500 (fewer than half) of his President's Daily Briefings on national security and intelligence. These meetings are typically 30 minutes or shorter. The president has spent 250 hours, or 6.25 work weeks in PDBs.
He's gone golfing 104 times during his first term. If each round only takes him 3 hours, that's 7.8 work weeks on the greens. Never mind the travel time to and from the courses.
He's attended 163 re-election fundraisers (as of 12 June 2012 - or 90 days ago! In the first half of June his pace was 1.75 fundraising events per DAY!) since his inauguration. If he spends 1 hour in prep, delivery and recovery for each fundraiser, that comes to 4.1 work weeks.
Further, as we have seen, whenever President Obama begins by saying, "Look. This isn't about ME..." we're getting ready to see a shamelessly self-promotional monologue. He's held 68 news conferences not about himself and conducted 441 one-on-one interviews with national and local press persons. Also not about himself. If we are ridiculously conservative about the preparation and execution time required for such activities and say it's 30 minutes total per event, we're looking at just over 5.5 work weeks of telling us that it's not really about HIM!
It's often been said that if you want to understand a man's priorities, look at what he does with his time.
Well, there it is...
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