Why is Obama skipping more than half of his daily intelligence meetings?

[CuteOldGuy]

Turns out President Obama doesn't like his Daily Intelligence Meetings, and has missed over half of them. From the article:

Yet Vietor also directed me to a Post story written this year in which Obama officials discuss the importance of the intelligence meeting and extol how brilliantly the president runs it. “Obama reads the PDB ahead of time and comes to the morning meeting with questions. Intelligence briefers are there to answer those questions, expand on a point or raise a new issue,” The Post reported. “One regular participant in the roughly 500 Oval Office sessions during Obama’s presidency said the meetings show a president consistently participating in an exploration of foreign policy and intelligence issues.”

Not so consistently, it seems. Since Obama officials have actively promoted the way the president runs his daily intelligence meeting as evidence of his national security leadership (even releasing a photo of him receiving the briefing on an iPad), it is fair to ask why he skips the daily meeting so often.

Read the article. This guy needs to be more prepared. If he wants to be President, he needs to take the job seriously.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...4e1_story.html

[Yssup Rider]

Kool Aid.

[CuteOldGuy]

Didn't read the article, did you, Assup?

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Turns out President Obama doesn't like his Daily Intelligence Meetings, and has missed over half of them. From the article:

Yet Vietor also directed me to a Post story written this year in which Obama officials discuss the importance of the intelligence meeting and extol how brilliantly the president runs it. “Obama reads the PDB ahead of time and comes to the morning meeting with questions. Intelligence briefers are there to answer those questions, expand on a point or raise a new issue,” The Post reported. “One regular participant in the roughly 500 Oval Office sessions during Obama’s presidency said the meetings show a president consistently participating in an exploration of foreign policy and intelligence issues.”

Not so consistently, it seems. Since Obama officials have actively promoted the way the president runs his daily intelligence meeting as evidence of his national security leadership (even releasing a photo of him receiving the briefing on an iPad), it is fair to ask why he skips the daily meeting so often.

Read the article. This guy needs to be more prepared. If he wants to be President, he needs to take the job seriously.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinio...4e1_story.html

From the article.

The section right before the one you started with.

I asked National Security Council spokesman Tommy Vietor about the findings, and whether there were any instances where the president attended the intelligence meeting that were not on his public schedule. Vietor did not dispute the numbers, but said the fact that the president, during a time of war, does not attend his daily intelligence meeting on a daily basis is “not particularly interesting or useful.” He says that the president reads his PDB every day, and he disagreed with the suggestion that there is any difference whatsoever between simply reading the briefing book and having an interactive discussion of its contents with top national security and intelligence officials where the president can probe assumptions and ask questions. “I actually don’t agree at all,” Vietor told me in an e-mail, “The president gets the information he needs from the intelligence community each day.”

[cptjohnstone]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Didn't read the article, did you, Assup?

who says he can read?

[CuteOldGuy]

Since you like to blame Bush for so much, Munchie, the article also discusses how many security briefings he missed. Would you care to tell the class? Would you also share the part about how reading the briefing is far inferior to attending?

Would you please inform us what is more important in the President's day than his daily intelligence briefing? Golf? or Fundraising?

Thank you, in advance, Munchie, for your thoughtful, reasoned response.

[Guest040616]

StupidOldFart, have you ever heard of the word 'delegate'?

del·e·gate n. 1. A person authorized to act as representative for another; a deputy or an agent.

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Since you like to blame Bush for so much, Munchie, the article also discusses how many security briefings he missed. Would you care to tell the class? Would you also share the part about how reading the briefing is far inferior to attending?

Would you please inform us what is more important in the President's day than his daily intelligence briefing? Golf? or Fundraising?

Thank you, in advance, Munchie, for your thoughtful, reasoned response.

A quick correction.
I don't blame Bush anywhere near the number of times you have ignored his role in our current mess (mr. 12000 posts). Think about it. Someone could believe the previous 8 years had no effect on the following 2-3 years. Kinda stupid, huh?

But ignoring it is less than those who cry foul when the subject comes up. Comparison is a method by which benchmarks and other performance is measured. Denying it exists or that is not valid is pointless and absurd.

From the article;
'While the Bush records are not yet available electronically for analysis' So it will be a while before we can compare them.

That aside it looks like those briefings George attended never got around to discussing bin Laden.

There is one name quoted in the story. I posted his take on the situation. This being an op-ed article, he can get away without posting the names of any of the "officials" he uses for source information.

For somebody who doesn't believe the government tells the truth, you sure believe what the government says.

Excuse me. Ex government officials.

Un-named officials with their own agendas and legacies to repair would never lie.

PS
You're welcome.

[Whirlaway]

The Slacker In Chief spends more time on the golf course than in meetings regarding the economy.

FACT JACK!!!

http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Governm...ing-Their-Dogs


From the report....

"President Barack Obama averages just eight minutes more a week on economic meetings than the average dog owner spends walking their dog."

[WTF]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

For somebody who doesn't believe the government tells the truth, you sure believe what the government says.

Excuse me. Ex government officials.

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[CuteOldGuy]

Are you saying, Munchie, that he does show up to the meetings more than 43% of the time? If so, do you have a link to support that?

[Little Stevie]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

From the article.

The section right before the one you started with.

He says that the president reads his PDB every day, and he disagreed with the suggestion that there is any difference whatsoever between simply reading the briefing book and having an interactive discussion of its contents with top national security and intelligence officials where the president can probe assumptions and ask questions. “I actually don’t agree at all,” Vietor told me in an e-mail, “The president gets the information he needs from the intelligence community each day.”

LMAO @ COF!

COF caught red-handed selectively editing and posting tripe AGAIN!

What is so laughable about your ineptitude, COF, is that this comes on the heels of Obama's stepped up drone strikes and the killing of al Qaida's number 2 man in Yemen (one that George Bush had released from Gitmo)

You Teapublicans are such clusterfucks!

[CuteOldGuy]

Read the entire article, Stevie. Apparently morning coffee doesn't suit you either. Best to just lay off it entirely. Try Sanka.

[Munchmasterman]

Originally Posted by CuteOldGuy

Are you saying, Munchie, that he does show up to the meetings more than 43% of the time? If so, do you have a link to support that?

I have 2 posts in this thread. Do you see any mention of a percentage added by me? Any statement regarding his attendance at the meetings? No, there isn't.

I said what I said. I don't have a clue where you came up with me saying anything in the quote from your post.

PS Thank you for asking instead of claiming that's what I said. See how much easier this is when you ask for clarification from somebody instead of supplying clarification for me?

[Doove]

Originally Posted by Munchmasterman

For somebody who doesn't believe the government tells the truth, you sure believe what the government says.

Excuse me. Ex government officials.

No shit.

And apparently COG thinks there's some protocol that prevents Obama from asking questions about the 7/14 PDB on 7/15 or 7/16.