IF that was the only way to get President Obama to sit down, shut up, and actually listen to criticism. Which hopefully he got yesterday.
Which, by the way, is why I am much more accepting of conservative pundits meeting with him off the record than I am of liberal pundits doing so. I expect the conservative ones to have their respect for the office inform their advice… and I expect the liberal ones to have their worship (and, in some cases, fear) of the man to inform their advice. And as you might expect, I think that the former is more likely to be beneficial to the country than the latter.
Anyway, that’s my thinking on this.
Moe Lane
Eh. I’d like to think I could do the same, but .. well .. I can only take so much annoying, meaningless droning and *in spite of* the office, Obama doesn’t appear to have the ability to STFU and listen.
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I suspect it would rapidly become pointless for me to remain.
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Mew
Yeah, I have to stand by what I said yesterday. No way could I keep it “respectful”, because the man is so contemptible.
Was the purpose of the meeting so he could seek advice? I would have though he just wanted to try and get the reporters to say things he wanted them to say.