Obama on The View- A Sign of the Times

Okay so the big news yesterday was that Barrack Obama was on the daytime television, fluff news show, The View. He went on after much criticism from various people and even got a tongue lashing by Rosie O’Donnell. Apparently they didn’t like the fact that a president in office should not be making the talk show circuits, although he has been on The View before and other shows as well, such as David Letterman.

Although I think the man probably has much more important things to do, I wonder what prompted him to want to appear on this show at this time, I thought that he made a pretty good appearance, he is after all a superstar. Everyone was pretty much all aglow at the sight of him and you can just imagine Oprah Winfrey foaming at the mouth that she didn’t get him for her show, and after all she did for him too. Oh well she should have known better than to trust a politician.

I was surprised to see Barbara Walters actually come out of her crypt to appear on the show since she has been taking it easy after her heart procedure recently. I guess the President on her show was too big a thing for her to stay away from.

All in all the President really didn’t answer any important questions and you could tell that he was trying real hard to be witty. He mentioned that The View is one of the few shows that his wife Michelle actually watches and that it was the only one that he would consider appearing on (sorry Oprah) since they do such a good job at presenting the news WHAT? Anyway, he also mentioned that he wasn’t invited to the Wedding of the Century starring Chelsea Clinton. He said that one president at a wedding was enough.

You would’ve thought he was on the campaign trail already the way he went on and on about the war in Afghanistan and he really didn’t answer anything concrete about the war but did a lot of tap dancing around some of the more important questions. He also mentioned that he heard about Lindsey Lohan’s troubles, who hasn’t?

It really is a sign of the times though when you think about it, being the first black president and being the first sitting president to appear on daytime television, he is just infuriating people left and right. Well he did say that he was going to bring some major changes to America and that he did whether the American people like it or not.

Now I do have to admit that I drank the kool-aid and people may critisize me for it if they want but I cant help liking Barack Obama! I certainly am not saying that he is the best president that we have ever had but I don’t think that he will be the worst when it is all said and done. However, I do think he should have rethunk the whole idea of appearing on the show, it felt like he was skipping work, calling in sick when we all know that he wasn’t. I mean isn’t there a country somewhere in need of some assistance? Oh yea the United States does.