I'm constantly amazed and amused by people's perception of what the President does is. I love it when people who have no idea what they're talking about talk about how the President should manage his time.
The President of the United States is probably the hardest job in the entire world. 20 hour days, 7 day weeks. Always "at work", 24/7. When the President is on "vacation", he's still working.
None of you libs get the point. It isn't that he took a few minutes to do it. It's the perception and image.
He doesn't act like we are in a global crisis. People see him doing that, and think he's clueless. Like it or not, he's in the most powerful chair in the world. When the world is in chaos, they look to US leadership.
If Obama was in California right now, assuring people no radiation was coming to the West Coast, and staging relief efforts to Japan from there, while addressing Libya and the economy, that would be a far better image than picking a damn basketball game.
And to Modbert, you just don't get my racial sarcasm. I'm playing the role of a "typical white person". I didn't know I was supposed to be racist until Obama said I was. When he said "typical white persons" are afraid of black people and racist, well, I took his advice and started acting like I was supposed to. Thats whay I said he voted present, then boogied off to eat wings and drink grape Kool Aid while watching basketball. Thats all. Blame Obama, not me.