Presidential Super Bowl Interview; Buzz Kill

5 weeks ago

Katie Couric White House Interview During Super Bowl Preview

After a decent couple of hours of a Super Bowl preview, CBS ran a live, softball interview between Katie Couric and President Obama that covered many of the areas of interest to the American public. The result; finger pointing and excuses.

National Security

Should the Christmas Day bomber have been read his Miranda rights after only 50 minutes of "interrogation"? According to the President, this 50 minutes was sufficient as we got actionable intelligence out of him. Did we get all of it? Most probably not, but the President seemed fine with that. Should the terror trial be held in NYC. Not if the police, the people and the mayor don't want it there.
Is that how a president makes decisions? By consensus or by the polls?

All in all, this was a platform for the President to place blame and give excuses for much of what has gone wrong in his first year.

Healthcare

The President, in recent statements has said that he did not adequately articulate the basics of the healthcare proposal that he and the Democrats in Washington tried to ram through. This is a bit surprising given the number of town hall meetings and television appearances by the President and his minions.

After the full-court press that was put on by Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid and the rest of the administration, the President commented that he has been frustrated by the process. That the giveaways to certain states was not something that made him particularly happy. This seems disingenuous at best, a potential jumble of the truth to say the worst.

Some quick observations, but the end result is that this was merely more of the same. A friendly interview by the main stream media and rhetoric from the President lacking in any substance.