Monday, September 10, 2012

Obama's presidential record rivaling his senate record

Looks like the president's attendance rating for his daily intelligence briefing is tracking the same way his voting record in the senate did. Looks like a lot of no action taken because he isn't there. and right, reading through the briefing book while sitting on the throne should suffice right?

The gall of the man.  Meanwhile, George Bush rarely missed one for his entire eight years.

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


President Obama is touting his foreign policy experience on the campaign trail, but startling new statistics suggest that national security has not necessarily been the personal priority the president makes it out to be. It turns out that more than half the time, the commander in chief does not attend his daily intelligence meeting.
The Government Accountability Institute, a new conservative investigative research organization, examined President Obama’s schedule from the day he took office until mid-June 2012, to see how often he attended his Presidential Daily Brief (PDB) — the meeting at which he is briefed on the most critical intelligence threats to the country. During his first 1,225 days in office, Obama attended his PDB just 536 times — or 43.8 percent of the time. During 2011 and the first half of 2012, his attendance became even less frequent — falling to just over 38 percent. By contrast, Obama’s predecessor, George W. Bush almost never missed his daily intelligence meeting.

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