President Obama Misses More Than Half of Intelligence Briefings
Being president of the United States is a huge job. There is tremendous pressure. You have to attend an endless series of events, meet with an endless series of people and make an endless series of decisions. All while displaying confidence in your policies regardless of whether they are working out.
No one person can handle all those duties by himself. That’s why presidents have a number of different advisers who brief them daily on what’s going on and provide them with advice on how to handle many different situations. The daily, morning intelligence sessions are essential for a president who wants to stay up to speed with all the issues and not allow minor, manageable problems to become major, unsolvable problems.
Well, I think you know where I’m going with this. The non-partisan Government Accountability Institute recently revealed that President Barack Obama has attended less than one-half of his daily intelligence briefings since taking office in 2009. He attended just over 42 percent of the briefings during his first term and has attended just over 41 percent of the meetings during his second term.
Now, I understand that it’s difficult to attend a meeting when you’re on vacation. He and his family take a lot of vacations that we taxpayers pay millions of dollars to support. And I understand that it’s tough to attend a meeting when you’re out on the golf course.
But to attend fewer than 50 percent of your intelligence briefings over the course of nearly six years, well, you have to be doing some serious hooky playing to reach that level. But this does start to explain a few things, doesn’t it?
Underestimating the strength of foreign threats…underestimating the potential for deadly diseases entering the U.S.…underestimating the harm that can come from having a porous Mexican border…perhaps they are all the result of our president refusing to listen to the updates and advice that we’re paying his advisers to give him on a daily basis.
How do you feel about having a president who can’t even attend one-half of the important daily intelligence briefings that are designed to keep him up to speed with what’s going on in the world?
I really don’t understand why people are still asking the same questions about Obama, after 8 years. If they would have done even the slightest bit of research into this phony, lie machine, they would have known A LONG TIME AGO what was going to happen. His life is a lie. His books are lies. He is an arrogant, narcissist, socialist. He is and always has been, a lazy, shiftless, song-and-dance, snake oil salesman. And America says “ooooooh he talks so good” They don’t recognize that ooooooh he’s so full of s h i t and the lies roll off his tongue so smoothly. That’s because he is a life long, practiced liar.
What do you expect from a narcissist? Doesn’t that personality type know everything? He avoids hearing and seeing the truth. Make America Great Again…Put America First…Vote for TRUMP!
I wonder what % of daily briefings President Reagan
attended? I bet he attended unless he was very sick, or dealing with another crucial problem. Now THERE was a President !
He does not attend because he knows damn well what is happening, he’s worked with those who want America destroyed so he just sits by and waits. Long gone and sooner than later.
At least that is a better percentage than the meetings he made with his Jobs Council his first term! Remember the Jobs Council? Not many people do, since he did not make on meeting and finally, in 2012, disbanded it! One of the most pathetic excuses, not only for a President, but for a human being as well! Obama is pure Sewer Scum!
obama does not need to go to intelligence meetings he already sees himself as the most intelligent person in any room he is in! If he sees himself as more intelligent then those giving the intelligence briefings why go. Now I guess you understand why he does “not” attend. Life is tough for those who are so much more intelligently superior then the rest of us. Us little people just don’t get it! He is the KING (in his eyes).
Just goes to show “another black family in govt housing”, this is what he is all about…FREE!
SInce he does not abide by the “LAW OF THE LAND” because he is an illegal anyway than that just proves that ALL OF THESE SO CALLED RULES AND REGS are void of any acceptance by the Constitition For The United States of America.
Had Herman Cain, Ben Carson, Artur Davis, Alan Keyes, Condoleezza Rice, JC Watts, or Allen West been president would you still object because they were black?
By the way, Mr. (intentional) Obama is a legal US citizen; a Native Born Citizen, BUT NOT a Natural Born Citizen. Thus he’s ineligible to be president.
What do you expect? He didn’t appoint those “advisors” to advise him; they were appointed because they are idiot wackos who agree with him.
As the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces, he is subject to military law. He is AWOL , court martial him!
He is a fraud, a traitor and has violated the Constitution and his oath of office. Indict him, you spineless worthless Congress!
Where did you see that in the Constitution? As a civilian leader he’s not subject to the UCMJ. Don’t know we’ve CIVILIAN oversight of the military?
However, by the definition in the Constitution, Mr. Obama HAS COMMITTED treason. So the House should’ve impeached (indicted) him and the Senate should’ve convicted him. Then he should’ve faced indictment, trial, conviction, and the appropriate punishment for HIGH treason since lives were lost in Benghazi. But as you pointed out, Congress is spineless.
I AM JUST PUTTING THIS OUT FOR COMMENTS
IF OBAMA WAS IN HAWAII WHEN HE TURNED 18 YO AND HE WAS AN AMERICAN CITIZEN DID HE REGISTER FOR THE DRAFT? THESE RACORDS CANNOT BE BLOCKED , IF NOT HE IS NOT A LEGAL OFFICE HOLDER——- JUST SAYING
Sadly, Mr. (intentional) Obama by Executive Order has sealed his records.
By the way, not registering for the draft does not disqualify someone from holding public office, although perhaps it should.
Maybe he couldn’t understand the intelligences reports?
He just wanted to play golf and spend the taxpayers money on his lavish vacations.
I sincerely doubt this type of performance would be tolerated in the US military or in most civilian jobs; what a terrible example for our commander-in-chief. This information should be headline news in the mainstream press!
Obama is a typical damned lazy ass democrat good at one thing….getting his crap for free. He wants a free ride. Hell he’s been on a free ride most his entire adult life. Biggest problem I have with it is that he has been the most incompetent,lazy,lying,deceitful and divisive excuse for a man who is supposed to be the exact opposite. He literally should be impeached for his treasonous actions regarding the Bowe Bergdal case. That was pure treason. Lying about Bengazi as well. We don’t need anymore reasons than we already have in order to do so. Why it hasn’t been done,well now that falls on our incompetent, lazy, lying ass congress . And yet another topic of interest we can debate over at a later time. Sick of this lack of action from our alleged elected officials. Need to fire them ALL. Problem solved.Case closed..
Com’on people! You bitch about Obama missing a meeting; yet, your own congressmen and women, not to leave out your State Representatives; not only miss meetings but crucial voting. Shoot, I’ve seen these so called public servants miss 80% of their meetings; while screwing you the voter out of some vital public service in the name of their own self interest.
If we hold the President’s feet to the fire then you should be angry enough to hold all of those lazy politician’s feet to the fire. Man, what a bonfire that would make.
I am more concern about the action or inaction that President Obama takes. After all, here is the only president that OPENLY avoids congress with his Executive Orders affecting the citizens of this country. Why don’t you get pissed off about that? Why don’t you do something about it. If a man holds a gun to your head, are you going to let him pull the trigger or do something? You may get shot, you may die; but at lease you made your move to save yourself. So what are you going to do now? Bitch about missed meetings or the over use of Executive Orders? The way I look at it, it is better that he misses these meeting – just think of the damage he would do if he was there. It is the lesser of two evils – don’t you think? I do.
It would be a waste of everyone’s time; he’s too stupid to remember anything from an “intelligence” meeting.
Find all that info on BO’s been a non US born citizen and everything dictator 0bama signed will be all void. The congress needs to there job. They are afraid of the first black dictator, that’s why
It is a hard Job and at the same time he would not let anyone to coco wash him, with briefings …..they are a lot of interest of issues ….any ways could no do much …..congress don’t let him do it and is best he relax to get energy to fight back in the issues…..at least now we have gas low in price …..that help a lot in this bad economy…somebody is doing something right.
Frank,
We’d better get rid of him now before he gives all the illegals amnesty.
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HE HAS JUST ONE PURPOSE-DESTORYING OUR WAY OF LIFE, THE CONSTITUTION, BILL OF RIGHTS. THAT IS WHY HE DOES NOT ATTEND. IT IS NOT HIS AGENDA, JUST KILL OUR IMAGE, MAKE HIM DICTATOR, DESTROY 200 YEARS OF HARD WORK AND SACRIFICE MORE OUR MILITARY. GET HIM GONE.
GEORGE BUSY WOULD HAVE BEEN EMABRASSED TO PLAY GOLF AND SKIP STRAGETIC MEETINGS OF ANY KIND. WHAT OATH OF OFFICE DID HE TAKE. BEN CARSON, SAYS IT BORDERS ON TREASON SOME OF HIS ACTS. IMPEACH HIM NOW BEFORE HE CONTINUES TO DESTROY OUR IMAGE–WHICH IS WHAT HE IS TRYING TO DO IN HE FIRST PLACE. GET HIM FIRED NOW, PLEASE CONGRESS PEOPLE.
This would explain why he has no clue about what is going on in the world. The big problem is he writes presidential orders based on this ignorance and they are what is causing the majority of the trouble. I believe his failure to attend should be grounds for impeachment as how can he truly perform his job without having the correct information upon which to base his decisions.
“INTELLIGENCE” briefings? The word intelligence would suggest you would need to have some before you would be able to understand what was being said at such a briefing. That certainly leaves our “fearless” leader out. WAYYYY OUT IN LEFT FIELD!!!!!
Obama is more worried about his golf game than his job as President of the United States. Given his overall (in)competence, maybe we should be thankful.
Obama doesn’t want to waste his time hearing professionals tell him stuff. He knows what he wants to do, and he won’t let facts get in his way, and that’s what counts. This is the occupier of the White House, and he won’t change.
No wonder he says that he gets his information from the news papers.
He is duping us Americans and not earning his salary as he is going it alone and leaving out Congress. He doesn’t live up to his swearing in of the
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What, if anything, is the White House Staff and Federal Officials plan to do during the transition, when Obama leaves the White House. Clintons stole everything they could get their hands. Truly amazing the amount of theft Bill and Hillary has taken from the U.S. taxpayers. I have no doubt, Obamas, Biden’s and all the White House staff will steal anything and quite literally everything they can get their smelly, greasy, slimy, sweaty, stinking hands on. Who’s responsible for all the theft Obama and Biden will do as they get the hell out, don’t ever come back all you stinking greedy, lying, cheating, scum sucking bastards.
My comment is particularly addressed to all the lefty “Bush-bashers”, including Obama himself, who are still blaming George for our country’s problems. Obama is the worst president ever! Worse than Andrew Johnson. Worse than Herbert Hoover. And speaking of Hoover, Obama sucks worse than a vacuum cleaner. He’s a liar and a closet communist, with no qualifications for the job the morons voted him into. Our country must be truly great to have survived 6 years of BO’s administration without complete economic and social collapse.
Hey Frank, you criticize Obama a lot, and that’s fine, he’s the one they picked to stand up there and take the shots, but really, what difference does it make that he attends or doesn’t attend intelligence briefings? He’s just a drone. He reads a teleprompter. His most important meetings are the ones where they explain to him the talking points that covers the agenda. He’s just running interference. For who, Frank? Dig deeper. Once you know who, you’ll figure out why.