Posted on 09/23/2012 11:02:24 AM PDT by smoothsailing
“phone it in” -
Perform an act in a perfunctory, uncommitted fashion, as if it didn’t matter.
There is so much truth there!
Yep, that’s our president—when he isn’t hoping to fundamentally change our Constitution and deflate the position of America in the world.
Yah, he can just text them.
Used to be, Presidents met with presidents, prime ministers, heads of state.
Obama meets with agitprop media whores. I feel that America is so embarrassed by this islamist communist jerk.
It’s all or nothing with Obama. He’s the all, we’re the nothing.
Oh please someone make a picture of an empty chair with a red phone sitting on it.
Now put a red telephone on the chair.
Phone on Chair Rings.
Voice Over: “There’s a man on the phone”, what if that man has something important to say, Shouldn’t we talk to the man?
Remember “there is a bear in the woods”?
I actually agree that the POTUS does not need to meet with foreign leaders except on very rare occasions. In fact, there is a whole litany of things the POTUS should not do, because it overloads their job with inefficiency and waste.
How about this for a list?
1) The State of the Union was given in writing from Thomas Jefferson to Woodrow Wilson. Today it wastes a huge amount of time and money to give a pathetic dog & pony show. Go back to giving it in writing.
2) The POTUS should delegate ceremonial and recreational activities, like throwing out baseballs. He should limit even military memorials to Memorial Day.
3) The most common reason to meet foreign leaders should be to sign treaties. The background to such treaties should be done in advance by functionaries of both governments.
4) The POTUS, by act of congress, should be forbidden from visiting disaster areas, or even flying over them at low altitude. All he can do there is get in the way, and he is *less* capable for helping there than he is back in his office.
5) The length of the presidential campaign should be limited by act of congress, so that the POTUS doesn’t have to spend the last year or more of his time in office campaigning.
Fine, so let him call David Letterman,Joy Behar,Whoopie Goldberg and go Meet with BiBi in Person and Devise a Plan to annihilate the Muslim Horde!
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