Procrastinator in chief avoids debate prep, visits Hoover Dam instead

Twitchy ^ | October 2, 2012

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Mark Knoller✔ @markknoller

Pres Obama takes another break from debate prep to visit the Hoover Dam.

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President Obama, trembling under the weight of those pesky “constraints of governing,” hasn’t exactly expressed much interest in prepping for tomorrow night’s presidential debate. In fact, just yesterday, he was whining about having to stay inside to do his debate homework. A drag, indeed. Evidently, the all work and no play got to be too much for the dull boy, and he took a field trip to the Hoover Dam.

Mark Knoller✔ @markknoller

Pres Obama (center) admires the engineering feat that is the Hoover Dam. (TV POOL photo by Devin Dwyer/ABC News) pic.twitter.com/wECdAL7n

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Mark Knoller✔ @markknoller

"Its spectacular and I've never seen it before," Pres Obama tells reporters about his visit to the Hoover Dam.

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Mark Knoller✔ @markknoller

Pres Obama said an aide told him they were only 15 minutes away from Hoover Dam "and I said well we've got to go check it out."

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Mark Knoller✔ @markknoller

Pres Obama was surprised to learn that most of the power generated at Hoover Dam goes to southern California & not to Las Vegas.

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Edward-Isaac Dovere@IsaacDovere

Obama's questions on 1st visit to Hoover Dam: Where does the power go? How long did it take to build? How many people were killed building?

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During his visit, President Obama made it pretty clear that he did not want to discuss the debate:

Mark Knoller✔ @markknoller

But when reporters started asking about his debate preps, Pres Obama ended the chat and turned away.

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Leading some to express concern that his priorities aren’t where they should be:

Molly Ball@mollyesque

I love the Hoover Dam, but what is Obama doing sightseeing the day before the debate?

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David A. Graham@GrahamDavidA

Esp. after reports he's underprepared RT @mollyesque: I love the Hoover Dam, but what is Obama doing sightseeing the day before the debate?

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Molly Ball@mollyesque 2 Oct 12

I love the Hoover Dam, but what is Obama doing sightseeing the day before the debate?

Mr Media Training@MrMediaTraining

Conveying a sense of "I got this," presumably. MT @mollyesque: Love the Hoover Dam, but what is Obama doing sightseeing day before debate?

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Some people also remarked on the similarity between today’s photo op and an MSNBC ad featuring Rachel Maddow at Hoover Dam:

John Podhoretz@jpodhoretz

Obama going to Hoover Dam today. Perhaps he's filming a commercial there for MSNBC.

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Laura Ingraham✔ @IngrahamAngle

"Obama, day bef crucial debate, takes break frm debate prep, for visit at Hoover Dam." Did he film a cheesy "Lean Forward" MessNBC ad there?

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@KnorthernKnight@KnorthernKnight

Obama went to the Hoover dam to remind people of the @maddow Hoover Dam ad's message earlier. Maybe?

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Kombiz Lavasany@kombiz

OMG Rachel @maddow has been there RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Obama at the Hoover Dam. via Reuters pic.twitter.com/VCFIrzD6

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Kristi @KristiIA

RT I see Obama and I hear @maddow “@BuzzFeedAndrew: Obama at the Hoover Dam. via Reuters pic.twitter.com/1z2eAZOY”

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Alex Armstrong@AlexJArmstrong

RT @BuzzFeedAndrew: Obama at the Hoover Dam. via Reuters pic.twitter.com/Mf8Cmmqg // really looks like an MSNBC ad

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It definitely does look familiar …

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Given the president’s reluctance to even acknowledge tomorrow’s debate, it’s entirely possible that he’d rather be leaning forward than brushing up on his debating skills.

[rfp1234]

“Well, my spiritual mentor Rev. Wright said “G_d Dam Amerika!”

[A message]

President 0bama, in this Bazooka Joe comic they ask where Declaration of Independence was signed.

Can you give the answer?

Uh, um, let me be perfectly clear, uh, uh, um, it was signed, uh, at the bottom.

Brilliant! Mr. President. Now to Governor Romney. Governor Romney can you explain how you plan to create even one job in the allotted time of one second.?

I plan.....

Times up.

Back to you, President 0bama. We have another Bazooka Joe comic to quiz you on....

[Hildy]

I flew into McCarron in Vegas today and the cab driver pointed out Air Force One. Never in my life did I think that the site of Air Force One would turn my stomach.. But it did.

[taketheredpill]

Why would he need to prep, he supplied the questions to his buds in the so-called press.

[riri]

His bevavior is quite odd.

[Yaelle]

Does he, could he, wear a wire?

[Mouton]

He is not worried, his people have preped the questioners about what to ask.

First question to POS: Do you recall how you felt when you killed Osama.

First question to Romney: How can you belong to a church who denied heaven to blacks. Don’t you think that is kind of racist?

Next question to POS: When you and the lovely first lady go on vacation, who decides where you will go?

Next question to Romney: How do you live with your decision to have been a principal of a preditory firm like Bain which moved jobs overseas, closed domestic companies and removed benefits from over worked and under paid employees of firms which were bought by Bain?

and so on.

[Ezekiel]

Excellent work. Are you related to Bender? ;-)

[wardaddy]

He doesn't need to prep

the media will softball him with slow pitches over the plate and look for questions to box in hapless Romney

and being hapless..Romney will not attack them over it like Newt did and cling to his Barack the socialist trying to extinguish the culture of evil mostly old dead white guy America is afterall a nice guy

it is the stupidest run campaign I have seen in my life next to Dole..it's worse than McCain

just look at his advisers...who's who of RINO putas like Gillespie and other GOP moderates of this era..same fools who are experts at grasping defeat from the jaws of victory and who were the quickest to distance themselves from Reagan after his last term

sickening...

he may pull it off given the hatred for Obama but it won't be cause he did shite right

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Several years ago, people accused GWB of using a radio to “cheat” during a debate.

I wouldn’t put it beyond the teleprompter reader in chief to actually have some sort of plan along similar lines so he can get through without sounding like some sort of ghetto thug not having TOTUS to carry him along.

That would explain his apparent lack of interest in preparing.

[Let's Roll]

You nailed it!

[A message]

The works of Roscoe Karns are inspirational.

[Major Matt Mason]

what if we held an election where both major candidates didn’t want that job?

I was thinking this very same thing the other day. I've never seen a race where it looks like neither candidate wants the job, until now, that is. They've probably both been informed of bad things on the horizon and would rather curl up into the fetal position.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

"Oh, the water is on the OTHER side, I see.. What's with the countdown I hear on the loudspeaker in the distance?"

[BobL]

It seemed like Obama was praising Hoover Dam. Nice...impressive dam, and very impressive project. Money invested by the federal government that STILL is returning bank.

So, what are Obama’s Hoover Dams: Solyndra, and related? Maybe his plan (if not already done) to take down multiple dams in the Northwest, because the Sierra Club demands it.

No, Hoover Dam represents everything that Obama is not - it was a (rare) wise investment by the feds, and it created REAL JOBS, and HUGE GROWTH for this country.

[Obama_Is_Sabotaging_America]

That was frickin’ brilliant! True was never so funny!!!

[CitizenM]

When DOES this guy work at the job of being president?

Rehearsing for the debates for several days and sightseeing, too. And I bet he spends his evenings watching Honey Boo-Boo shows so he can catch up on what's going on in the world. That is when he is not watching tapes of himself on The View or Letterman.

[Ezekiel]

it is the stupidest run campaign I have seen in my life next to Dole..it's worse than McCain

One debate comparision I shutter to think about is one to... Jack Kemp.

If Mitt starts channeling Kemp, well then the GOP is purposely dousing itself in petrol and lighting the match.

The meek submission to the abusive "partner" needs to stop. All of America senses this. Even the Kenyan and the rest of his bully rats and rabble have got to be wondering when the their victims will punch back.

These miscreants and destroyers are like toddlers awaiting proper discipline. Only worse because they are old enough to know better, but choose to create chaos. They sure won't right themselves on their own.

[Just mythoughts]

Obama is asking how many ‘solar panels’ it would take to create the energy that Hoover Dam creates?

[Ezekiel]

I was thinking already, that Roscoe could improve one of these images. You know, like with idiot destroyer Obama pushing a device timer ala Wile. E. Coyote.