The specific question that caused Obama to exit stage left was regarding what he and Clinton discussed.... Obama didn’t know how to answer the basic question about the economy which the reporter was alluding to so he ran out of the room. Obama is in over his head and he leaves all meetings/press conferences when the questions become specific. If Obama hasn’t been given the question and answer ahead of time, in order to memorize the answer, he quickly leaves the meeting. FACT
Reporter: What was your advice to president Obama today about how to deal with the Congress in the opposition party?
Clinton: I have a general rule which is that whatever he asks me about my advice, and whatever I say should become public only if he decides to make it public. He can say whatever he wants, but we....
Obama: Here’s what I’ll say, I’m keeping the first lady waiting, for about half an hour, so I’m gonna take off.
Right there shows Obama was squirming and was unable to answer the reporter’s question about his meeting with Bill Clinton. Obama is not intelligent. He can memorize lines and he’s more of an actor. Which is why he prefers the tele-prompter. He doesn’t remember nor does he understand what Clinton said in their meeting and decided to exit stage left to avoid any specific question. Obama likes to schoomz and is superficial in his interactions with others. He couldn’t tell the reporter what he and Clinton discussed because he didn’t understand what Clinton was saying.
Well done. Does this thread ever end?
He's one of the best at that of anyone I've ever seen.
Obama works in random ways to be sure, but it wasn’t necessarily because he couldn’t answer the question. It could have been that he was embarrassed by any more suggestions from the press that would leave him looking weaker and incompetent in comparison to Clinton.
What Barry-O said, in introducing him, was “I’m going to let him speak very briefly...And then I’ve actually got to go over and do just one more Christmas party. So he may decide he wants to take some questions, but I want to make sure that you guys hear it from him directly.”
The impression is that they’ll just be a few minutes. Barry hung around, expecting Bill to mouth a few platitudes and close it out. Little did he know.
Obama dropped the Christmas Party hint early on and fully expected Clinton to take him up on it. After a brief policy statement lauding the tax plan, they would leave the room together and that would be that.
Basically both got more than they bargained for when the president left him.