Posted on 03/29/2011 2:15:08 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Brokaw Feels for Obama: No President in 'My Adult Lifetime' Has Had to Face So Many Problems By Geoffrey Dickens Created 03/29/2011 - 4:12pm
Tom Brokaw appeared on Tuesday's Today show to offer his analysis of Barack Obama's Libya policy, as well as his empathy for a president who has experienced more "unexpected circumstances" than any Oval Office occupant has seen in his "adult lifetime." Today co-host Matt Lauer prompted the former NBC Nightly News anchor to tell the audience what he told him right before going on air - that he couldn't "recall a time where a president has faced a confluence of events, like the confluence of events taking place right now."
Brokaw, who did qualify his response noting that FDR did have his share of "challenges," went on to specify that from the Libya crisis, to the disaster in Japan, to the budget fight he's never seen a president have it so bad, as seen in the following March 29 Today show exchange:
MATT LAUER: You mentioned something to me when you first walked in the studio this morning. You said that you haven't, in your memory, you can't recall a time where a president has faced a confluence of events, like the confluence of events taking place right now. Just explain that.
TOM BROKAW: Well in my adult lifetime. Certainly FDR did have these challenges. But in my adult lifetime and as a reporter, here you have a president who has two wars underway, is engaged in really what is a third war. The world's third largest economy, Japan, has been gravely wounded by a tsunami and an earthquake - now has a nuclear meltdown. One of the principle members of the President's national security team said to me last night, "I'm more worried about that, than I am about Libya." And then we have, here at home, a recession that we cannot completely get out of yet. And political paralysis in Washington over the budget. All of that has arrived at, at the Oval Office, at the same time. Now when presidents get elected, that's their job. Is to take on the big, the big assignments, the big challenges. But there have been few that have come as swiftly as all of these have from unexpected circumstances.
LAUER: Tom Brokaw, Tom always good to have you here and lend your perspective. I appreciate it.
BROKAW: Great, my pleasure Matt.
Brokaw’s still alive?
No president in your adult life has been so thouroughly incompetent.
They need to use Brokaw in the Geico “living under a rock” commercial!
Too many problems for the boy king?
Solution: resign immediately.
Can’t Handle the Job??
Get the F out and get your a$$ back to Kenya you stinking commie Muslim bast*ard....
And take your fat a$$ed wife with you and her frigging garden.
No President in 'My Adult Lifetime' Has Had to Face Created So Many Problems
Yeah, 9/11 was a walk in the park...
So many problems... so many tee times canceled.
No President in 'My Adult Lifetime' Has Had to Face caused So Many Problems
Ya gotta understand Tommy. Barry and his Middle East instigator, Hillary, brought these “problems” on themselves. It’s all part of the plan.
Tommy has a man-crush
One journalist interviewing another journalist.....they are pathetic.....as pathetic as Obomba.
such a idiot ‘dip shit’...
Zero has crerated the budget crisis and the lingering recession and the border issues, etc, etc, duh.
Riiightt!!
Obama has brought a lot of his troubles on himself, or made them worse.
Hey Tom, Obuggery has caused more than 80% of the problems he faces!
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