Unscripted

So, everyone is commenting on the fact that the Obama hasn't done as many press conferences as his predecessors, even George Bush; the last one being July 22, 2009. The twitter was caused by an impromptu appearance at a WH press briefing yesterday. The libs use this as evidence against those who say that the president is over exposed. Quite to the contrary, the president is never out of the view of a camera or a voice recorder, the president is everywhere all of the time to the point that he has become just one more bit of noise in an already over noisy world. He is just like the buzz from an un-tuned radio. The reason he doesn't do impromptu meetings with the press is that he cannot control the event. He has to have all of the events he attends scripted and closely controlled. Out of the blue questions are not allowed - he cannot answer them. If he gets the questions before an event he has time for his entourage to come up with a PC answer. Then he can get up before the cameras and his Teleprompter and sound like a great sage addressing the country's deepest concerns. In the end it's just more static in the air.