happened at the irs, i m upset when they knew they d happen. we already had the irs admit they happened. we re seeing it constantly. in the handling of the nsa matter and the handling of the syria policy. the president has to be hands on and the leader and has to be engaged and this guy doesn t appear to be so. it was bad timing. look, i m sympathetic to that too, you don t control all of your calendar. he has to go to the g-8, you have to make use of the days leading into the g-8, you have to ask yourself a serious question, do i want to take extra time out to go speak to germany, when we have so many things going on on the home front i need to be engaged in. we have a president who s disengaged, aloof, and he s that way in his relationship with the members of congress, republican and democratic, he s that way with world leaders, and i think
happened at the irs, i m upset when they knew they d happen. we already had the irs admit they happened. we re seeing it constantly. in the handling of the nsa matter and the handling of the syria policy. the president has to be hands on and the leader and has to be engaged and this guy doesn t appear to be so. it was bad timing. look, i m sympathetic to that too, you don t control all of your calendar. he has to go to the g-8, you have to make use of the days leading into the g-8, you have to ask yourself a serious question, do i want to take extra time out to go speak to germany, when we have so many things going on on the home front i need to be engaged in. we have a president who s disengaged, aloof, and he s that way in his relationship with the members of congress, republican and democratic, he s that way with world leaders, and i think
the idea that someone who is so clearly liberal in this day and age, it s hard to see how someone like him could accomplish the things that he did in the time that he did. you know, it s true, although he also had he and his office in new jersey, i think had a very good reputation when it came to more nuts and bolts constituent services types of things. for a long time, when frank lautenberg was in the senate, the other was bill bradley. the minute bill bradley was elected to the senate in 1978, people were saying he s going to run for president some day. he had a reputation of being sort of aloof from the state s political culture. he can t like to deal with mayors, county political people. sort of these local politician would raise. lautenberg didn t have those
a it transparent and make it effective. with this scandal and all these scandals it shows at best he is a aloof from the process and can t control the reins of the government and is only learning about it with the rest of us on the news so some someone can effectively control government and make them look like a non-actor in these things. heather: i wanted to jump to in. this is perhaps the most damaging, most telling of all the polls we took a look at. more voters are questioning president obama s honesty. for the first time in a fox news poll, less than half of voters think the president is honest. when it comes to a question of integrity and character, how does the president rebuild trust with the american people? take a look at those numbers. i think he has to show or prove that he had no knowledge
mitch mcconnell?! i know the relationship between the president and the press can seem a bit strained at times. some in this room have even accused the president of being distant aloof. when i asked the president about it early, he said, oh? and then walked away. and o brien was able to work in a few jokes at the expense of mitt romney and the nra s wayne lapierre. if in 1995 you told me in 2013 we d have an african-american president with a middle name hussein who was just re-elected to a second term in a sluggish economy, i would have said, oh, he must have run against mitt romney. by the way, no offense, mr. president. i do congratulate you on your victory, but as a late-night comedian, i was kind of pulling for the rich guy whose horse danced in the olympics.