Obama on 'The View' - Video

Obama appears on The View this morning.

Maybe next week he'll be on The Price is Right.

"Barack Obama! Come on down!"

Here's a little video tease from ABC News:



Obama greeted each View lady with a kiss before taking his seat on the set. All that kissing was like Richard Dawson on Family Feud. Very strange.

Obama began by delivering an obviously rehearsed line: "I was trying to find a show that Michelle actually watched, and so I thought that this is it, right here. All those new shows, she's like, 'eh, let me get the clicker.'"

The "clicker"?

Like, is that really what Michelle does and says?

Here's another video snippet, a typical Barbara Walters question:



Every rose has its thorn.

In an exclusive preview clip that aired on "World News" tonight, Barbara Walters asked the president what the recent high and low points of his time in office had been.

"In the last month what has been the rose and what has been the thorn?" she asked, referring to an Obama family tradition of taking stock of their lives.

"In the last month the rose has to be a couple of days we took in Maine with Michelle, Sasha and Malia," he said. "They're full of opinions and ideas and observations and it's just a great age ... Malia just turned 12 and Sasha 9. Couldn't been a better couple of days."

Asked what the "thorn" had been, the president answered with his own question.

"Where do I begin?" he asked, getting a laugh from the audience.

"Obviously the country has gone through a tough stretch. Since I took office when I was sworn in ... the last 20 months have been a nonstop effort to restart the economy, to stabilize the financial system, to make sure we are creating jobs and not losing them."

Obama also cited the BP oil spill and battling the H1N1 swine flu "pandemic" as recent thorns.

H1N1?

What an odd thing for Obama to bring up, especially since the government bungled that so badly! Anyway, that was hardly a recent "thorn."

It's one thing for a candidate to go on The View, but a sitting U.S. President?

Embarrassing.

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