Pirate's Cove

The more things change the more they stay the same

But top adviser Valerie Jarrett said Obama will take a different approach to governing in the new year, spending more time mixing and mingling with the public.

In an interview on NBC’s “Meet The Press,” Jarrett said Obama is concerned that he’s spending too much time in Washington.

“He often says that this is his biggest regret is that when he took office, because of the crisis that was presented to him, he had to spend almost every waking hour in Washington focusing very hard on finding a resolution. And what he missed sorely was the engagement with the American people,” Jarrett said.

As Ed Morrissey points out

Obama didn’t exactly have a drought of face time with the public. Whether he appeared on The View, Oprah, The Tonight Show, or on scores of television news interviews as well as actual campaign appearances, Obama made himself nearly ubiquitous in the media. Instead of connecting with the electorate, the constant media appearances left voters with the impression of a dilettante presidency, one in which the Chief Executive allowed the White House to operate on auto-pilot — or worse, Pelosi-pilot.

Add to that the constant golf outings, parties, over-seas trips, and the “backyard talks”. Furthermore, I don’t think we can stress enough the numerous campaign appearances and propaganda ad campaigns put forth by Team Obama.

But, on reflection, would an increase of Obama outside the White House (and, preferably, out of the country) be a bad thing? Look at the mess he and his cohorts created with all his face time. It would almost be better to allow the child-president to get out of Washington as much as possible, play 18 on every golf course across the country, hit the links in other countries, do some meet and greets around the world, attend some parties, etc and so on, anything to get him away from attempting to be the CEO of the US of A.

On the flip side, we can be assured that it will not go that way: he will spend his time demonizing all who disagree with Him, turning more voters off, and we’ll get to see his wonderful and childlike petulance.