You know, I’m not quite sure how I feel about this. Yes, the Woods affair is a trending topic in today’s society and yes, I’m one that completely follows all of the details on it because I’m an odd, voyeuristic, celebrity gossip lover but it comes across as a little odd when your own President is weighing in on a topic that, well, doesn’t really matter in comparison to a whole lot of things going on around the world. Like, at all.
President O was recently interviewed by People magazine and was asked the Big Question of whether or not Tiger can rehabilitate his life and his marriage. Obama stated (yes, he can):
“I don’t want to comment on his personal relationship with his wife and family, but I’m a strong believer that anybody can look within themselves, find their flaws and fix them.”
The Big O also states that he “suspects that he [Tiger] will try to put his life back together again.” I voted for the current Commander-in-Chief and so far yes, I do think he’s doing a great job but something about him speaking on the Tiger topic kind of rubbed me the wrong way. I mean, it’s not as if President Obama is just another high-profile celebrity adding his two cents on another scandalous celebrity’s downfall, right? He’s the President of the most powerful country in the world. Why bother with such menial things, in the grand scheme, as Tiger’s scheming ways?
I do respect his advice on the topic. President Obama outwardly appears to have a strong and faithful marriage and a wonderfully close-knit family as a result. Obama is a wonderful man and I feel that he has the best intentions of all at heart. There is no love lost between Barack and I, but still … maybe he should be focusing a little more on national security than speaking irreverently to People magazine about the antics of celebrities who’ve fallen from grace.
I agree with you that Tiger Woods’ scandal is irrelevant given what else the President has on his plate. But still, he’s human so he’s still going to want to know what else is going on outside of his political bubble.
I think it’s weirder that of all the things that interviewer could ask our president, given what a difficult time we’re in economically and how much pressure he must be under right now and how many difficult decisions he has to make (thanks, various past presidents, for creating the delicate criss-cross of economic circumstances that led to our collapse and then sticking him with that bag of consequences), THAT’S what s/he picked. What gives, interviewer? I’d be asking for his reasoning on some of those difficult decisions, how his family’s holding up, what methods he’s using to handle the immense stress he’s under, etc.
But I guess since Obama’s part black and Tiger Woods is part black, they must know each other, as part of the non-white people network that we white folks think exists between all blacks, right?
Your last paragraph has nothing to do with anything. Why is race thrown into every single aspect of everything the President says or does??? He’s a MAN, not a black man, not a white man, not half-and-half, but a MAN. They probably asked him that question because he’s, like, the most famous person in the world at the moment, and Tiger’s scandal is enormous. I agree that he probably has bigger fish to fry with everything that’s on his plate, but it probably took a good 5-10 seconds to ask the question and have it answered. It’s not really that big of a deal, I don’t think.
Obama is half black,I never knew that!!
I was, it seems unsuccessfully, being facetious. My apologies. It was a joke. I was trying to reason out what would motivate an interviewer to ask the president about Tiger Woods, being that the only connection between the two men is their racial makeup in largely white professions. It’s a common joke/stereotype that white people think all black people know each other, hence the attempt at humor.
I knew you were being sarcastic,so was I.
Sorry. It’s been a long day.
:c
Meh, I figure he was asked, so he gave an ambiguous one sentence comment on the situation. I think if he contiunally said “No comment” that people would make a bigger deal out of the whole thing, like he actually had something to say about it, so he just got it over with.
The fact that the interviewer thought this was important information to get from the President is another issue entirely. I haven’t read the article, but I assume they then moved on to more Presidential topics?
At least he gave Tiger good, neutral advice. It was a good answer, and they probably went on to discuss more important issues soon after.
Sounds more like the typical politician babble than an actual social comment to me.
Politicians have a set list of key messages that they try to drop in just about every question any reporter could ask of them.
Obama has always used a faith in the good nature of humanity as one of his key messages. He simply used this question as a means of reinforcing that message.
It doesn’t mean that he’s been spending more time reading gossip mags than he has running your country. He’s just responding to a question using his key messages- and to be honest, what type of questions did you expect People Magazine to ask?
It’s a topic that way too many people care way too much about. If he’d avoided the question or otherwise made it sound like he didn’t have a clue what the interviewer was talking about then people would say he’s out of touch with the country. It could be worse, at least Tiger Woods is real. Remember when Tony Blair made a big announcement about how he thought a soap character should be released from jail on the show? That was ridiculous, a brief comment on real events is entirely appropriate. If any one is at fault it’s the interviewer for asking such a frivolous question.
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