President Obama to Barbara Walters: 'I Don't Think About Sarah Palin'

[babylonsister]

President Obama to Barbara Walters: 'I Don't Think About Sarah Palin'
In Exclusive Interview, Obama Says He's Focused on Being 'Best Possible President'


In an exclusive interview with Barbara Walters from the White House, President Barack Obama says he's not giving much thought to the 2012 election, but is focusing instead on being "the best possible president." And, he said, he certainly isn't focused on a potential challenge from former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

When asked specifically if he thinks he can beat Sarah Palin in 2012, the president told Walters "I don't think about Sarah Palin."

Watch more of Barbara Walters' interview with the Obamas on "A Barbara Walters Special: A Thanksgiving Visit with President and Mrs. Obama" airing Friday, Nov. 26 at 10 pm ET

"Obviously Sarah Palin has a strong base of support in the Republican Party and I respect those skills," Obama said. "But I spend most of my time right now on how I can be the best possible president. And my attitude has always been, from the day I started this job that if I do a good job and if I'm delivering for the American people the politics will take care of itself.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. That'll chap her ass.

I'm pretty sure that few things bother the grandstanding, publicity-hogging Mrs. Mooseburger more than not being thought about.

[dennis4868]

2. Ummm Mr. President....

what skills are you referring to that Palin has? She can tweet, I will give you that. What other skils do you mean? She is a liar but that can hardly be considered a skill.

[liberal N proud]

He was trying to be nice

[dennis4868]

10. No doubt about that.....

[young but wise]

3. LOL

Don't blame him one bit.

[WI_DEM]

The media is obsessed with Sarah Palin

[cherokeeprogressive]

26. DU mirrors and amplifies that obsession

tenfold.

[WI_DEM]

4. The media is obsessed with Sarah Palin

[Kdillard]

6. Pretty much.

[AndrewP]

5. I like that. Funny.

[bigdarryl]

7. I just love this man the way he doesn't answer these media DICK HEADS questions the way they want

Barbara is just trying to get some shit started with him and Palin that was TACKY as hell I'm glad he didn't take the bait

[Blue Owl]

8. Now if the rest of the country would please join President Obama

in not thinking about Sarah Palin, we'd all be in a better place.

[treestar]

14. That says it!

[FLyellowdog]

16. I agree. nt

[FLyellowdog]

17. Or at least I think I do.

What if she sneaks up behind us and clubs us to death? :scared:

[DrToast]

9. "I don't have time to watch reality TV."

[Donald Ian Rankin]

11. Dishonest, but a nice put-down.

I'm quite sure Obama is thinking quite hard about 2012 election strategies and Palin features significantly in that thinking. But this is a nice put-down nonetheless.

[Hippo_Tron]

15. Actually right now I bet it's the truth

A year from now if Sarah Palin is leading the GOP field I have no doubt that the President will be thinking about her. But for the next year the fate of his re-election will be determined far more by what he does as President than what happens in the GOP primaries (which haven't even begun yet). Right now his focus is probably on dealing with Boehner and the new congress full of tea-baggers.

[Arkana]

12. That's the best answer he could have given.

Aside from "Sarah who?", that is.

[maxsolomon]

13. we should follow his lead

as should TV

[HipChick]

18. +100

[Whisp]

19. [phone]. I like to ignore the idiotPalin. hard to keep hiding threads here tho.

[one_voice]

20. Her ego will not allow this to go...

unanswered. I say by the end of the weekend, she'll say something. She absolutely cannot stand any type of criticism.

edited to clarify that Palin will consider this a dismissal ergo criticism.

[and-justice-for-all]

21. Well I hope the hell not....

she is irrelevant and so 2008.

[mandy11]

22. Not many people do. It sure would be nice if this board wasn't OBSESSED with her.

[JBoy]

24. LOL. At least 11% of your posts are in Palin threads.

[mandy11]

27. Pretty low % considering half the threads are about her or her clan

But oops.... my % just went up.

[watercolors]

23. wish m=the MSM would spend less time on Sarah!!

nt

[HipChick]

25. Roland Martin said it best..

"the Kim Kardashian of politics." Palin is "making a ton of money. We're trying to figure out why. It's the same as Kim Kardashian and Paris Hilton....She quit her job because she wanted to go out and be a celebrity."

"the media goes ga ga over whatever she says. Palin is often wrong. She's a former governor who quit her job rather than tough it out." "She holds no position; wants no accountability; and wants to sling arrows and then gets angry when called on the carpet 4 her nonsense." "At the end of the day, Sarah Palin is the Kim Kardashian of Politics. She's a celebrity with no real purpose other than picking up a check."

[Manifestor_of_Light]

28. He should have given them a Lyndon Johnson line

when they asked him about Snooki.

Lyndon once said, "What kind of a chickenshit question is that to ask the Leader of the Free World?"


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I'm glad he said he didn't think about Caribou Barbie. I love it when he refuses to get involved in personality conflicts and they call him all sorts of names.

On the Joy Behar Show they were talking about Sarah and Bristol and the caption in the bottom right hand corner of the screen was "ATTACK OF THE PALINS" :rofl: