President Obama: Hide or Seek?

In the editorial found in the Washington Post, Editor Dana Milbank discusses a strong opinion in an article that reads “Obama pays the price for ducking the questions”.  In this editorial, the author’s audience is obviously for the Republicans and towards the side of potential voters for presidential nominee Mitt Romney.  Dana Milbank points out in his article that President Obama has evaded questions from the media and the public.  Milbank also points out that President Obama has not held nearly as many news conferences as past Presidents in the United States. Milbank backs his opinion with statistics from a Towson University political scientist Martha Kumar, who has kept tallies of all media appearances made by Obama and past U.S presidents. Milbank also recognizes that President Obama does not opt to complete new conferences, but instead he makes appearances on soft-focus interviews such as late-night comedy shows. Milbank shares his opinions on how poorly President Obama did on the recent debate and points out how this is not the first time that Democrats have done poorly on past debates. As my personal opinion to this article, I would have to partially agree with Editor Milbank, but only on the idea that President Obama could have done better on his debate with Presidential nominee Mitt Romney. I believe that President Obama did not show his usual strong articulate and precise way of answering questions and lacked in the strength of his responses to questions posed by Mitt Romney. There is a side that I do not agree with on Editor Milbank’s article.  I believe that a President does not have to hold multiple news conferences in order to be judged as a great leader and President.  What matters the most to me is a President who can handle whatever situation he is faced with, and not how many news conferences he holds or how many questions he answers, after all he is the Commander and Chief of the United States.