Is President Obama confident about his plan in Libya?
That was the question some lawmakers asked themselves during a meeting at the White House last Friday. Speaking to two dozen members of Congress, and several more on the phone, the president tried to sell his thinking on the U.S. and NATO intervention.
During a radio interview with the Michigan Talk Network's Michael Patrick Shielsshow on Wednesday morning, the host asked Michigan Republican Rep. Mike Rogers, who was in the meeting, whether the president knew what he was talking about.
"Let me just say that he had to read his statement in the Situation Room," Rogers said. "I just found that a little shocking." (Listen to the exchange, which starts at 1:57.)
"Like going off crib notes?" the host asked.
Rogers appeared to catch himself for violating the unwritten rule that conversations in the Situation Room are kept private. But he did make one more pass at the president. "Let me just leave it at that. We don't have all the discussions that we probably shouldn't discuss. But I was a little surprised that he had to read his statement to a working group of individuals trying to figure out if this was the right thing to do or not."
Shiels, the host, made a quip about whether notes were written on his hand (they weren't), but for Rogers, the reading of notes in a small working meeting did call into question how much President Obama believed what he was saying—and just how tightly White House officials are sticking to a script of talking points on the situation in Libya.
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