President Obama Visits “The View”

He’s always been in touch with American Popular Culture, and earlier today (July 29) President Barack Obama was on “The View” to talk about all kinds of topics.

Giving an overview of his time in office so far, Obama explained, "When I was sworn in ... we were losing at that time 750,000 jobs per month, the economy was shrinking at a pace of about 6.5 percent — which is unheard of since the Great Depression — and so the last 20 months has been a non-stop effort to restart the economy, to stabilize the financial system, to make sure that we're creating jobs again instead of losing them, and in the midst of all that we've also had the oil spill, we've also had two wars, we've also had a pandemic, H1N1, that we had to manage, and a whole host of other issues.”

He continued, "What has been gratifying is the fact that the economy now is starting to stabilize and grow again, and what's been satisfying is seeing how resilient the American people are. As much as you said it's been tough for me, the truth is, it's not tough for me. ... You think about what the American people have gone through, losing jobs, seeing their home values go down, their 401Ks declining ... I don't spend a lot of time worrying about me. I spend a lot of time worrying about them."

And when asked if he’ll be attending Chelsea Clinton’s wedding this weekend, the President revealed he won’t be there. "It's tough enough having one president at a wedding — you don't want two presidents!"