Obama on the View: Leaves U.S. with Questions

The president’s appearance on The View, billed as the first-ever by a chief executive on a daytime talk show, was the apotheosis of the anodyne.

Published Jul. 29 2010 8:55AM EDT

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Superlatives, I've now heard them all. Today, as the Varadarajan family huddled expectantly in front of its TV set (son, age 11: " Wow! Obama's on The View!"), we heard Whoopi Goldberg declare that Barack Obama was "the first president in history ever to visit a daytime talk show."

Sure enough,...

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Obama on the View: Leaves U.S. with Questions

The president’s appearance on The View, billed as the first-ever by a chief executive on a daytime talk show, was the apotheosis of the anodyne.

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Tunku Varadarajan