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Obama slammed for filling out NCAA bracket during Japan crisis
By: Bill O'ReillyMarch 16, 2011
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MarketWatch: President Obama's interview with ESPN on his NCAA basketball tournament picks is getting slammed from some Republicans. They say it's bad form given the deadly disaster in Japan, worsening violence in Libya and stalemate over the U.S. budget at home.

"How can Barack Obama say he is leading when he puts his NCAA bracket over the budget and other pressing issues?" Reince Priebus, the Republican National Committee chairman, tweeted Wednesday.

Fred Thompson, the TV actor, former Tennessee senator and onetime presidential candidate also chimed in on the blog of the conservative website of National Review.

The "difference between President Obama and the rest of us is that we aren't calling a meeting of the White House communications staff to rehearse our bracket unveils for a national TV audience while ducking national-security issues, budget negotiations, Social Security reform meetings ... you get the idea," Thompson wrote.
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