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Can you blame him?

Would you want to answer questions about Obama's sh**...er..."budget"???

http://www.whitehousedossier.com/201...waiting-jay-2/

Still Waiting for Jay

by Keith Koffler on February 15, 2011, 12:29 pm

Today is Jay Carney’s second day on the job, and for the second day he is not scheduled to brief. And it’s little wonder. I’ve never seen a new press secretary – particularly one with so little public relations background and no experience doing the daily White House briefing – dropped into the job at such an inopportune moment.

Obama decided to hold a press conference today, giving Jay an excuse to sit out another briefing.

“I figured that I’d give Jay one more taste of freedom before we lock him in a room with all of you,” the president wisecracked. “So I’m here to do a little down field blocking for him.”

But the concerns about putting Carney on the field must be real. The novice spokesman will want to make sure he’s completely ready, and his bosses probably don’t mind keeping him on ice for awhile.

Carney for years was a mere reporter and only began flacking two years ago when he took the job of cleaning up Vice President Biden’s various communications crises. So while it’s been a busy two years for him, it’s still only been two years.

And now he’s got the world’s most important PR job. And the world is not making it easy.