‘The View’ Hosts Rip Obama’s Oval Office Address: ‘America Expected More’

“I would have liked some passion,” Candace Cameron Bure adds on ABC daytime talk show

The panelists of “The View” were predictably divided on Monday about President Barack Obama’s address from the Oval Office Sunday night about terrorism and the battle with ISIS.

“America expected more out of the speech and they didn’t get it,” said co-host Paula Faris, who argued that Obama did not say anything new.

Candace Cameron Bure, who often criticizes the president for being too calm and collected, agreed.

“I would have liked some passion, that was one thing that drove me nuts,” she said.

“I know he is even-keeled but it was like, come on,” she said. “We are in a state — there is major terrorism going on! Let’s see that we’re going to do something. So aside from just wanting to see some emotion, I felt like he was talking to us as if we were children.”

“Would you rather he was hysterical?” Whoopi Goldberg retorted in her defense of the president.

“You can watch CNN for that, that’s the problem,” Michelle Collins said. “If you want to get riled up in this country, just turn on the TV, they’re doing that already. There’s fear-mongering everywhere.”

“I can’t wait for whoever to take this job over,” she also said. “It’s time to find out how hard this is. You want to hear this, you want to hear that, this should be happening, we should carpet-bomb this and that. Listen, you’re not going to do anything different than what we’ve been doing because that’s all we can do.”

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