When Barack Obama appears on Thursday on the homey set of The View, all couches and coffee cups, he can expect laughs and soft questions from “the ladies” – led by television mavens Barbara Walters and Whoopi Goldberg.
In yet another first, Mr Obama will appear on a daytime television chat show, speaking largely to the “soccer mom” demographic about his family’s life inside the White House, the economy and the BP oil spill.

