"The President, you have to grant him, he is speedy in his retorts"

Speedy retorts? Have you never caught him when he was taking questions? He hems and haws, and drags his thirty-second answer out to fifteen minutes with "uhhhh", "ahhhh", and again "uhhhhhh".

I'm very certain his "quick retorts" are all scripted. Take this case, where he came back right away with "That's your job." He was told to tell them "That's your job" in every case in which it was possible. He probably has six other generic answers as well.

In the case of being asked about appearing on the View, that answer very obviously was at the ready.