RICH GALEN ON THE OBAMA ADMINISTRATION’S FAILURE IN PARIS: “Obama sent no one. No one.”

UPDATE: Jake Tapper: I’m ashamed by U.S. leaders’ absence in Paris.

I find it hard to believe that collectively President Obama, Vice President Joe Biden, Secretary of State John Kerry, Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, Treasury Secretary Jack Lew and Attorney General Eric Holder — who was actually in France that day for a conference on counterterrorism — just had no time in their schedules on Sunday. Holder had time to do the Sunday shows via satellite but not to show the world that he stood with the people of France?

There was higher-level Obama administration representation on this season’s episodes of “The Good Wife” on CBS.

Ouch.

But there’s this: Ron Fournier: Obama’s Mistake Is No Disgrace. I take his point, but I disagree. Either the White House missed an easy PR call, or they’re happy with the message they’re sending. Either way, it’s appalling.

MORE: Dem Strategist Doug Schoen: Obama AWOL in Paris: Message to America, allies is we don’t care. “Sunday, President Obama morally abdicated his place as the leader of the free world.”