I read what you said which was “And so I’m listening to an old Neil Diamond thing and he’s going, “And no one heard at all / Not even the chair.” And I am thinking, That’s Obama. He doesn’t go to work. He doesn’t go down to Congress and make a deal. What the hell’s he doing sitting in the White House?”. The simple thing that you don’t understand is that White House is the place where Obama, for that matter, any US President, works. BTW, he doesn’t just sit in the White House. He sleeps there too even as he works there!