It is NOT the TIME OFF I mind so much, it is the POLICIES and UTTER LACK of CHANGE for which WE VOTED!
"Maine family vacation is respite for Obama" by Associated Press | July 18, 2010
BAR HARBOR, Maine — After a first vacation day packed with biking, boating, and a visit to the summit of Cadillac Mountain, yesterday’s program was more laid-back.
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The Obamas went to the Bar Harbor Club to play tennis and “hang out’’ at the pool, spokesman Bill Burton said.
Then they motorcaded across Mount Desert Island to a hotel overlooking Southwest Harbor.
Yeah, thanks for gassing up the planet a little more with greenhouse gases.
Lunch was served against a backdrop of sailboats swinging at anchor in a breeze.
Hey, look, it is not like I want him starving; however, one in seven Americans are going hungry -- including 0ne in four children!
The Obamas toured Bass Harbor Head Light, in the southwest corner of Acadia National Park. Built in 1858 on an outcrop overlooking Blue Hill Bay, the lighthouse is run by the Coast Guard. “It looks spectacular,’’ Obama said as he and his family were led on a tour.
They climbed to the top of the light and held fast to its railing as family dog Bo frolicked on a path below. A pair of surprised kayakers paddled in close for a look, and a pleasure boat motored by, its excited passengers jumping to their feet and waving. The Obamas waved back.
The SS didn't clear the area like a day earlier?
After the lighthouse, it was a three-minute motorcade and off they went hiking in the park, which takes in 47,000 acres of island, granite hills, pine forests, and rocky coast.
The three-day vacation was due to end this morning — a respite from the pressures and policy clashes of Washington....
I hate it when vacations end. I guess that's why I never take one!
And BEWARE of the END OF SUMMER, dear Americans and rest of the world.
“The bottom line here is that Americans don’t believe in President Obama’s leadership. He has to find some way between now and November of demonstrating that he is a leader who can command confidence and, short of a 9/11 event or an Oklahoma City bombing, I can’t think of how he could do that.”
The only GOOD THING is THIS TIME WE WILL NOT BE FOOLED!!!
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This next front-page feature from the Globe is what we would call foreshadowing, folks:
“What is it about August?’’
Yes, what is it with PDBs that were ignored in 2001?
You know, "bin laden determined to strike inside United States."
"Vacations are prickly issue for presidents; Obama scrutinized over N.E. getaways" by Mark Arsenault and Susan Milligan, Globe Staff | July 18, 2010
WASHINGTON — Critics are lambasting President Obama for taking a family getaway to Maine this weekend, a preview of what awaits should the first family, as is widely anticipated, return to the pristine beaches of Martha’s Vineyard for a longer vacation next month.
I'm one of them.
How could the Obamas relax on the New England coast, they fume, when the nation is fighting two wars, oil blobs are washing ashore in the Gulf of Mexico, and unemployment remains a stubbornly high 9.5 percent? The Republican National Committee last week launched a snarky website cataloging the president’s recreational activities, including his Maine trip, under the heading: “Play Golf or Save the Gulf?’’
Oh, yeah, the Globe is a true-blue Democrat paper.
That had Coakley beating Brown by double-digits.
Unfair or not, the criticism illustrates how the length, locale, and style of the president’s vacation is loaded with symbolic implications and potential for political trouble, specialists say. This time around, the beaches of the Vineyard could make a jarring, split-screen contrast with scenes from the gulf.
“You’re picking this pristine beach, whereas all the shrimpers are stuck in the muck,’’ said presidential historian Bill Leuchtenberg. But Americans understand presidents need time off. It’s difficult to predict, said Leuchtenberg, whether Obama will pay a lasting price with voters.
Critics routinely pummeled President George W. Bush for his frequent, extended brush-clearing excursions to his Texas ranch: 77 trips, according to an exhaustive tally by CBS News, totaling all or part of 490 days during his eight-year presidency.
Yeah, I was no fan of his; however, the press didn't call it snarky then!
Bush’s former press secretary, Ari Fleischer, called for a bipartisan “cease-fire’’ on criticism of presidential vacations.
That is who the Globe rung up for comment, huh?
“Presidencies wear people out,’’ Fleischer said. “And they just simply deserve a break, especially a president with a couple little kids.’’
Michelle Obama highlighted the political pitfalls of presidential vacations when, during a trip last week to the gulf, she said Americans should consider staying at one of the gulf’s “beautiful beaches’’ to boost that region’s economy....
This is so sad. I expected better from them, especially after the last guy.
The only change Americans received was the skin color of the president.
Presidents travel with all the infrastructure needed to run the government remotely and deal with emergencies, Fleischer said. “It’s a remarkable operation because a city goes with him — actually it’s a city that gets there ahead of time. By the time he gets there, it’s all in place.’’
I would NOT WANT a CITY of "SECURITY" coming to MY CITY, would you?
That traveling city became semipermanent outside President Bush’s ranch in Crawford, Texas. It included 10 to 15 doublewide trailers packed with communications equipment and offices, said Fleischer. Even on the quietest vacation day, Bush’s routine included an in-person CIA briefing and then a secure video teleconference on national security matters, often with members of the National Security Council or military officials, he said. A vacationing president still has documents to sign and briefs to read, he said.
Then HOW DID HE MISS 9/11, huh?
On top of the usual criticism, for many presidents the traditional August retreat has been a time for major events to strike with uncanny bad timing.
TERROR ALERT, AmeriKa!!
TERROR ALERT!!
FALSE FLAG ATTACK in the works!!
Maybe something like this to be blamed on them?
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Also read: THE BIG BANG MEANS ...
Yes, combined with the Gulf disaster and illegal immigration, this president will be impeached for failing to protect America.
The Obama’s vacation to Martha’s Vineyard last year was a fitful visit delayed by bad weather and interrupted by the death of Senator Edward M. Kennedy of Massachusetts....
Was he ever quickly forgotten, huh?
President Eisenhower suffered a heart attack while vacationing in Colorado. Both Presidents Bush were determined to take the month of August off — George H. W. Bush at the family home in Kennebunkport, Maine, and George W. Bush at his ranch in Texas. But neither president came away unscathed.
In 2005, antiwar demonstrators camped outside the younger Bush’s ranch complained that the president shouldn’t be clearing brush or golfing when US troops were in harm’s way in Iraq.
Now THEY were described as SNARKY -- or worse!
The president returned two days early from vacation after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, but the perception remained that the president was relaxing during a natural disaster.
Ooooooh, the damage done!
The elder Bush found his vacations interrupted by world-shaking news: one year, the Soviet Union was falling apart; in another, the United States was building up to the first Gulf War. “What is it about August?’’ Bush mused from Kennebunkport.
I don't know; you tell me, you evil globalist s*** with his hand in damn near everything.
President Clinton was also fond of Martha’s Vineyard, spending most of his presidential vacations there. He switched for two years to Jackson Hole, Wyo., after his pollster suggested that Americans considered the Vineyard too elitist....
Clinton eventually returned to the island, but those vacations were not always serene. One visit occurred just as the Monica Lewinsky scandal exploded. Another year, Princess Diana died in a car crash in Paris.
Don't those seem rather tame compared to the other things?
President Carter, no fan of fancy vacations, tried to avoid exotic tourist destinations, said author Peter Bourne, a former adviser to Carter and his biographer. Bourne said the former president took no time off during the 444-day Iranian hostage crisis, from 1979 to 1981, because the situation was all-consuming.
Looking back on it now, he is probably the best president we have had since Kennedy.
Also see: The CIA/Likud Sinking of Jimmy Carter
That explains a lot.
How can you tell the difference anymore?
“If he had taken time off he would not have been able to relax,’’ Bourne said in an interview via e-mail....
Yes, Jimmy is a good man, even though Israel has beaten him down again.
That's how they treat their friends.
--more--"Hey, how come the DEAD GUY didn't get a mention?
Also see: Obama's Weekend Get-Away
