President is on vacation in the middle of a war

[XShipRider]

August 24, 2009
What Obama's reading on the Vineyard
Posted: August 24th, 2009 12:30 PM ET
Obama plans to read five books on vacation, the White House said.

(CNN) — The White House has said President Obama plans to play golf and spend time with his family during his week away from Washington.

But it appears the president also wants to get some reading in: a lot of it.
... Read the rest here (http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2009/08/24/what-obamas-reading-on-the-vineyard/)

Funny, how they're fawning over President Obama golfing at The Vineyard but President Bush was chastised for it. Did someone not tell him there's a war on?

I was the first to say "give him a chance," but can't defend taking vacations while the country's unemployment rate is at near record levels, the war rages on and his favorite topic -- health care -- appears to be on the rocks. Par for the course I guess.

[Noons86]

Well, at least he'll be reading "John Adams" by David McCollough

[happyslapper]

The war's been going since 2001 ffs!

[Derbedeu]

His predecessor spent 487 days at Camp David and 490 days at his ranch during his presidency. When Obama gets anywhere near those numbers, call me.

[Alpheus]

Dude, I really don't like Obama, but making a thread each time he farts is getting annoying.

[ronnieraygun]

Dude, I really don't like Obama, but making a thread each time he farts is getting annoying.

yes yes yes yes

This bears repeating.

[Nano]

Can't blame the guy for taking a vacation frankly. I've been without a vacation longer than he's been on the job and need to plan how to use my vacation time before the year runs out and I'm **** out of luck(no money for fun). Well at least he can afford a real vacation I'll probably just take a staycation.

[California Joe]

"One week?"

Christ on a motherf*cking pushbike, to paraphrase Chops, all f*cking Presidents take vacations, apparently a lot of them do it in August, W took a lot more than most. That's just a gawddamned fact. He was kinda chastised because he said, "Hey, invade that Iraq place, country, the one nest to the other one that sounds kinda like it...let me know how it goes I'll be on the ranch."

It's never a good time when you're President. But the fact is, no matter what your political leanings it's a stressful job and I doubt they even have much fun whilst they're trying to relax..

What is your point, that you're all butthurt that the media didn't fully appreciate W's vacation itinerary?

[SBL]

This old chestnut again.:roll:

[CG51]

Now watch this drive.

[Universal_Soldier]

His predecessor spent 487 days at Camp David and 490 days at his ranch during his presidency. When Obama gets anywhere near those numbers, call me.
His predecessor spent 487 days at Camp David and 490 days at his ranch during his presidency. When Obama gets anywhere near those numbers, call me

Repeated for truth and emphasis. This is a very dishonest thread tittle.

[CMNot]

Now watch this drive.

Haha, good call. That was awesome though, I like to dust that one off during pub golf.

[XShipRider]

"Butthurt?" No, I've pretty much accepted the fact the fawning won't stop for 7 more years.

This was mere tit for tat cynicism for the crowd that went ape-shyte over GWB taking his first vacation. Whether the war was 1 day or 1000 days should not matter. And I was also there to say that no Prez is ever truly out of contact with modern comms being what they are, obviously true for the current administration as well.

Is this the "Political Discussions and RANTS" section or is it being revamped and renamed the "PC" section? I guess one can rant as long as it causes nothing but goosebumps and giddiness.

[Red_Fern]

Yeah, everyone's entitled to a vacation, but when there's people who can't even afford to put food on the table and this guy's going and spending more in a week than some people make in a year on a vacation (in the middle of a recession) it does kind of raise some eyebrows.

[ARGAR FORKBEARD]

Haha, good call. That was awesome though, I like to dust that one off during pub golf.


PUB GOLF!!!!!!!
I aint played that in years!!!
PUB GOLF FTW!!!!

[Soldat_Américain]

So the guy takes a week off. It seemed like W was on vacation for more than half his presidency...but they still get briefs, and they still have cellphones.

[Red_Fern]

...won't stop for 7 more years.

Nah, don't be so pessimistic.

I think he'll honestly be a 1-term president. Look at how his numbers have sank just since January. If he keeps that act up, Conservatives will regain control after the 2010 midterms, and he'll be a lame-duck for his last two years. Therefore making a Huckabee-Palin victory in 2012 even sweeter.

</Red_Fern's $.02>

[tea drinker]

Funny, how they're fawning over President Obama golfing at The Vineyard but President Bush was chastised for it. Did someone not tell him there's a war on?

I was the first to say "give him a chance," but can't defend taking vacations while the country's unemployment rate is at near record levels, the war rages on and his favorite topic -- health care -- appears to be on the rocks. Par for the course I guess.
We should cancel all vacations for everyone in CONUS until these wars are "Mission Accomplished"

bender... thanks for this:

Now watch this drive.
And don't mind what the others said about your avatar, I'd lash her out of it.

[CMNot]

PUB GOLF!!!!!!!
I aint played that in years!!!
PUB GOLF FTW!!!!

You will be pleased to know it is enjoying a strong resurgence. Much vomiting seems to be my general experience of this.


Is this the "Political Discussions and RANTS" section or is it being revamped and renamed the "PC" section? I guess one can rant as long as it causes nothing but goosebumps and giddiness.

PC section? No. If you are going to come out with bone posts, you can at least expect someone to pick you up on it. Hot ****, the guy had a holiday. Christ, our economy is tanking, we're stuck in a failing war and ALL our democractic representatives have gone on their annual three month recess.

Country always seems to improve whilst they are gone, which is strange.

[commanding]

"Butthurt?" No, I've pretty much accepted the fact the fawning won't stop for 7 more years.

This was mere tit for tat cynicism for the crowd that went ape-shyte over GWB taking his first vacation. Whether the war was 1 day or 1000 days should not matter. And I was also there to say that no Prez is ever truly out of contact with modern comms being what they are, obviously true for the current administration as well.

Is this the "Political Discussions and RANTS" section or is it being revamped and renamed the "PC" section? I guess one can rant as long as it causes nothing but goosebumps and giddiness.

bravo!.......bravo.

[LineDoggie]

His predecessor spent 487 days at Camp David and 490 days at his ranch during his presidency. When Obama gets anywhere near those numbers, call me

Repeated for truth and emphasis. This is a very dishonest thread tittle.Its not dishonest, the President is on vacation, we are in a War. When Bush did it he was pilloried. It was the De Riguer soundbite of the left, now Obama isnt the droid were looking for, right?

I dont see the need for it to be newsworthy, but Precedent was set

Hows Obama doing with that Osama Hunt?

[LineDoggie]

Yeah, everyone's entitled to a vacation, but when there's people who can't even afford to put food on the table and this guy's going and spending more in a week than some people make in a year on a vacation (in the middle of a recession) it does kind of raise some eyebrows. Unfortunately, there has always been, and Always will be People in that state here no matter the Administration.

[commanding]

Oh sh1t!
http://features.csmonitor.com/politics/2009/08/24/peace-activist-cindy-sheehan-targets-obama%E2%80%99s-vacation/

Now I am siding with cindy sheehan.????....ain't no way bro. don't taze me!

maybe the big O is due some time?

I sure ain't siding with that @@#@ woman

[Red_Fern]

Hows Obama doing with that Osama Hunt?

Poorly. According to the White House the WoT is over (http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/aug/06/white-house-war-terrorism-over/?feat=home_headlines), anyway.


Unfortunately, there has always been, and Always will be People in that state here no matter the Administration.

I know there'll always be those people, but many of those statistics have become so through the layoffs of the recession. Those were the ones I was referring to. But I understand what you mean.

[Ordie]

I look forward to the day when they mandate 4 weeks off for all Americans. That way they can stimulate the travel industry.

[Soldat_Américain]

I look forward to the day when they mandate 4 weeks off for all Americans. That way they can stimulate the travel industry.
6 weeks Ordie, six weeks.

[tea drinker]

I look forward to the day when they mandate 4 weeks off for all Americans. That way they can stimulate the travel industry.
And the jobs it creates - you need 1/12th more staff to cover all the holiers

[Peanut]

Nah, don't be so pessimistic.

I think he'll honestly be a 1-term president. Look at how his numbers have sank just since January. If he keeps that act up, Conservatives will regain control after the 2010 midterms, and he'll be a lame-duck for his last two years. Therefore making a Huckabee-Palin victory in 2012 even sweeter.

</Red_Fern's $.02>


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[Red_Fern]

rofl
What's so funny?
Said it was my $.02... take it for what you want.

[backpack]

His predecessor spent 487 days at Camp David and 490 days at his ranch during his presidency. When Obama gets anywhere near those numbers, call me

Repeated for truth and emphasis. This is a very dishonest thread tittle.


Oh come on!! Bush worked 24/7.

24 days a month...7 months a year.

[pascalywood]

WTF the war has been going since 2001 and will go on for another decade at least. Does this mean that the next president cant take vacations or have a good time because there is a war going? FFS those "BHO did this and that" threads are ****ing annoying. Get a ****ing life.

[California Joe]

"Butthurt?" No, I've pretty much accepted the fact the fawning won't stop for 7 more years.

This was mere tit for tat cynicism for the crowd that went ape-shyte over GWB taking his first vacation. Whether the war was 1 day or 1000 days should not matter. And I was also there to say that no Prez is ever truly out of contact with modern comms being what they are, obviously true for the current administration as well.

Is this the "Political Discussions and RANTS" section or is it being revamped and renamed the "PC" section? I guess one can rant as long as it causes nothing but goosebumps and giddiness.

Newsflash, it happens every Presidency, especially if you "start" the war.

Frankly you seem bitter and jaded that the media likes the black guy more than the pretend cowboy. He's new and people want to believe he's magic and not another douchebag politician, that they elected, cause they're in denial and think some politicians are magic...I don't think Obama should be taking a vacation either. But what're you gonna do. If the media you're watching seems too fawning, watch the opposite media from the last administration. I'm sure they're all foaming at the mouth and hoping for a shark attack.

The media isn't real life, nor honest opinions. It's slanted.

[LineDoggie]

I thought the War in Afghanistan was Started when the Taliban let AQ execute 9/11/01 on us .

Silly me

[seraosha]

Frankly you seem bitter and jaded that the media likes the black guy...people want to believe he's magic (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magical_negro) and not another douchebag politician, that they elected, cause they're in denial and think some politicians are magic...I don't think Obama should be taking a vacation either...

I know you didn't mean "magic" in the context I quoted you, CJ...but I found your turn of phrase funny, in a schadenfreude kind of way.

And the President needs to quit wee-weeing up in the NE and go to Dinsney World, like real people. I think he's earned a vacation, if nothing else so far.

[California Joe]

I thought the War in Afghanistan was Started when the Taliban let AQ execute 9/11/01 on us .

Silly me

That ain't the war I was talking about and you know it. This is simply people that didn't care if W was in Crawford for most of his Presidency, bitching that Obama is getting a pass. It's bullsh*t. Cause they watch media they don't agrre with just so they can come on here and go "Oh yeah!!!"


I know you didn't mean "magic" in the context I quoted you, CJ...but I found your turn of phrase funny, in a schadenfreude kind of way.

And the President needs to quit wee-weeing up in the NE and go to Dinsney World, like real people. I think he's earned a vacation, if nothing else so far.

Oh f*ck me, I'm a big fat racist. Don't get me started on European Black Pete around Christmas...

"Wee weeing" may have been the gayest thing ever to come out of a President's mouth. I'm not privy to the private conversations of Millard Fillmore or anything.

[Violet Fashion by Mindy]

Newsflash, it happens every Presidency, especially if you "start" the war.

Frankly you seem bitter and jaded that the media likes the black guy more than the pretend cowboy. He's new and people want to believe he's magic and not another douchebag politician, that they elected, cause they're in denial and think some politicians are magic...I don't think Obama should be taking a vacation either. But what're you gonna do. If the media you're watching seems too fawning, watch the opposite media from the last administration. I'm sure they're all foaming at the mouth and hoping for a shark attack.

The media isn't real life, nor honest opinions. It's slanted.

All workers deserve holidays or am I reading something else here. Are you racist? Are you from a slave owning family?

I'm shocked. p-)

[California Joe]

Don't make me come down there.

[commanding]

well....if Obama reads those five books, 2300 pages in a week, I hope he gets bad eyesight and has to wear big thick honking glasses. there, I said it! p-)

[shocker1]

I for one am glad he is hangin with important caring people up there at Martha's. He is on the TV less lying staining his grill. Maybe Pookie and Ray Ray can let the dogs out n shizt.

Frankly though Congress takes a Summer Break, come back and the Prez is out of pocket paying with my money firms his buddies own to "sell" the people on his goals. Kinda like delegating and stimulating at the same time. Our so called leaders need an attitude adjustment, anyone else would have been fired from their job for such lolly gagging. Just wonderin when this is gonna trickle down though, the trickle up ain't tricklin.

[BearInBunnySuit]

Nah, don't be so pessimistic.

I think he'll honestly be a 1-term president. Look at how his numbers have sank just since January. If he keeps that act up, Conservatives will regain control after the 2010 midterms, and he'll be a lame-duck for his last two years. Therefore making a Huckabee-Palin victory in 2012 even sweeter.

</Red_Fern's $.02>

Oh dear lord, Obama isn't exactly my favorite president but if it's a choice between a second-term Obama or Huckabee-Palin, I'm swinging left on the political pendulum.

[California Joe]

If we could only find a MILF that hunts moose to run this place. I'd so bang, I mean vote for her.

[pascalywood]

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/1431/palincj.gif
If we could only find a MILF that hunts moose to run this place. I'd so bang, I mean vote for her.

[2495]

http://img513.imageshack.us/img513/5789/sarahpalinsexyboots.jpg


Uh huh. Bet that secured a fair few votes across the US.

[BlackFlag]

Damn.

I have a fetish for chicks in big black boots.

[Wally1967]

I heard there's huge issue about health care in the USA,
what that on about?

[Wally1967]

Damn.

I have a fetish for chicks in big black boots.

Did you say Black? omg! lol

[tyovan]

Hooker boots FTW! :D

[Migs]

so wats up?

[BlackFlag]

Did you say Black? omg! lol

My bad. I meant to say Big Miserable Boots. p-)

[Kaplanr]

Nah, don't be so pessimistic.

I think he'll honestly be a 1-term president. Look at how his numbers have sank just since January. If he keeps that act up, Conservatives will regain control after the 2010 midterms, and he'll be a lame-duck for his last two years. Therefore making a Huckabee-Palin victory in 2012 even sweeter.

</Red_Fern's $.02>

Arkansas and Alaska; and she implies 8.5 million New Yorkers aren't in the real America?

[Johnnyringo]

Arkansas and Alaska; and she implies 8.5 million New Yorkers aren't in the real America?

lol... well at least not the "pro America" parts of the country...

she should have been run out of the race after she said that... oh well.. thank god for rednecks I guess

[budgie]

As much as Bush was criticised for taking his long holidays I'm sure that even he didn't really get away from work once the wars were on. I kinda picture the President's time at Camp David, Martha's Vinyard or even a Texan ranch more of a study session, where they can get a lot of behind the scenes work done without press conferences and townhall meetings. Or who knows, he could be just clearing brush.

Hey, maybe those who don't like it can take their flags, guns and birth certificates down there and picket the place....

[BlackJack22]

Funny, how they're fawning over President Obama golfing at The Vineyard but President Bush was chastised for it. Did someone not tell him there's a war on?

I was the first to say "give him a chance," but can't defend taking vacations while the country's unemployment rate is at near record levels, the war rages on and his favorite topic -- health care -- appears to be on the rocks. Par for the course I guess.
Well hell if were gonna do this,....... theres soldiers on leave when there is a war to fight.

[commanding]

If we could only find a MILF that hunts moose to run this place. I'd so bang, I mean vote for her.

um, um, um! I fully agree that young nubile Ms. Palin is so much easier on the eyes, than an politcian I have seen in ages....close your eyes and envision Palin, compared to Bob Dole, Obamalama, McCain, Billy "Hornytoad" Clinton, or "Jemmie" Carter......yikes.
I don't think she has a snowballs chance in hades of being presidential timber, because of the medias continued beating up on her, and the wide spread perception that she is a dingy good lookin chick. Too bad, we still judge people by their looks...called Lookism, which I hate. If we were to apply the same principal to Obama, and judge him by his "looks" (being half African American) we would be called racist. But it gets a pass on Palin. Amazingly enough almost all the women in America were/are against Palin, I think because of her attractive looks. Odd. Jealousy?
Anyway, she was a sure a lot easier on the eyes, than the other candidates in the election. Plus she had a lot of that "down home" country charm, as previously seen in George W. Bush, and Sam Ervin.

http://i60.photobucket.com/albums/h8/clovisfirst/ThompsonWatergate.jpg

PS....why do I hate "lookism" you ask? because i am as ugly as a mud fence.

[CPLHUNTER]

I absolutely hate Obama and end up throwing various things at the TV whenever i see his arrogant face, however he deserves his PTO as much as the next guy.

Hopefully he takes more vacation so he causes less damage while away. Let's just see how Biden handles the show for a while.

[BearInBunnySuit]

I don't think she has a snowballs chance in hades of being presidential timber, because of the medias continued beating up on her, and the wide spread perception that she is a dingy good lookin chick. Too bad, we still judge people by their looks...called Lookism, which I hate. If we were to apply the same principal to Obama, and judge him by his "looks" (being half African American) we would be called racist. But it gets a pass on Palin. Amazingly enough almost all the women in America were/are against Palin, I think because of her attractive looks. Odd. Jealousy?
Anyway, she was a sure a lot easier on the eyes, than the other candidates in the election. Plus she had a lot of that "down home" country charm, as previously seen in George W. Bush, and Sam Ervin.

PS....why do I hate "lookism" you ask? because i am as ugly as a mud fence.

Hehe, I don't think so. I agree that the media has been exceptionally hard on her but at the same time, Palin and the Republican party need to understand that leading the U.S. is not the same thing as running a PTA. I give her credit for being plucked from obscurity and handling herself relatively well under the public microscope but at the same time, she has not impressed me as someone who understands the complexities of the country she wants to lead.
Besides, it seems fairly accurate to say that it's usually the men who comment on her looks, not the women.

[khalsa1699]

if soldiers on actual field post can get a weekend pass to visit few bars and hump few girls, whats wrong with C in C taking a break?

come on guys give the fella a break!

[dbamil]

Yeah, everyone's entitled to a vacation, but when there's people who can't even afford to put food on the table and this guy's going and spending more in a week than some people make in a year on a vacation (in the middle of a recession) it does kind of raise some eyebrows.

But people like that exist even in boom times...

[dbamil]

So the guy takes a week off. It seemed like W was on vacation for more than half his presidency...but they still get briefs, and they still have cellphones.

If not for 9/11, I think he'd have taken more vacations.