Posted on 08/18/2014 12:50:04 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The president is scheduled to make a statement from the briefing room at 4 p.m. Eastern time.
Speculation has been intense over what else might be going on an announcement on immigration policy, perhaps? Thats not supposed to come until the end of summer. Maybe some personnel changes? Certainly that could wait until Obamas two-week vacation is over.
In part, the diversion from vacation may be intended to show that the president is active and engaged amid various world crises, from Iraq to Ukraine to Ferguson. But, it must be noted, the two-day hiatus was on the books before Obama decided to launch airstrikes in Iraq and before rioting in Ferguson erupted over a policemans killing of an unarmed black teenager.
[I] dont recall a president interrupting vacation just for some WH meetings but there have been prior interruptions, writes Mark Knoller, a CBS Radio White House reporter and collector of presidential data, in an e-mail.
Most of them involve President George W. Bush, who spent a lot of time at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, almost treating it at times as a second White House.
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he ran out of golf balls and had to come to the city to resupply?
He ran out of cocaine.
Lost his ball gag in the hotel bar?
I had to laugh this morning, when on Fox News, one of the reporters exclaimed “In a rare occurrence, Obama will be taking time from his vacation, to return to the White House, to discuss the Ferguson and Iraq issues....”
A “rare occurrence” to leave a vacation...yep. For Obama, it is. That’s all his 6 years in office have been...one BIG LONG VACATION, that he occasionally takes leave from, so it “appears” he’s doing something.
‘Unusual’? Well-certainly newsworthy! Don’t ever get in between him and his vacation.
What’s not so rare is that he’s only doing it to televise a speech to annoy people that aren’t Holder’s.
His daughter had to be back for girls night out.
As the writer well knows, there is no comparison between “vacationing” at a home equipped to function in every way like the White House and staying at various luxury villas across the country, golfing and eating ice cream all day.
Looks like he ditched Mooch and the skids for some private Reggie time.
Remember this photograph, from the height of the Clinton Scandals?
Really? Did he do this supposed break for secret reasons, or did he say why he was doing it?
That poor dog.
[multiple choice]
It’s past four.
I don’t remember it.
This break was planned before the recent problems in Iraq and Ferguson. There is another purpose that is hidden from us. Someone could win a Pulitzer (if he were a GOP POTUS) if they could uncover the truth. My gut is something like treatment for a medical issue that he is trying to keep hidden.
Who can blame him?
Bush's ranch was better than a second White House. It was a secure fortress where Bush could do anything that he could do in D.C.
The Secret Service loved it. The press hated it.
Or signing all those illegal executive orders?
His daughter had to be back for girls night out.
This is cover for his daughter’s need to be back in DC for some reason.
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