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Obama's break from vacation: How unusual is that?
Christian Science Monitor ^ | 8-18-2014 | Linda Feldmann

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? That’s not supposed to come until the end of summer. Maybe some personnel changes? Certainly that could wait until Obama’s 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 policeman’s killing of an unarmed black teenager.

“[I] don’t 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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TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: coverup; malia; marthasvineyard; obamapresser; obamavacation
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Bush did it.
1 posted on 08/18/2014 12:50:04 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
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he ran out of golf balls and had to come to the city to resupply?


2 posted on 08/18/2014 12:52:12 PM PDT by blueplum
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He ran out of cocaine.


3 posted on 08/18/2014 12:53:03 PM PDT by combat_boots (The Lion of Judah cometh. Hallelujah. Gloria Patri, Filio et Spiritui Sancto!)
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To: combat_boots

Lost his ball gag in the hotel bar?


4 posted on 08/18/2014 12:55:06 PM PDT by Bucky14 (And I would have gotten away with it too, if not for you meddling kids!)
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To: Citizen Zed

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.


5 posted on 08/18/2014 12:57:39 PM PDT by Lucky9teen (Justice will not be served until those who r unaffected r as outraged as those who r. B Franklin)
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To: Citizen Zed

‘Unusual’? Well-certainly newsworthy! Don’t ever get in between him and his vacation.


6 posted on 08/18/2014 1:00:09 PM PDT by SMARTY ("When you blame others, you give up your power to change." Robert Anthony)
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To: Lucky9teen

What’s not so rare is that he’s only doing it to televise a speech to annoy people that aren’t Holder’s.


7 posted on 08/18/2014 1:01:06 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Citizen Zed

His daughter had to be back for girls night out.


8 posted on 08/18/2014 1:01:17 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Citizen Zed

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.


9 posted on 08/18/2014 1:01:44 PM PDT by skeeter
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Break,? From Vakay?

Looks like he ditched Mooch and the skids for some private Reggie time.

10 posted on 08/18/2014 1:05:04 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall ; / ?)
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To: DainBramage

Remember this photograph, from the height of the Clinton Scandals?

11 posted on 08/18/2014 1:11:21 PM PDT by Haiku Guy (Health Care Haiku: If You Have a Right / To the Labor I Provide / I Must Be Your Slave)
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To: Citizen Zed

Really? Did he do this supposed break for secret reasons, or did he say why he was doing it?


12 posted on 08/18/2014 1:16:34 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Haiku Guy

That poor dog.

[multiple choice]


13 posted on 08/18/2014 1:18:38 PM PDT by Salamander (People will stare. Might as well make it worth their while.)
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To: Citizen Zed

It’s past four.


14 posted on 08/18/2014 1:21:12 PM PDT by cuban leaf (The US will not survive the obama presidency. The world may not either.)
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To: Haiku Guy

I don’t remember it.


15 posted on 08/18/2014 1:21:39 PM PDT by DainBramage
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To: Calvin Locke

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.


16 posted on 08/18/2014 1:22:46 PM PDT by PghBaldy (12/14 - 930am -rampage begins... 12/15 - 1030am - Obama's advance team scouts photo-op locations.)
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To: Citizen Zed
He wanted to get away from Moochelle.

Who can blame him?

17 posted on 08/18/2014 1:30:03 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: Citizen Zed
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.

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.

18 posted on 08/18/2014 1:33:41 PM PDT by Bubba_Leroy (The Obamanation Continues)
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To: PghBaldy

Or signing all those illegal executive orders?


19 posted on 08/18/2014 1:35:57 PM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: DainBramage

His daughter had to be back for girls night out.


This was my first thought also.

This is cover for his daughter’s need to be back in DC for some reason.


20 posted on 08/18/2014 1:50:12 PM PDT by maine yankee (I got my Governor at 'Marden's')
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