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America's Vicarious Christmas Vacation
American Thinker ^ | Sunday, December 23, 2012 | Jeannie DeAngelis

Posted on 12/23/2012 7:14:41 PM PST by upchuck

President Barack Obama needs a break. It's tiring and takes a tremendous amount of effort to dismantle 250 years of what made America the great nation we once were. So, in anticipation of leaving the drudgery of governing behind, Obama abandoned the wrecking ball he's been swinging for the last four years, left the 54 holiday trees that lost their lives in the White House, and jetted off with the wife, the kids and the dog for their nine-hour flight to Oahu.

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During the planned 17-day breather the President will be doing the usual "playing golf, eating at local restaurants with family members and escorting his daughters to island water parks and other activities."

In other words, while America, on both a micro and macro level, anticipates a future of making do on a painful austerity budget, Barack Obama is resting up in preparation for his splashy, high-priced inauguration party and to resume the hard work he started of fundamentally trashing...sorry, "fundamentally transforming the United States of America."

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


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Despicable.
1 posted on 12/23/2012 7:14:48 PM PST by upchuck
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To: upchuck

Makes a real American want to puke.


2 posted on 12/23/2012 7:17:58 PM PST by EagleUSA
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To: upchuck
Despicable

It most certainly is.

Nonetheless, the President did not seem to be the least bit worried about how it might look luxuriating for two weeks while the nation teeters on the verge of a fiscal nightmare come January 2nd.

Nope, because he's "The Won" and cares not about the little people.

3 posted on 12/23/2012 7:31:27 PM PST by jazusamo ("Intellect is not wisdom" -- Thomas Sowell)
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To: upchuck

Now that he is out of the continental US, is there any way we can deny him re-entry?


4 posted on 12/23/2012 7:33:12 PM PST by Slyfox (The key to Marxism is medicine - V. Lenin)
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To: upchuck

Lets not complain because Obama hit the lottery two times when he got elected twice.

When you hit the Lotto you spend like a drunken sailor.

Just like when Rotney King hit his Lotto.

There is little difference.


5 posted on 12/23/2012 8:01:15 PM PST by Venturer
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To: upchuck
He gets a luxury vacation on our dime while I can only afford a Staycation, that's if I can get the days off.
Besides, TSA has made it too unpleasant to travel.

It will be interesting to see how our own modern versions of Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette will fare.

6 posted on 12/23/2012 8:10:54 PM PST by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: upchuck

“fundamentally trashforming the United States of America.”


7 posted on 12/23/2012 8:40:24 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: upchuck
Professional vacationing is a full time job. They need to go on vacation just to get rested up enough to plan their next vacation.


8 posted on 12/23/2012 9:10:30 PM PST by rawcatslyentist ("Behold, I am against you, O arrogant one," Jeremiah 50:31)
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To: upchuck

The thoughts that articles like this inspire in me I cannot say out loud. But I can still think them (and one in particular I can wish for).


9 posted on 12/23/2012 10:57:11 PM PST by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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