1,461 Days of Summer

Washington Free Beacon ^ | 22 Aug 2014 | Matthew Continetti

[Rummyfan]

The headline was brutal. “Bam’s Golf War: Prez tees off as Foley’s parents grieve,” read the cover of Thursday’s New York Daily News. Obama’s gaffe was this: He had denounced the beheading of James Foley from a vacation spot in Martha’s Vineyard, then went to the golf course. Seems like he had a great time. Such a great time that he returned to the Farm Neck Golf Club—sorry, membership is full—the next day.

Technically, Obama’s vacation began on August 9. It is scheduled to end on Sunday, August 24. With the exception of a two-day interlude in D.C., it has been two weeks of golf, jazz, biking, beach going, dining out, celebrating, and sniping from critics, not all of them conservative, who are unnerved by the president taking time off at a moment of peril.

Attacking the president for vacation is usually the job of the out party. But these days it is the job of all parties. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, ISIL, Ebola, child migrants on the border, racial strife in Ferguson, an American murdered by the caliphate—critics say the president who danced to every song at Ann Jordan’s birthday party seems remote and aloof from, and even mildly annoyed by, such concerns.

I disagree. Not with the judgment that Obama is detached, dialing it in, contemptuous of events that interfere with his plans. I disagree with the idea that this August has been different, in any meaningful way, from the rest of Obama’s second term. For this president, the distinction between “time off” and “time on” is meaningless. ...

He is like Cosmo Kramer of Seinfeld. “His whole life is a fantasy camp,” George Costanza says of his friend. “People should plunk down $2,000 to live like him for a week.”

[Rummyfan]

This is the life: international travel, motorcades, sycophants and courtiers, tables at the best restaurants, round after round of golf, parties in a cool house, watching the best television shows, meeting all these renowned figures—and having them kiss up to you—ruminating over your legacy, over the causes of polarization, over the geopolitical situation, understanding other peoples’ motivations better than they do. Kramer has nothing on Obama. Politics, terrorists, Iran, Putin, Congress are all distractions. Best to enjoy the experience to the utmost. You are only president once.

In the 1990s, America had a holiday from history. Today, it has a president on holiday. The boundary separating vacation from vocation has disappeared. The party won’t end for years. And the hangover will be severe.

[tnlibertarian]

...and school comes along just to end it.

[Stosh]

I had just cut to paste those last two paragraphs - easily the money shot of the whole article.

Our lives will all be affected, and not in a positive way, as the details of that hangover become clear and play out over the rest of the decade

[GOPJ]

ttacking the president for vacation is usually the job of the out party. But these days it is the job of all parties. Ukraine, Syria, Iraq, ISIL, Ebola, child migrants on the border, racial strife in Ferguson, an American murdered by the caliphate—critics say the president who danced to every song at Ann Jordan’s birthday party seems remote and aloof from, and even mildly annoyed by, such concerns.

Obama's not detached or 'aloof' he doesn't give a damn. Journalists need to stop ruining his party by bringing up downers...

[Mr Ramsbotham]

Does an arsonist try to put out his fires?

[RetSignman]

“People should plunk down $2,000 to live like him for a week.”
+++++
We probably plunk down that much for 0 and, his beard, Mooch every second.

[DaveA37]

Odumbo is “nigg$$ rich” on our money. He realizes that this is the best he will ever live when his time is up as POTUS, that is unless he declares himself “King for life”.....He does have a pen and a phone.

Why be bothered with the trivial things like actually being a president instead of being a president in name only? Like Alfred E. Neuman (whom odumbo looks very much like) said, "What, Me Worry?"

[arthurus]

Actually, he is acting rather like the Sultan in Istanbul of the old Ottoman Empire or Louis 14.