Posted on 08/19/2011 8:47:19 AM PDT by Responsibility2nd
As the U.S. economy takes hit after hit, President Obama is taking heat for his 10-day fun-in-the-sun vacation at Martha's Vineyard that began Thursday.
From the left: Colbert I. King, op-ed writer for The Washington Post, observed: "Mr. President, Martha's Vineyard is the last place in the world you should visit. ... You simply don't have time to take time off from America."
From the right: Mike Murphy, a Republican strategist, told the Daily Beast that Obama is "acting like the rich guys he wants to raise taxes on."
From The Donald: Obama "takes more vacations than any human being I've ever seen," Donald Trump told Greta Van Susteren on Fox News. "I think it sends a very, very bad message. We have to work in this country to bring it back."
Scott Stanzel, a former deputy assistant and deputy White House press secretary for President George W. Bush, says, "At a time when most Americans can barely afford a vacation that doesn't involve pitching a tent in their backyard, President Obama is not doing himself any public relations favors by choosing to vacation in one of the country's most exclusive and expensive destinations."
Stanzel, who now runs a public relations firm in Seattle, sums it up this way: "Images matter."
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The Hypocrite in Chief is just rubbing it in our face.
I thought he was on a tour of the Mid West in a vehicle that looks like a hearse......
Nice that Obama would be so obvious.
It didn’t help that his wife had to take a SEPARATE AIR FORCE PLANE to get there. Not like she had open up the place, air it out, get dinner started.
Destroying the US economy and the middle class is hard work. The guy needs to recharge his batteries. 15 more months to wreak havoc on the country. He nneds his rest.
Oh well, even Fox News is covering for Hussein. Hussein’s handlers are releasing pics of him “getting National security briefings” while on vacation at Martha’s Vineyard.
“Let them eat cake” says Hussein Obama! Does this guy ever work? I guess goofing off all the time, playing golf, and shooting hoops with his rapper homies is Barry’s way of stickin’ it to whitey!
November 2012 cant come soon enough. This lazy, arrogant Muslim traitor has to go back to Kenya!
Honestly, I think that is part of it.. plus the fact that he knows his time is short..
Never worked in his life, always someone else supporting his sorry @ss :p
Was it a “SEPARATE AIR FORCE PLANE”? I heard it was a Gulf Stream.
You know. One of those private corporate jets that Obama wants to take away from rich folks.
BTW - I am assuming that since the taxpayers have bought those massive black buses for Obama’s Not-a-campaign campaign trip to the Midwest, when he does decide to take a “real campaign” trip on the road, he will be able to use the already paid for buses with the DNC-Obama for President campaign only having to pay for gas (and /or a buck a day rent)??? Is that right? We upfronted the huge expenses under a official business ruse so the campaign trips will cost almost nothing??
Meanwhile REPUBs probably must buy or rent their buses.
Death takes a holiday?
pResident Downgrayedd feeeeeeeels that he has inoculated himself against this criticism by making the insipid boast that he makes too much and doesn't need the extra. It isn't playing Øbozo.
The paranoidmobile must be parked - it's way to dark a vision to be used on the ever light and bright people of the island...
A bus that looks like machine guns mounts fit - has no place among the sparkling beaches and sun drenched shops of the vineyard.
Nope that's for the American midwest - land of Tea Party terrorists...
Obama's not afraid of white liberal elites of Martha's vineyard...
It takes what, about 15 seconds to stage a photo op of Zero pretending to be interested in those boring daily briefs that he has absolutely no intention of doing anything about.
Obama - living large while the country bleeds.
And more people are tuned into his arrogance and "Let them eat cake" attitude than ever before.
Perhaps this will po Maxine Water's target market enough that they react by sitting out the 2012 election.
Bush at his own modest ranch clearing brush, to contrast with Obumble playing on the beach at a $10,000 per day resort.
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