I disagree with the title; Obama’s time in power has not increased in weakness. The weakness and frivolous nature of his efforts has been apparent from the beginning. He’s like the lazy and inept bully who is happy to hit someone whose arms are being held by other bullies but who cowers when faced with someone able to defend himself. Obama pummeled Americans during his first two years, when he controlled everything, especially when passing ObamaCare, but he has otherwise been uniformly weak while chasing frivolous whims.
Obama goes on vacation because the powers that be in Washington (Reid, Pelosi, Jarrett, etc.) want him out of the way while they formulate policy.
Obama is about to outlive his usefulness. Obama's approval rating is now below 40%. If it goes below 35%, look for soemthing bad to happen to him. I can see Valerie Jarrett giving some mentally deranged man a gun and telling him that Obama's the one putting voices in his head.
As we've seen with Marxists and Fascists, martyrs are much more useful and easier to handle.
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No one should begrudge the President a little rest and frivolity. There is a time and a place for it. The issue for a President is picking the time and place for such things. George W. Bush refused to golf once the wars started, deciding that the appearance of the President golfing sent the wrong message. Bush was forever attacked for spending a month at his ranch every summer, despite the fact that he had the same access to the government and the world that he had in the White House. Bill Clinton took less vacation time than Bush, spending most of it in Martha’s Vineyard.
Obama has spent a significant part of his Presidency engaged in frivolous activities. In five years he’s golfed over 100 times. Each March he fills out a NCAA Tournament bracket in front of the ESPN cameras. Some years, nothing much is going on in March and thus it isn’t that big a deal. Doesn’t the smartest man ever to live in the White House not see how bad the optics are this year when he filled out his bracket? Putin is taking Crimea, Ukraine is practically at war with Russia and we’re in the middle of it trying to pressure the Russians. Meanwhile the President is picking college basketball games for television. Obama is choosing a frivolous public image.
Meanwhile the President’s wife and daughters are in China on the taxpayer’s dime. It’s being billed as a “feel good tourist event.” Why exactly are taxpayers paying for Obama’s family to go on a tourist vacation in China? This is where the arrogance of the Obama’s becomes plain as day. How can we ever expect the President to support balancing the budget when he’s sending his wife and kids away on a frivolous tax funded trip to China? This isn’t diplomatic work, the First Lady isn’t a diplomat. Unfortunately this isn’t the first time the Obama’s have sent the First Lady away on the taxpayer’s dime. During the first term she went on vacation in Spain, her daughter went to Mexico. Earlier this year she stayed behind in Hawaii, costing taxpayers a second flight back to Washington plus additional Hawaiian security.
President’s and their wives have to be very careful with their vacations. Taxpayers don’t begrudge the President a vacation, we do have a problem when our money is being frivolously spent. When the First Lady is leaving the country for a vacation, that might as well be the definition of frivolously spent tax dollars. So long as her husband is President, Mrs. Obama has no business leaving the country without Barack. It not only appears wasteful of tax dollars, it is. Yet this President and First Lady don’t seem to care. They act entitled. Worse, they set a precedent for future First Lady’s to globe trot with tax money without their husband. What do you want to bet the first Republican First Lady to do so get skewered in the press?
The Obama Presidency is becoming increasingly frivolous. As Obamacare crumbles, as Russia rumbles and as the middle east continues to simmer, the President looks increasingly small and weak. Filling out tournament brackets, going to Opening Day baseball games (which he is sure to do in ten days) and sending the wife off to look at the Great Wall of China makes Obama look small. It makes the American Presidency look small, weak and frivolous. It’s one thing to relax and publicly enjoy frivolity when times are good. When everything is crumbling, it makes a President look weak and frivolous. That’s not good for the country at all. Unfortunately we have a very weak and frivolous President right now.
Obama runs the country like it’s his backyard barbecue - and he doesn’t even do that very well!
The rest of the world has figured this out also and is acting accordingly.
He has beefed up the NSA, the IRS and Homeland Security, militarized police across America, consolidated the once mainstream media into his own fawning one stream media, signed numerous Executive Orders giving his GuvCo supreme power, is actively federalizing healthcare and medicine and other similar actions to strengthen his hand against we, the people.
Weak and frivolous? Not even close.
The bottom line here is that liberals have different criteria for judging presidential down time, depending on whether they approve of the president.
In the case of Bush, he was roundly criticized for time at the ranch.
Some extreme liberals even blame Bush being on vacation for inviting September 11th. Because he spent the month of August 2001 at his ranch, the liberals decided that he was not on the job, and was not able to connect dots and all of that, in order to prevent the planning of Sept. 11th.
But in the case of Obama, we are told that the president is always in contact with his people, that he travels with a large White House staff, etc. and that he’s always on the job, even when out of the White House. The same criteria are not used to judge a Republican president taking a vacation.
Hey, Leo..
How is it that you only post your own material?
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Are you just marketing your material here?