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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.
I wonder why Leo didn’t post the whole thing?
BUT not to himself. He is totally convinced that he is the supergenius - the magic black man that the fawning media portray him as. One problem with blacks is that generally speaking they are given the most lavish praise for the most trivial of accomplishments. Zero has been living in that world of the obsequious media gushing lavish praise on his every flatulent utterance for so long that he truly believes that he is perfection.
In his mind his speeches should sway everyone. His frequent obvious lies should be believed. His failed communistic ideology will work because its HIM that's doing it. The man is an utter dunce with only the ability to cozen fools into thinking he has some substance. He doesn't. His just a con-man.
Thnx ...
Perhaps this isn't official diplomatic work, thus justifying a Press blackout but my gut tells me Michelle is delivering a personal message to the Chinese that is offering concessions which are detrimental to our security or that of Taiwan!!!