Posted on 08/18/2014 12:50:04 PM PDT by Citizen Zed
The president is scheduled to make a statement from the briefing room at 4 p.m. Eastern time.
Speculation has been intense over what else might be going on an announcement on immigration policy, perhaps? Thats not supposed to come until the end of summer. Maybe some personnel changes? Certainly that could wait until Obamas two-week vacation is over.
In part, the diversion from vacation may be intended to show that the president is active and engaged amid various world crises, from Iraq to Ukraine to Ferguson. But, it must be noted, the two-day hiatus was on the books before Obama decided to launch airstrikes in Iraq and before rioting in Ferguson erupted over a policemans killing of an unarmed black teenager.
[I] dont recall a president interrupting vacation just for some WH meetings but there have been prior interruptions, writes Mark Knoller, a CBS Radio White House reporter and collector of presidential data, in an e-mail.
Most of them involve President George W. Bush, who spent a lot of time at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, almost treating it at times as a second White House.
(Excerpt) Read more at m.csmonitor.com ...
Is there treatment for psychopathy?
Schools starting, I guarantee you it has something to do with that so Obama spends 500,000 to bring her to doc then back.
Can he still squeeze in a round of golf before sundown?
LOL!
Punished with a Baby?
Caught you believing he can be on time.
Is that who he was dancing with?
Among the many Firsts of this Presidency it would be interesting for him to be the First President with HIV.
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