List Of How Our Economy Went To Hell While Obama On Vacation #6 Almost As Long As It Is Scary

Start Thinking Right ^ | August 27, 2010 | Michael Eden

[Michael Eden]

If there was ever a "Let them eat cake" administration, this one's it.

I like the hilariously cynical "Newsflash" part of this ABC News title. It brings out the massively disconnected look of contempt for the "forgotten man" in Obama's eyes.

"Wave at all the little nobodies, daughters, wave at all the little nobodies. Emperor worship is all they have left to live for."

Breaking News: President Obama Says “I’m Having a Great Time” On Vacation August 25, 2010 12:42 PM

Last night President Obama and First Lady Obama dined at State Road Restaurant in West Tisbury on Martha’s Vineyard.

Their dinner companions were family friends Dr. Eric and Cheryl Whitaker, senior adviser Valerie Jarrett, and lawyer and business executive Vernon Jordan and wife Ann Dibble Jordan.

As they departed the restaurant at 9:55 pm ET, reporters asked the president if he was enjoying his vacation even with the rain.

"I'm having a great time,” the president said. “Doing a lot of reading"

[Snip]

Kenworth said she’d been asked not to talk about what the Obamas ordered, but “the whole table got lobster tempura with island corn succotash and lemon vinaigrette” in addition to their individual entrees.

You wouldn't have asked for about 310 million doggy bags for those lobster tempura leftovers, would you, Barry?

Meanwhile, back in the real world, the American people are watching their economy go directly to hell. As in, "Go to hell. Go directly to hell. Do not pass 'Recovery Summer,' do not collect $200."

Obama's having a grand old time because he doesn't give a flying fart about the following facts that have come out while he was golfing:

• Jobless claims rise to highest level in 9 months.
• Pre-owned home sales drop 27.2% to lowest level in 15 years.
• New home sales fall 12.4% to weakest level since 1963.
• 1 in 10 homeowners with a mortgage are at risk of foreclosure.
• US foreclosures up 4%; top 300,000 for 17th straight month (Obama's been president for 19 months).
• 14.42% of all mortgages either delinquent or in foreclosure.
• Foreclosures jump 25%.
• New durable goods orders excluding transportation post largest decline in 1-1/2 years.
• Frightening trend: Commercial Property Owners Choose to Default.
• 401(k) hardship withdrawals, loans SOAR.
• Dow Jones dips below psychologically-important 10,000 level.
• Nightmare 'Hindenburg Omen' triggered, but economic fundamentals just as scary.
• US unemployment figures increase fears of double-dip recession.
• Taliban in Afghanistan strengthening, spreading; violence surging.
• Top Marine General says Obama Afghan deadline gives sustenance to enemy.
• Spending baseline has increased $4.4 trillion under Democrat control.
• 2010 Federal Deficit Second Largest in 65 Years (2nd only to 2009).
• Trade gap widens, largest increase in imports in 26 years.
• Weak GDP raises fears, with Fed running out of options.

The mainstream media's adverb of the day to summarize all of the above is "unexpected," of course.

And my favorite headline while Obama was on vacation #6 (not hard give the competition) comes from Überlefty David Letterman:

• "Obama Will Have Plenty of Time for Vacations When His One Term Is Up."

Okay, scratch that: THIS is my favorite headline:

• "Democrats privately fear House prospects worsening."

All of these things were reported as occurring during one of Obama's four golf outings on his sixth vacation so far just this year.

And the bad news is that I am very likely missing some real important seriously bad news that's happened during Obama's little holiday from responsibility (but after all, it IS "Bush's fault," right? And why should Obama do anything to take responsibility when he can just continue to demonize Bush?).

But, I mean Obama's having a good time, right? Just imagine how much the worse our our sucky little lives would have been if Obama's vacation lacked some luxury that turned his smile into a frown...

Michelle Obama, the Bride of Messiah, decried America as a "downright mean" place in 2008, that was "guided by fear." Maybe so. But thanks to your husband, Michelle, it's gotten a whole hell of a lot meaner and a whole hell of a lot more fearful in the two years since in which Obama has led us down the path to ruin.

May Obama, having the rest and clarity of yet another vacation, decide to resign from office before it's too late to save what is left of the nation.

You probably won't listen to my version of "In the name of God, GO!" But it would sure be better for America - and even for your own party - if you did.

On the bright side, for you, Barry:

There's a place for "the hungry, the naked, the homeless, the crippled, the blind, the lepers, all those people who feel unwanted, unloved, uncared for throughout society, people that have become a burden to the society and are shunned by everyone."

Mother Teresa started it, and it's still running strong. Although you don't deserve it, Barry, there will be a place for you to go after you've imploded the entire American and global economies.

[Michael Eden]

If I missed a significant way that our economy plunged down the toilet while Obama was enjoying his vacation, let me know.

When you look at the list in its entirety, it is breathtaking in how bad things have gotten.

[Islander7]

Excellent! Shared with my mailing list and on FB. Thank you!

[Michael Eden]

Thanks! Get the word out!

I’m sure someone else has thought of the motif of listing terrible developments that have gripped the country while Zero was gripping a golf club, but I hadn’t seen it done yet.

[februus]

Diabolically clever! What a great juxtaposition of One Term Obama and the spreading economic wipeout. Good work on this!

[AZLiberty]

The mainstream media's adverb of the day to summarize all of the above is "unexpected," of course.

Adjective, not adverb.

[NorCoGOP]

"I'm having a great time,” the president said. “Doing a lot of reading"

Might I recommend any Econ 101 text book or even "Balancing checkbooks for Dummies"?

Put down the Marx collection and the Koran and read something that will HELP us...

...otherwise, STAY on vacation and let the grownups clean up your mess...

They are coming in November, you know, so you best get prepared.

Communists have their "October Revolution" to commemorate

Starting this November, Americans will have the "2nd American Revolution" to put on the commemorative holiday calendar.

[bcsco]

I get an “Error 404” when I visit your link...

[himno hero]

These are the fruits of his endeavors from seeds planted a year and a half ago.

Since then he planted more seeds, so many that he feels he can regularly go on holidays as America burns.

[rbg81]

Obama’s vacation is worth every penny. That way he isn’t mucking things up (as much).

[massmike]

read later

[FrdmLvr]

Could community activist Barack Hussein 0bama, working in the streets of Harlem and then Chicago, have ever afforded this lifestyle of his own volition? Granted, Hayden, Ayers, and Thomas Ayers (Bill Ayers father, head of Commonwealth Edison in Chicago) groomed him and authored his book “Dreams of My Father” which garnered him a small fortune, but nothing to the extent of the success he’s had since ascending to the jackpot as Leader of the Free World.

[Michael Eden]

Hmm.

I guess maybe “unexpectedly” is an adverb while “unexpected” is an adjective.

Thanks for my English refresher.

[Michael Eden]

I get an “Error 404” when I visit your link...
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Oh, oh.

Here’s the link that works:
http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2010/08/27/list-of-how-our-country-went-to-hell-while-obama-on-vacation-6-almost-as-long-as-it-is-scary/

Maybe if I say “moderator, moderator, moderator, moderator, moderator” the moderator will magically appear and redo my site link.

Not to be attempted with “Candyman.”

[bcsco]

Thanks! I want to send the link out to some email buddies. BTW, while not on the topic of the economy, here's another area that has further destabilized during his much needed vacation...

Tension over Obama policies within Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Uphold the law!)

[tumblindice]

“lobster tempura”

Mmmmm mmmmm mmmm, country fried crustacean.

[TennesseeProfessor]

Well, certainly Obama is doing nothing to help the economy.

On the other hand, he’s stopped hurting it. After seeing the policies he pursues, I highly encourage Obama to vacation every day from now to 2012.

[Michael Eden]

From the King Hussein Version, Genesis of America’s Demise, chapter 2:

“Thus the economy and American foreign policy were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh vacation The One temporarily paused his destruction which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his destruction which he had made.”

Okay, it’s not actually Obama’s seventh vacation this year, but it’s close enough.

http://startthinkingright.wordpress.com/2010/08/19/and-on-the-seventh-vacation-obama-rested-from-all-his-failures/

[kromike]

Maybe if I say “moderator, moderator, moderator, moderator, moderator” the moderator will magically appear and redo my site link. Not to be attempted with “Candyman.”

Why? Are you afraid that he'll appear & start rapping about 'knocking boots'?

;^)

[Michael Eden]

Well, I guess I AM more afraid of Freddie Krueger, Michael Myers, and Jason Voorhees...

But Candyman is surely pretty scary, too.

Maybe not as scary as a moderator at 5:00 AM, but scary.

[N. Theknow]

lawyer and business executive Vernon Jordan

LOL! Vernon Jordan is the green bottle fly that is always around the Democrat turds that have been/are POtuS.

Bill Clinton: "Vernon, since you sit on the Board of Directors, can you find a job at Revlon or American Express for Monica Lewinski?"