Posted on 08/27/2011 6:59:31 AM PDT by radioone
Barack Obama’s misadventures in Martha’s Vineyard are some of the stranger unforced public-relations errors in recent memory. Spending a fortune to jet off to a fabled playground of the rich, while the country suffers from his recessionary economic policies, was a bizarre slap in the face to an electorate that has already come to view this President as arrogant and out-of-touch. “Optics” matter. Camp David is a nice vacation spot, too.
Naturally, Obama played a lot of golf on vacation. Part of the problem with skipping off to the golf course so frequently is that when he plays a lot of golf on vacation, he gets heat for it. Upon learning that Obama “played the trifecta” by hitting all three of the big golf courses in Martha’s Vineyard, Downgrade America finds itself wondering how much that costs.
The snarky White House response of asking about Speaker John Boehner’s handicap was a disaster. It’s childish, it keeps people talking about the President’s incessant putting, it diminishes the stature of an office we like to think of as uniquely important, and it puts Obama in the middle of a very large glass house with stones in his hands.
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Reminds me of an a-hole manager I worked for. He frowned on people taking vacation unless it was a day or two at a time and not like a week or two weeks. Of course he takes two weeks vacation and goes to Martha’s Vineyard for it ! Of course, he was a liberal democrat and full of himself. Two birds of a feather !
It’s all about him.
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How could this be??
At the time Bo was acquired, thought I heard the girls had full responsibility for caring for him. Over $100,000 for someone else to care for him? A separate jet for him and his care taker? Air Force One not large enough?
BO’S VACATION IN MAINE
I guess since they had to swallow their pride and use the Gulfstream there just wasn’t enough room for the dog and one other person on Air Force One.
Did you know that President Barack Hussein Obama flew Bo, their dog, in on a separate smaller jet to Maine for their vacation? I wonder if that sets well with all the unemployed, hurting, U S citizens who can’t afford food, but we can pay for this.
The above is true. I Googled “Bo the dog flying to Maine “ and got 76,700 references verifying this.
Michelle Malkin: Just Plane Crazy: Obama’s Dog Flies to Vacation on Separate Jet.
Doug Powers:
The Obamas arrived at their vacation spot in Maine , and the local paper, the Morning Sentinel, described the scene:
The president was the first to walk onto the tarmac, dressed casually in a pale blue Oxford shirt and khakis. A few minutes later, the first lady, dressed in black caprice, a tank-top and sandals, walked onto the runway. Shortly afterward, Malia and Sasha joined their parents.
Baldacci and his wife, Karen, presented the family with gift bags full of Maine-made goodies, including baskets made by the Passamaquoddy Tribe, popcorn from Little Lad’s Bakery in East Corinth , iconic L.L. Bean bags, University of Maine ice hockey hats, and an assortment of other Maine foods and books. Karen Baldacci said the bags for Malia and Sasha contained one loon toy and one chickadee toy that sound their natural calls.
Arriving in a small jet before the Obama’s was the first dog, Bo, a Portuguese water dog given as a present by the late U S Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.; and the president’s personal aide Reggie Love, who chatted with Baldacci. The president, who said the rest of us are going to have to sacrifice to get out of these hard economic times, let his dog fly on his own plane? Not enough room on Air Force One (a Gulfstream on this trip) for a Portuguese water dog and Reggie Love?
My dog saw this story and wants his own jet now, too.
Oh, by the way, Mr. Love, Bo’s handler, is paid $102,000 a year to take care of him.
What side of the ballot will you mark in November ? This man is taking the nation for every cent he can and then some.
CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS???
(BO - the other dog)
Yeah, I had a boss like that too. He treated paydays like a drive by shooting, cussed and faunched over coming up with the money to make payroll. Then he hies out the door to his private condo with his latest hoochie behind his wife’s back, where I had to have a $1200 crate of wine delivered every month and had to make sure the maids got paid.
He is a vile president!
LOL!
The MSM likes to compare these vacations to Reagan, GHWB, and GWB’s vacations. However they leave out that these Presidents spent their vacation time on their own residential properties. Yes there were expenses such as developing the living quarters for their Secret Service details but those were one time expenses with on going maintenance costs.
Obama’s vacations away from “home” incur huge costs for logistics, planning, temporary housing for staff and SS details, as well as all of the background checks on the places they visit for shopping and dining. Then throw in the costs for planning multiple vacations sites as backups until an actual decision is made on where and when to go.
The skid mark’s whole worthless life is a vacation... from reality.
And to think that “The Evil Bush” swore off golf during his presidency by declaring that it was inappropriate for him to play golf while the nation was at war.
They are poking sticks in the eyes of all who are hurting because of their incompetent leadership.
Speaker John Boehner’s handicap is Harry Ried.
I’m thinking Hussein’s foreign handlers meet with him on his vacations to implement anti-American policy.
Obama and his people are not politically stupid. They know the “optics” of their actions and words.
The more arrogant things Obama does and the more arrogant statements we get from him and his staff, the more worried I get.
There are only two choices:
1) Obama has given up and is just “riding it out” until January 2013.
2) Obama has a diabolical plan that keeps him in office for a second (or more) term. The only thing that can make that happen would be something catastrophic.
“Over $100,000 for someone else to care for him?”
In fairness, Reggie Love also frequently plays basketball with POTUS, so he’s really doing 2 jobs for the $102K a year he’s paid, so taxpayers actually are getting a huge bargain...
They never go there, which I find odd. I think most of us might have a lot less of a problem with "We want to spend a week (or a weekend) at our home in Chicago."
Nixon and Reagan went to their homes in California. Carter went to Plains. GHW Bush went to Maine. GW Bush went to Texas. Clinton didn't have a home, but I think we all knew that. We were also living in a very different time, economically.
I've come to the conclusion that Obama does not have the concept of home, the way most presidents, and most of us, do.
They say he's "tone deaf." I don't know that is even an accurate term. I'd say, rather, that he knows about as much, in a real sense, about the real lives of ordinary Americans as I do about European royalty. How can you possibly be "tuned in" to something so completely foreign to you?
Speaker Boner’s handicap is Speaker Boehner IMHO.
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