Vacationing Obama can't shed White House entourage

ap ^ | Aug 22 | GLEN JOHNSON

[JoeProBono]

VINEYARD HAVEN, Mass. (AP) -- President Barack Obama had a simple task for his first morning on vacation: shoot over to a Martha's Vineyard bookstore to fill out his daughters' summer reading list and grab himself a novel.

Easier said than done.

His SUV, part of a 20-vehicle motorcade, passed through a cordon of Massachusetts State Police motorcycle officers, in a protective cocoon of Secret Service agents.......

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

If ever there were a legitimate inspiration for evil thoughts...

[Carley]

Ambulances and fire engines, usually part of the entourage. Not usually shown.

Some of the firefighters that protected Dubya were lost on 9/11.

[spectre]

Jan. 2013 can't come fast enough! The rejected Obamas will have only a couple of secret service gofers and they'll be stuck in traffic like the rest of us peons.

"The bigger they are, the harder they fall"...Ummm, ummm, ummm!

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[blackbart.223]

"If ever there were a legitimate inspiration for evil thoughts..."

As rotten as Obama is I don't let evil thoughts enter my head. I'm better than that and I think you are too.

[KC_Conspirator]

So this is supposed to make out of work Americans sympathize with Obama, who is on his 9th vacation this summer?

[conservative cat]

Plus, the summer break is almost over. If she had a summer reading list, they should have acquired those books in ummm, late May or mid-June, depending on their school schedule.

[NELSON111]

Is he wearing sandles?

Is it snobby of me to not want my president wearing sandles in public?

[Catsrus]

I don’t know if its snobby or not, but, I’m glad he’s your president, because he sure isn’t mine!

[microgood]

The amount we spend on security for the President is ridiculous. After all, a president is just a politician and they are a dime a dozen.

I liked it better in the past. Harry Truman walked out of the White House and caught a train home all by himself.

If I was President I would make them sell the 747 and switch to a 737 at the most.

[blackbart.223]

"Plus, the summer break is almost over. If she had a summer reading list, they should have acquired those books in ummm, late May or mid-June, depending on their school schedule."

This is just a BS sob story to make people feel sorry for Obama and hie "tribulations". It doesn't wash with me and many others.

[TheClintons-STILLAnti-American]

"As rotten as Obama is I don't let evil thoughts enter my head. I'm better than that and I think you are too. "

If I weren't I'd still be a Liberal. ;>)

[kabar]

Absolutely. It is called the “secure package” that usually includes 13 vehicles. That is true whether here or overseas.

[FrdmLvr]

He’s gotta know what an inconvenience his traveling causes the locals every time he goes somewhere. Yet he doesn’t care. It’s the height of arrogance and self centeredness.

[JoeProBono]

[Montanabound]

’ If she had a summer reading list, they should have acquired those books in ummm, late May or mid-June, depending on their school schedule.’

Good point! School has already started here.

[goseminoles]

I was in Clintons motorcade as a LEO intern. Never saw an ambulance.

[hoosiermama]

Looks to me like a guy that needs to get out of the house and away from MOOchelle for a while....

[Duchess47]

Looks like he has a black eye in that picture.

[NormsRevenge]

I’d like to see him try vacationing in Oakland.

[little jeremiah]

Remember when 0thugga vacationed in HI over Christmas? There was some kind of incident in which an ambulance was called, supposedly for a guest who got an injury.