Sleep is over rated anyway, stay vigilant 'till 2012.
Posted on 12/29/2009 4:52:31 AM PST by IbJensen
Washington (AP) - After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency -- the early decisions to bail out the nation's banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.
Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it's no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.
Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an "extraordinary year."
"You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people," he said in an interview with CBS News last month. "Absolutely that weighs on me."
That weight was particularly striking during the president's exhaustive, three-month review of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.
(Excerpt) Read more at cnsnews.com ...
Carol Platt Liebau was the first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review;-—> “You would think this is the time he’d really knuckle down and get to work “
Carol Platt Liebau was first female managing editor of the Harvard Law Review;
“It reminds me a little bit of my experience with him [Obama]when he was president of the Harvard Law Review. You know, I hesitated to say a lot about this during the campaign because I really thought maybe it wasn’t fair. That maybe, finally, when he got to be President, this would be a job big enough to engage and hold Barack Obama’s sustained interest, because really, is there a bigger job out here?
[...]
“[W]hen he was at the HLR you did get a very distinct sense that he was the kind of guy who much more interested in being the president of the Review, than he was in doing anything as president of the Review.”
“A lot of the time he quote/unquote “worked from home”, which was sort of a shorthand - and people would say it sort of wryly - shorthand for not really doing much. He just wasn’t around. Most of the day to day work was carried out by the managing editor of the Review, my predecessor, a great guy called Tom Pirelli whose actually going to be one of the assistant attorney generals now.”
“He’s the one who did most of the day to day work. Barack Obama was nowhere to be seen. Occasionally he would drop in he would talk to people, and then he’d leave again as though his very arrival had been a benediction in and of itself, but not very much got done.”
I vote for MORE time on the golf course & less time screwing up America.
So as America is experiencing a national sleep apnea from king OblahMao edicts the AP story weeps for its pampered royalty. Boo freaken’ hoo.
This kind of story is why the MSM has no credibility left. The MSM has gotten tired and lazy in their 24/7 shilling for....tired, lazy and incompetent RAT politicians.
Mr. President, I stayed up until midnight last night, paying bills, juggling and crunching the numbers, trying to decide which bills would be paid this week and which ones could wait until my next paycheck. I finally settled on paying all but two, and had to scalp money from my daughter’s disability check to cover what I couldn’t carry. But that’s ok, really......because, you see, I have hope, and I’m hoping for some change. You told me to do that. You promised me that life would be better. You should hear my friends......one has a husband who just lost his job of 20+ years. Two of them just got new jobs, but have more than a years worth of bills to catch up. Another friend has been out of work for over a year, still unemployed. They just whine and complain all the time. But not me, no-siree. I have hope. I just listed some furniture on craigslist, and I’m getting my silver service appraised so I can sell that too. And if worse comes to worst, I still have my parents wedding bands. So you see.....I have hope.....I hope for some change.
Living a lie must be tiring.
“President Bush’s schedule was unbelievable and I never heard him complain...
Obama was even complaining during the campaign...about planes and hotels,etc. Obama is LAZY and he certainly doesn’t give a damn about us”
_______________________________________________
I couldn’t have said it better.
And he not only doesn’t care about us, he doesn’t care about (the) U.S.
What did he actually accomplish besides outsourcing the Porkulus bill to Pelosi and Reid? What is so tiring about doing not a single damn thing?
Now, now. Campaigning is work.
Looks like he's getting his wish.
Wow—fantastic list. Thank you for remembering all of that, ad for posting it.
Aw-w-w-w-w, is that great big king sized bed on Air Force One not comfy enough for Dear Leader? Congress had better launch a full investigation to see if a new beddie-by can be included in the HealthCare bill, as surely a good rest for Dear Leader is a prime health care concern.
Meanwhile, on the flights filled with mere peasants, they must stay in their cramped seats and keep their hands on their laps waiting to see if Janet baby allowed another terrorist, er freedom fighter, er isolated incident freedom fighter, on board to blow them all up.
All of us—including me. Oh yes, some of us whined about it and even wrote about it. But, in the end all we did was watch this train coming for 60 years and hope that “someone” would do something.
Surely people smarter than me figured out that the demrat left had a plan—probably conceived in the 1948-1953 time period—to coopt: US Supreme Court, education, labor unions, organized religion, media, targeted business leadership and the GOP. It succeeded in every case. Although the Supreme Court was at least neutralized during the Bush presidency. It remains to be seen whether or not that will hold up.
It should be apparent to anyone with an iota of intelligence that the GOP, post Reagan, is essentially an arm of the Demrat Party. But too many otherwise good people want to think that, essentially, nothing has changed in America after the Marxist Onada’s usurption of the US presidency.
The stark truth is that no one is going to fix the assault on America and our Constitution but individual
Americans like you and me.
Tea Parties fall a year ago represented the awakening. That movement was sustained by the Washington, DC, rally this summer. That resistance—despite the rats controlling WH, House and Senate—has virtually stalled Onada’s Marxist agenda.
But there are still too many people sitting it out. Think what can be achieved if all of us, who believe in what made this country great, stand up to be counted now. How much effort does it take to make a phone call, send an email, send money and/or actively support conservative candidates or even attend a Tea Party. That’s chump change compared to what American patriots gave to birth This country.
Personally, I will die rather than submit to an illegitimate Marxist Government telling me it will manage my health care, require me to buy health insurance or pay for abortions. I view abortion as murder. I will not abide a government edict requiring me to aid and abet the crime.
Obama charged the American people for a Hawaiian vacation they couldn't themselves take nor afford.
It's obvious that yes, there are indeed snakes in Hawaii.
You too?
I’m glad I’m not alone.
Want an early 30 second laugh?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PkdqasetNgk&feature=player_embedded
That’s just plain funny, right there. heh
I would sleep more soundly if you occupied the oval orifice rather than this despicable communist liar and hater of America.
Obama must resign for health reasons. Today. Actually, this morning would be fine. It can't happen too soon.
Comandante Zero is tired. So are we all.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.