Posted on 12/29/2009 10:11:24 AM PST by castlegreyskull
WASHINGTON 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.
Not that the commander in chief really thinks he can escape his duties, even on an island. Amid golf, tennis, gym workouts and dinner, Obama has been called on to monitor the airliner attack in Detroit last Friday and what appeared to be another attack on Sunday that incident turned out to be a false alarm. On Monday, Obama worked out in the morning and played tennis before making his first public remarks on airline security, then hit the golf course.
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Must be the Wednesday nite activities.
I don’t even find Obama a man’s man. Not strong, virile, manly.
Maybe he needs to retire.
“(Thinkin’ about eventually) Presidentin’ is hard!”
Soooooo tired. Try working the night shift at a tire factory for 20 years. Ooooh, big decisions like the bail out. Is this year end vacation regular, I don’t remember if W took one. Now it will certainly be the norm for this weiner.
Presidenting is hard. If he’s not up to the task, he should do the right thing - resign.
Yeah picking up that golf club, collecting your undeserved nobel award, going on holiday for the umpteenth time, going on dates, throwing wild parties, yup thats pretty much it, is exhausting the poor baby, maybe he ought go resign and go back to chicago and run again for the senate seat he did nothing in except run for president.
its just so much hard work sitting on your fat patootie smokin crack.
“Big First Year Leaves Obama Exhausted”
Destroying a country is hard work.
He’s REALLY going to be tired when he is running from angry mobs.
Obama is a lazy incompetent!
Let’s see:
He has ‘exhausted’ the banks
He has ‘exhausted’ the car companies
He has ‘exhausted’ any attempt to finish building the wall at our southern border
He is in the process of ‘exhausting’ the health insurance companies, and by extension- every other type of insurance.
He is attempting to ‘exhaust’ small business with ‘card check’.
There’s more, but my brain is tired.
Unemployment would be a lot lower if he had used some the trillion in "stimulus" money to encourage small business to hire, instead of letting states balance their budgets, paying for "programs."
The health care bill should never have seen the light of day. There could have been a few small bills to clean up some of the biggest problems, like tort reform, cancelling coverage after someone gets sick, etc.
The global climate change agreement should have just been laughed at. Not one of these things needs to have caused the party-going pres to lose sleep.
I think I am going to go into journalism. When I see articles as dumb as this one so often, it just seems like an easy meal.
What a suck up this “reporter” is.
WOW!
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