Posted on 08/19/2011 12:26:26 AM PDT by fight_truth_decay
President Obama’s holiday haven is a favourite with the rich and famous, but conceals some dark secrets.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
President Obama: “One of those magical places where people of all different walks of life come together; where they take each other at face value.”
“We have a manic depressive culture here,” says Tom Bennett, the Associate Executive Director and Senior Clinical advisor at Martha’s Vineyard Community Services.
I guess we should look for riots and looting, then.
..from boarding school dropouts ?
A little trivia point, the last time Martha’s Vineyard (Dukes County) voted GOP for President was in 1972. Voted 3-to-1 for Zero in ‘08, the second most Dem county in MA after Boston’s Suffolk. Kinda says it all.
from the yout’.
It’s a ghetto for rich White people.
Its probably like that at any tourist town that relies on some type of seasonal attraction. Ski town? Etc.
Sometimes a writer will go there in the off season to be a caretaker of a certain, oh I don’t know, lets say Inn or something, to take advantage of the isolation to have time to write his great American novel, and I don’t know, lets say his son has the shine, and he meets Scatman Carothers and. . . . . . . Well. I think you get the point.
"You think these suckers are gonna vote for you again, after all your screwups?"
"My screwups? You the one who went globe-trotting in designer outfits."
Actually, it was one of the first playgrounds of well to do black people and continues to be so today. It is not all black. If memory serves me correctly, the traitor Walter Cronkite had a home there. So did Art Buchwald.
It makes sense that Obama would vacation there.
“Sure is a pretty place.”
Actually, I was thinking the same thing.
Most fishing towns/rural areas that are the playgorunds of the rich in the summer revert to a small heavily substance abusing population in the winter. (i.e. Nantucket, The Cape, Montauk, Block Island. etc, etc.)
My sister’s there now...hope it rains.
FWIW, “The Vineyard” isn’t a pimple on Nantucket’s ass.
Although, personally, I could care less about “the Cape and the islands”.
Give me either RI beaches, the North Shore of MA, or Maine.
Like I said in another post:
My sister’s there now...hope it rains.
FWIW, “The Vineyard” isn’t a pimple on Nantucket’s ass.
Although, personally, I could care less about “the Cape and the islands”.
Give me either RI beaches, the North Shore of MA, or Maine.
They love to take photos of the working folks hauling traps and all love the post card scenic beauty that make up the natural beauty of the coastline and harbors..but they still remain "tourists" as most in their hurry to take it all in, they lack the ability-as does Obama-"to fit in" and see what truly makes up a large part of the very places they consider so breathtaking-its natives. New Englanders have a history of hard work, many months existing in a harsh climate, helping one another when times get hard, taking time to nod to tourists as they rush on by, the old '48 chevy pickup sputtering by carrying whatever needs carrying a-"no in with the new"; for no reason, "out with the old mentality".
What they enjoy is ..what was that movie where the wives all were dressed in designer clothes in full makeup and all stayed home in they perfectly painted clapboard homes with perfect flowers bordering the walkways and filling window boxes, children with not a speck dirt on their play-clothes, husbands driving BMWs with their sweaters tied around their shoulders lunching with their buddies at the club, discussing their golf game and ogling a new young summer hire..Ah..the Stepford Wives, rather a Stepford Place, a manufactured setting which they believe is real and exemplifies the perfect and happy life-if only...
MV, to me is so cliche'.
I’ve never set foot on the Vinyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhd. When we went up to New England, I had to choose either to visit it or Nantucket, and I went with Nantucket. Spent two nights in High Anus Port (right before I had the special P-Town chowdah).
Good choice! Again, IMHO, Cape Cod & Islands are overrated.
Ah yes, the special chowdah. PTown.
The queers I’m friends with won’t go to PTown because it’s “too queer”.
FRiend,
No problem! Your assessment of the Cape and MV is 1,000% perfect!
Well done! :)
FRiend,
No problem! Your assessment of the Cape and MV is 1,000% perfect!
Well done! :)
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