Posted on 08/23/2011 7:18:41 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
How do you score partisan points against a president who looks to have won a military victory in Libya at very low cost? Simple: Attack him for being away from Washington at a summer house when the victory was won.
That line of attack was tested by some Republican talkers and bloggers this weekend. I wonder if we'll hear more of it in the coming days.
Almost nothing in American politics drives more people to say more ridiculous things than the subject of presidential summer vacations.
Back during the George W. Bush years, Democrats sneered and scoffed at the 43rd president's extended visits to his Crawford, Texas, ranch. Where was the guy's work ethic?
Now the shoe is on the other foot. President Barack Obama has, for the second summer in a row, rented an expensive compound on the Atlantic island of Martha's Vineyard. What a snob!
Should the president go on vacation?
Waters: We want him to be tough
Voters fed up with being ignored RELATED TOPICS Barack Obama Bill Clinton George W. Bush U.S. Presidents Vacations Let's dial back and introduce some reality to this partisan point-scoring.
The president of the United States never gets a vacation, not really. The nuclear football follows wherever the president goes. He receives the daily intelligence briefing every morning, including Christmas. The decisions never stop, the cares of state never lighten, the burden of responsibility is never lifted.
When a president goes "on vacation," here's what happens:
1) He or she is spared the ceremonial parts of the job: the state dinners, the meetings with the girl who sold the most Girl Scout cookies that year, that kind of thing;
2) The other members of the first family are liberated from living inside the White House, aptly described by Harry Truman
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In a word:
NO!
WHAT??? Is this guy really saying that Obozo is going to claim credit for the win in Libya? Can anyone really call this journalism?
BS comes from many sources.
Laser beam focus on jobs is how.... Frum.
There was no clamor for Obama to attack Libya except maybe from George Soros (to make his investments in Brazil oil more valuable).
Oh pu-leeze.
>>Simple: Attack him for being away from Washington at a summer house when the victory was won.
But for 8 years daily, it was OK for the libtards to fire away at Bush.
Now, how many millions of our dollars are being spent to put Obama and family out of the reach of the Girl Scouts and other ceremonial riffraff?
when did Frum switch to the dark side? did Rahm find some dirt on him?
What are the American interest in Libya again?
And they actually once called this Frum clown a “conservative”...
1) He or she is spared the ceremonial parts of the job: the state dinners, the meetings with the girl who sold the most Girl Scout cookies that year, that kind of thing;
Did Frum (who's name rhymes with 'dumb') give any thought to this statement (like Obama wandering around eating ice cream, going to the beach, golfing) before he wrote it? Or, does he consider those goings on part of the work-a-day routine of this president?
I may be wrong here but isn’t there a big price difference between the ranch in Crawford and the estate in the Vineyards? Not only that, President Bush was out working with a chain saw, not out looking for ice cream.
“Won a military victory in Lybia” ??
Yep right ! He won a war he didn’t fight but he “only” approved(and funded) behind the scene.
And he was or is a wrong war which will participate to spread islamism in a big area.
David Frum says what ? BTW who is David Frum ?
why does anyone even read him?
he’s just another leftist Obama-loving hack.
and, i hope Obama DOES claim full credit for Libya.
because the Al-Qaeda that Obama is at “war” with in Afghanistan, is the same Al-Qaeda Obama helped in Libya.
many sources support this, including reports from the U.S. Governmnent.
Obama has directly helped to topple the 2 dictators
(even though they might be)
who most HELPED the USA against Islamists.
Give our Affirmative Action POTUS a break?
We need a break from Obama!
No arguments with you - just more supporting issue.
Last time I looked, the President didn’t get approval of Congress in any form. That makes it uhm....oh yeah. Un-Constitutional!
I still think we should be in the business of declaring war - for REAL any time our troops are deployed. That is what is required by the highest law of the land.
Even if you don’t agree with this point - the man violated the War powers act (likely also un-constitutional, but not declared so yet by the Courts..) Why - because he didn’t get the approval of Congress.. whoops -same problem.
Where ARE those impeachment articles?
When one leads from behind, one does not get to claim credit for any “victory.”
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