Posted on 09/29/2013 6:16:52 AM PDT by Kaslin
Don wrote: Just how many vacation days did President George W. Bush take during his reign? - Obama on Vacation: The $28,429,533.47 Man
Dear Comrade Don,
George W. Bush took vacations either at his own home in Texas or at his parents’ place in Kennebunkport. That’s not the same thing as flying off to South Africa on safari or touring Brazil or hanging at Martha’s Vineyard.
It’d be nice to see the Obamas go back to Illinois, back to Hyde Park for a vacation, and hey, it would lower their carbon footprint too.
But when exactly have liberals been a "do-as-I-do" kind of people?
The most consistent feature of liberal legislation is that it exempts them and their lobbyists, unions and corporate pals from the effects of the social engineering they foist on the rest of us.
Bush at least had the sense to hang up his golf bags and not play golf after 9/11.
Obama, on the other hand, avoids Chicago.
Perhaps that’s because he helped make Chicago the toilet that it’s become.
Whatever else you can say about Chicago, it’s a city that has been forged and refined by Democrats, like Obama.
When I was growing up there, the city at least functioned.
Today it’s just a shooting gallery.
And why not?
Cook County produces wonderful legislators like Jan Schakowsky (D-Socialist) whose husband was convicted of bank fraud, and failure to withhold taxes; and – I think there is more shame in this- was honored in 2000 by the Democratic Socialists of America with the Debs Award with the note: “Your work and your life honors the memory of Eugene V. Debs, Norman Thomas and Michael Harrington and continues their legacy of struggle for social justice. For your dedication to the fight for a just society, the Debs - Thomas - Harrington Dinner Committee hereby presents to you its annual award on this 5th day of May, 2000.”
I guess bank fraud and socialism do go together. If you understand how one works, you probably have a great understanding of the other too.
Anyway, I wouldn’t want to go back and live in Chicago no matter how big a mansion I owned, especially if, like Obama, I lived in Hyde Park.
And it’s not likely I’d ever go back unless I went there to clean it up.
None of that for Obama however.
“It could just be a diabolical, cruel rumor meant to hurt Chicago residents who are proud of the first couple's $1.8 million Hyde Park Georgian Revival mansion and history in the community,” reported the liberal blog PolicyMic during the reelection campaign when Obama wasn't sure he'd be back in the White House. “Several publications have hinted or stated outright that top Obama fundraiser Penny Pritzker has been orchestrating the purchase of an opulent $35 million Honolulu estate for the first couple.”
That's the same Penny Pritzker who Obama nominated for Secretary of Commerce. It's nice when you have "friends" in Chicago who happen to have $35 million to buy you a house.
I don’t know who should be more relieved by his departure for Honolulu, Obama or Chicago?
Egalitarians? That's for little people.
This is a city that kept Jesse Jackson Jr. elected and well-fed after he spent months in the Mayo Clinic for bi-polar depression, necessitated and occasioned by embezzlement charges. The voters would have kept sending him back to Washington too had the FBI not taken the matters out their hands by indicting Jackson.
This is also the city that sent back to the state legislature the first state house representative it has kicked out in 107 years. Do you know how hard it is to get kicked out the Illinois House?
From the CSMonitor:
Derrick Smith managed the rare feat of being expelled from the Illinois House. He faces corruption charges that could send him to federal prison. Authorities say they've got a recording of him requesting that a $7,000 bribe come in cash because he didn't "want no trace of it."
And yet, a smattering of blue-and-white "Vote Derrick Smith" yard signs dot the West Side. It's also not difficult to find people who say they're going to cast a ballot for him. As the Democratic Party's candidate, the board is naturally tilted in Smith's favor.
Smith, you’ll be relieved to know was reelected in 2012 with 76.7% of the vote. It's even harder apparently to stay out once kicked out.
Illinois voters have a contempt for common sense.
So, do I find it outrageous or unbelievable that Penny Pritzker is holding out the hat for Barack Obama, helping him buy a $35 million mansion in Hawaii?
Nope. He needs a place to vacation.
Plus Obama bought his Hyde Park manse with a little help from some “friends.”
Chicago power politics will always stick to Obama no matter where he goes, even if Obama doesn’t stick with Chicago.
So don’t even get me started on vacations, Obama and graft.
The very fact that you defend these doofus-stooges disqualifies you from full-fledged membership in the human race.
Democrat economics probably works out well for you.
Unfortunately George Soros has a lot of ties to the GOP....and also the Bush family....see Carlyle Group, Spectrum 7. Kinda kills the rationale for this whole article
After the GOP voted to fund ObamaCare in the Senate...one surely cannot believe the GOP leadership is conservative in any way
This is like “The Picture of Dorian Gray” reversed. Somewhere there is a painting of soros, wherein the subject ages with time, but grows more and more handsome.
Remember too, that 43 took Christmas at Camp David. The Marines maintain a year-round protection of the mountaintop retreat. That allowed the president to permit his Secret Service detail to be at home with their families for the holidays.
The current occupant enjoys the trappings of power and loves his jet-setting lifestyle where the taxpayers foot the bill for extravagant retreats.
EVIL sure is UGLY!
You said it
Yes I remember, and unlike President Bush, that arrogant pos occupant of 1600 Pennsylvania Ave doesn’t care about anyone else, but himself
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