[pieceofthepuzzle]

Why did I know when I saw the headline that this was going to be from the NYT?

[Darteaus94025]

RARE?!

BWA-HAHAHA!!!

What? They're serious?

[Paladin2]

"“I am sure,” he said, “that I will have even better ideas after a couple days of sleep and sun.” "

Lord, help us....

[Steely Tom]

Not near as rare as Hawaiian vacations are for me.

[bandleader]

“Even Better Ideas”?Is this guy TOTALLY”OUT TO LUNCH”?????

[bandleader]

MAJOR”BARF ALERT”!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[M Kehoe]

Good afternoon guy, I hope you are doing well.

Does Ashley Parker get those knee pads from Nordstroms?

5.56mm

[FlingWingFlyer]

Ashley Parker really needs to get out more. He/she is clueless.

[Starstruck]

My god. These people don’t even bother putting on the kneepads anymore, they are already in the position.

[Renkluaf]

Rare?

All the clown has done for 5 years is vacation, play golf & fund raise!

[NormsRevenge]

Fallujah fell to eL Qaeda, Mr. Obama. any comments? worth a damn..

what a disgrace .. regimes fall.. and so do poll numbers.

[St_Thomas_Aquinas]

The NYT giving the finger to the peasants again.

[ransomnote]

I haven’t had a vacation since 2000 and I have never been to Hawaii. I don’t see how the title of this article can be said to apply to Obama when it would accurately apply to me.

[Borax Queen]

If this were any R, the first sentence would not make it sound like they’re staying in a simple setting:

“....ensconced with his family in a private beachfront rental”...

They’d say something like:
“....the 1%er took his/her [token black][Down’s Syndrome][some other leftist insult] baby to a multimillion dollar, 200K/day [or whatever] mansion.”

[TexasCajun]

They expected no urgent news to break during the trip. And this year — for the first time since Mr. Obama took office and began making a regular Christmas sojourn to Hawaii, where he lived as a teenager — they were right.

Al Qaeda-linked forces capture town of Fallujah in Iraq

[ExTexasRedhead]

If the GOP had gonads, which they don’t, they would use photos of the King and Queen frolicking in Hawaii on our tax dollars. They could point out the abuse of our tax dollars being sucked up while disabled vets and We The People get benefits cut as well as loss of medical coverage. The photos with the appropriate comments would be awesome in the 2014 campaign ads.

[Oratam]

I'm convinced they know he must on occasion indulge his abominable lusts and a 2-weeks-or-more vacation (as far from Washington as he can be and still be in the U.S., by the way) is absolutely necessary.

It reminds me of a story I read about how Spencer Tracy, an alcoholic, allowed himself one weekend a year in which to indulge out of sight of everyone but the hotel staff who cleaned up his room afterwards.

[TexasCajun]

Geeezzz! ...a generation lost to liberal indoctrination.

[Stosh]

If I didn’t know better, I’d say the Times was parodying itself.

[Borax Queen]

Mr. Obama’s winter vacation has often been delayed, cut short or interrupted by the demands of the Oval Office...

WA WA WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA -- I'm so terribly sorry that he was able to have spring, summer, and fall multimillion vacations, but got a phone call or two each "winter vacation."

Anyone who owns a business or has a leadership position in the private sector knows how often we can go away, uninterrupted.

We're truly the laughingstock of the world now.