Via JammieWearingFool, via Instapundit) Not to be unkind or anything – no, really, I’m trying not to be – but I have to ask:
Increasingly unloved and ridiculed from both sides, a new and embittered President Obama is emerging this Christmas season as he begins a badly needed vacation in Hawaii.
Why ‘badly needed?’ What, exactly, has the President done this year, besides calmly watch legislators from his party drain the treasury?
Moving along, while I recognize that the President’s in need of a serious attitude adjustment I don’t see any way of getting him to have one until the Democrats get smacked around a bit more. Losing thirty House seats might do it: flipping the House may do it. Flipping the House and getting more than five seats in the Senate back will almost certainly do it, particularly if there’s a discreet amount of payback afterward. Admittedly, it would have been better for the country’s sake if the President’s party had cared enough about Obama’s personal development to teach him some limits as a state legislator, but the past is the past. What’s important now is making sure that, going forward, he learns proper life lessons.
After all, we’re stuck with him for the time being.
Moe Lane
Crossposted to Moe Lane.
Steve Maley
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Obama, the POTUS, is now the ultimate victim.
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 1:35PM EST (link)The lame stream media feels bad for him. How pathetic.
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
We need to send Obama on a permanent vacation
izoneguy (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 1:41PM EST (link)If Obama was to be judged by the private sector – he would have been collecting unemployment by now.
The point cannot be made often enough: Modern liberalism, as embodied in the Obama presidency, is the defender of the status quo. And the status quo is a road to economic ruin. Political forces cannot redistribute the wealth that the economic system does not produce.
If I had my choice
Mayhem (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 2:12PM EST (link)I’d make the Dems 218-217 in the House and 51-49 in the Senate. That way, we’d be able to block everything, make their lives miserable, and they’d still get the blame for all the crap that is still to come.
James Madison, Jim DeMint, Margaret Thatcher, Ronald Reagan… You get the picture.
His type
michigan Saturday, December 26th at 2:25PM EST (link)will never learn. It will be by the mechanisms that Moe states, but it won’t be by Obama’s direct observation, conclusion and action. He’s a hyper narcissist that doesn’t have it in his lexicon to say two really important prhases; one being the words “I’m sorry”; two being the phrase, “I was wrong”. When both bodies of congress experience heavy losses to the Democrats, it will be ONLY by his own party member’s unwillingness to support his proposals and policies that will neutralize his zealotry to incur further damage to the party. He, himself will NEVER accept that it is HIM.
Blessing in disguise
vanekl (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 2:49PM EST (link)Every day OHB is away from the WH is a great day for America. To wit, the only thing he’s done recently is whine to the press. And if he wants to stay outside the continental US I will personally see to it that I raise money to help make that a reality. I would love three more years of this and count my blessings, no matter how small.
Err, BHO. nt
vanekl (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 2:52PM EST (link)Obama getting back to his Marxist roots
jeannieology (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 2:58PM EST (link)http://news.yahoo.com/video/health-15749655/inside-the-obamas-winter-white-house-17278813
www.jeannie-ology.com
How can we tell when he's on vacation?
RedBeard Saturday, December 26th at 3:00PM EST (link)I mean, right now it’s easy, with the $4000-per-day digs he is renting in Hawaii. Obviously a vacation.
But after he gets back, can anyone tell when he’s actually working? Flying off to claim an ill-gotten Nobel doesn’t count.
Well, I suppose when you’re a guy who has never held a productive job……….
Standard-bearer for grouchy curmudgeonry since, oh, 1975 or so.
Why didn't he Stay-cation like the rest of us and chip in with the American "sacrifice"? /nt
Veronica (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 4:25PM EST (link)~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pray as if everything depends on God, and work as if everything depends on us. – St. Augustine
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Because he is leading
oblio Saturday, December 26th at 5:31PM EST (link)his constituency by example. Spending the hard earned money of people who work for a living.
I'm sure there are secure lines on the golf course and on jet skis.
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 5:37PM EST (link)Re: bodysurfing “The Secret Service these days does not like me doing it,” he told American Urban Radio Networks. “The last time I tried it, they had a bunch of people out on jet skis in the water and surrounding me with all kinds of stuff, and it was a little distracting for the other swimmers. So I don’t know if I’ll get out there this year, but I tell you what, I will definitely be enjoying some sun.”
KANEOHE BAY, Hawaii – President Barack Obama is playing golf with friends from Hawaii and Chicago on the second full day of his Hawaii vacation.
Here is a NYT headline: Taking Work Home (Even When Home Means Hawaii)
Poor POTUS Obama the victim, even has to take work home to Hawaii! That poor guy!
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
When GWB was President, the President wasn't supposed to vacation
Achance (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 6:06PM EST (link)since there was a war on or something. Anybody else remember how awful it was anytime GWB took a few days away? Guess everything is different for Comrade Obama.
In Vino Veritas
That would be a Yes
djemi (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 7:31PM EST (link)But given the choice of Texas or Hawaii, I might choose Texas but I’m sure the elite know-it-all media type would rather jet to Hawaii, cardonfootprint and all.
“If I can’t shoot rabbits,then I can’t shoot fascist”
“With age, comes Wisdom, but only if you are paying Attention, son” my ‘Old Man’
RS Help files (h/t JLenardDetroit) Grassroots in Michigan
Moes Strategy
Why "badly needed"?
stratdaddy Saturday, December 26th at 7:11PM EST (link)Obviously you haven’t had to split your energies between running the permanent campaign and doing that leader-of-the-free-world thing they keep making him do. It takes a lot ot of a guy.
You Just Can't Fix Stupid
tsquare (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 7:24PM EST (link)Re: Or, educating POTUS.
What a tool…
Lame stream media cover.
Common_Cents (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 8:47PM EST (link)Title of a NYT article.
“If presidents travel, so does Oval Office”
Gee, do we need to be edumacated that a POTUS is on call during vaca and may have to work?
I wonder if you informed your readers of the same when Bush was at the ranch?
Obama=Golfer in Chief, Leading from,
behind, the Back Nine.Leaders don’t create movements. Movements create leaders. Get involved. Your future depends on it.
Govt “invests” YOUR tax money for POLITICAL return rather than economic return.
Bush never "worked" when he was on vacation.
mbecker908 (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 8:53PM EST (link)Actually, I don’t think he worked while he was in DC. At least I don’t recall any stories about it.
Bush, Clinton, and Reagan waited until after Christmas day to go on vacation
Old_Crow (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 10:04PM EST (link)so that the Secret Service and the vast support staff that always travel with him, would have Christmas day with their families.
But then again, if you are a self-absorbed narcissist who thinks the entire world should worship you – you don’t really concern yourself with the ‘little people’ who protect your life and such.
“Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm.” — James Madison
That just about says it all, Old Crow...
rbdwiggins (Diary) Saturday, December 26th at 10:45PM EST (link)By the way, it looks like President Obama has aged about 7 years since his inauguration.
Too bad he hasn’t matured that much as well.
“Well, the trouble with our liberal friends is not that they are ignorant, but that they know so much that isn’t so.” – Ronald Reagan