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May 4, 2014 14:17:12   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-records-detailing-government-funds-expended-on-first-daughter-malia-obamas-spring-break-trip-to-mexico/

Must be nice to be able to dip into public funds every time your family members want to make a trip. :hunf:

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May 4, 2014 14:26:56   #
endofdays2014
 
Though this isnt a squirt in the bucket it is yet another example of them looking right at us and saying HA! What are you gunna do about it. Sadly as of this moment they are right, we are doing nothing.

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May 4, 2014 14:28:43   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
endofdays2014 wrote:
Though this isnt a squirt in the bucket it is yet another example of them looking right at us and saying HA! What are you gunna do about it. Sadly as of this moment they are right, we are doing nothing.


Yup. :hunf:

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May 4, 2014 15:07:02   #
MarvinSussman
 
Elwood wrote:
http://www.judicialwatch.org/press-room/press-releases/judicial-watch-releases-records-detailing-government-funds-expended-on-first-daughter-malia-obamas-spring-break-trip-to-mexico/

Must be nice to be able to dip into public funds every time your family members want to make a trip. :hunf:


Why do darkies need a vacation? Bring back s***ery!

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May 4, 2014 15:35:13   #
Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone
 
It is not the matter of who needs or takes a vacation, it is the matter that tax payers are footing the bill. It is also a problem when someone controls the media and what they can publish. It is a problem when the US has 9 percent of its people out of work and our tax dollars are not going to fund trips that are now in the millions of dollars for whomever is in the White House.

“Criticism of p**********l vacations is almost as old as the presidency itself,” said Brendan Doherty, a political scientist at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Indeed, read on: President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Newport, Rhode Island, after mobs of segregationists prevented nine black students from attending Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. After a meeting with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus in Rhode Island failed to stem the crisis, Eisenhower raced back to Washington to explain in a televised address his decision to dispatch federal troops. “I could have spoken from Rhode Island, where I have been staying recently, but I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson and of Wilson, my words would more clearly convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to take and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course,” Eisenhower said in his Sept. 24, 1957, speech from the White House.

President Jimmy Carter encountered a “k**ler rabbit” during a 1979 fishing trip that became a symbolic precursor of his 1980 re-e******n defeat. While out on a pond in Georgia, Carter beat back a swimming rabbit with his paddle, he later recounted to aides. The story carried the headline in the Washington Post, “President Attacked By Rabbit,” that was quickly used by Carter’s opponents as a metaphor for a hapless and weakened presidency.

‘Huge Mistake’

In 2005, Bush ended a month-long vacation at his ranch two days early to survey -- from the sky on Air Force One -- the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, after facing criticism for remaining away while New Orleans flooded. Bush later said that observing the damage from the air was a “huge mistake” since it made him look “detached and uncaring.”

Four years later, Obama struggled to manage the political fallout from his vacation in Hawaii when a 23-year-old Nigerian attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

White House aides said they didn't anticipate news during Obama’s nine-day stay in Massachusetts, scheduling no public appearances for him. Obama ended speculation that he might again announce his choice for a Fed chairman during his holiday, telling reporters in an Aug. 9 news conference that he would select Bernanke’s successor in the fall.

The Vineyard is a familiar and sentimental spot for the president, who made his first visit in 2004, shortly after his national debut at that year’s Democratic National Convention. Oak Bluffs, a historically black area on the northern part of the island, includes a vacation home owned by longtime senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Atlantic View

This year, the president, first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, are rented a $7.6 million, 5,000-square-foot modernist estate with an infinity pool, half basketball court, gym and tennis court, according to a person familiar with the arrangements.

The property, on the island’s south shore, features floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Obama’s first outing was to the Farm Neck Golf Club, where vacationers lined a road to spot the president in a round of golf with aide Marvin Nicholson, White House chief Sam Kass, and former UBS Americas Chairman Robert Wolf. Wolf, now a Wall Street consultant, has advised the president on financial legislation and raised more than $500,000 for his re-e******n.

Golf Days

According to a Boston Globe analysis of White House pool reports, Obama has spent a total of 583 hours on the island -- including 56 hours on the links -- not counting this year’s visit.

His low-key style, mostly spending time with family and friends, marks a contrast to the Vineyard’s last p**********l vacationer, Bill Clinton, who attended parties hosted by celebrities such as actors Ted Danson and Sylvester Stallone.

Unlike Clinton, who relied on friends and donors to lend him their homes, Obama rents his vacation estate. That makes him different from most recent presidents, according to historians.

John F. Kennedy returned to his family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, while George H.W. Bush had a compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Richard Nixon had his “Florida White House” in Key Biscayne and his “Western White House’” in San Clemente, California.

“Where presidents go on vacation says something about where they define their roots -- to the extent that they have them,” said John Kenneth White, a p**********l scholar and professor of politics at Catholic University in Washington.

Consulting Pollster

While presidents may want to get away from it all and can check out of the White House, they can never really leave.

Regardless of the place or the president, politics is paramount. In 1995, Clinton passed up his annual trip to the Vineyard for a 17-day vacation in Jackson, Wyoming, after his pollster, Dick Morris, insisted that hiking and camping would help him win swing v**ers heading into a re-e******n campaign. Clinton, Morris wrote in his memoir, unhappily went, and spent as much time as possible on the golf course.

‘Stupid Idea’

P**********l vacations have long been fraught with symbolism. Like Bush, Ronald Reagan valued spending time at his ranch, in Santa Barbara, California, reveling in the rustic, cowboy image of a president chopping wood and riding horses.

The close to 350 days he spent at Rancho del Cielo, known as his Western White House, also contributed to the perception that he was disconnected from the management of his administration, said Doherty, an expert in p**********l travel.

“Even if a president can be just as effective on the road, there’s a powerful perception that he needs to be in Washington attending to the duties of his job,” said Doherty.

After Soviet fighter planes shot down a Korean Airlines flight in 1983, k*****g 269 people, including 62 Americans, Reagan’s deputy chief of staff, Michael Deaver tracked the president down in the tack barn, where he saddled his horses at the ranch, to tell him he needed to head back to Washington.

“Dammit, I’m the president whether I’m in California or the Oval Office,” Reagan replied, Deaver recounted in his book, “A Different Drummer.” “It’s a stupid idea.”

Reagan went anyway, returning to Washington for a speech denouncing the Soviet Union’s aggression.

I can go futher back in history for more examples if you would like to read them.

Just a point, should Obama's vacations not be criticized based on the fact that he is half black?

MarvinSussman wrote:
Why do darkies need a vacation? Bring back s***ery!

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May 4, 2014 16:13:35   #
docwill
 
MarvinSussman wrote:
Why do darkies need a vacation? Bring back s***ery!


And another L*****t dives into the gutter hoping to spray lies and diversion.

You L*****ts are nasty folks, aren't you?

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May 4, 2014 16:38:53   #
bmac32 Loc: West Florida
 
Wonder when the last time ole Marvin took a $350,000 vacation seeing how the average cost for a family of four is around $4500.



ginnyt wrote:
It is not the matter of who needs or takes a vacation, it is the matter that tax payers are footing the bill. It is also a problem when someone controls the media and what they can publish. It is a problem when the US has 9 percent of its people out of work and our tax dollars are not going to fund trips that are now in the millions of dollars for whomever is in the White House.

“Criticism of p**********l vacations is almost as old as the presidency itself,” said Brendan Doherty, a political scientist at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Indeed, read on: President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Newport, Rhode Island, after mobs of segregationists prevented nine black students from attending Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. After a meeting with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus in Rhode Island failed to stem the crisis, Eisenhower raced back to Washington to explain in a televised address his decision to dispatch federal troops. “I could have spoken from Rhode Island, where I have been staying recently, but I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson and of Wilson, my words would more clearly convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to take and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course,” Eisenhower said in his Sept. 24, 1957, speech from the White House.

President Jimmy Carter encountered a “k**ler rabbit” during a 1979 fishing trip that became a symbolic precursor of his 1980 re-e******n defeat. While out on a pond in Georgia, Carter beat back a swimming rabbit with his paddle, he later recounted to aides. The story carried the headline in the Washington Post, “President Attacked By Rabbit,” that was quickly used by Carter’s opponents as a metaphor for a hapless and weakened presidency.

‘Huge Mistake’

In 2005, Bush ended a month-long vacation at his ranch two days early to survey -- from the sky on Air Force One -- the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, after facing criticism for remaining away while New Orleans flooded. Bush later said that observing the damage from the air was a “huge mistake” since it made him look “detached and uncaring.”

Four years later, Obama struggled to manage the political fallout from his vacation in Hawaii when a 23-year-old Nigerian attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

White House aides said they didn't anticipate news during Obama’s nine-day stay in Massachusetts, scheduling no public appearances for him. Obama ended speculation that he might again announce his choice for a Fed chairman during his holiday, telling reporters in an Aug. 9 news conference that he would select Bernanke’s successor in the fall.

The Vineyard is a familiar and sentimental spot for the president, who made his first visit in 2004, shortly after his national debut at that year’s Democratic National Convention. Oak Bluffs, a historically black area on the northern part of the island, includes a vacation home owned by longtime senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Atlantic View

This year, the president, first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, are rented a $7.6 million, 5,000-square-foot modernist estate with an infinity pool, half basketball court, gym and tennis court, according to a person familiar with the arrangements.

The property, on the island’s south shore, features floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Obama’s first outing was to the Farm Neck Golf Club, where vacationers lined a road to spot the president in a round of golf with aide Marvin Nicholson, White House chief Sam Kass, and former UBS Americas Chairman Robert Wolf. Wolf, now a Wall Street consultant, has advised the president on financial legislation and raised more than $500,000 for his re-e******n.

Golf Days

According to a Boston Globe analysis of White House pool reports, Obama has spent a total of 583 hours on the island -- including 56 hours on the links -- not counting this year’s visit.

His low-key style, mostly spending time with family and friends, marks a contrast to the Vineyard’s last p**********l vacationer, Bill Clinton, who attended parties hosted by celebrities such as actors Ted Danson and Sylvester Stallone.

Unlike Clinton, who relied on friends and donors to lend him their homes, Obama rents his vacation estate. That makes him different from most recent presidents, according to historians.

John F. Kennedy returned to his family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, while George H.W. Bush had a compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Richard Nixon had his “Florida White House” in Key Biscayne and his “Western White House’” in San Clemente, California.

“Where presidents go on vacation says something about where they define their roots -- to the extent that they have them,” said John Kenneth White, a p**********l scholar and professor of politics at Catholic University in Washington.

Consulting Pollster

While presidents may want to get away from it all and can check out of the White House, they can never really leave.

Regardless of the place or the president, politics is paramount. In 1995, Clinton passed up his annual trip to the Vineyard for a 17-day vacation in Jackson, Wyoming, after his pollster, Dick Morris, insisted that hiking and camping would help him win swing v**ers heading into a re-e******n campaign. Clinton, Morris wrote in his memoir, unhappily went, and spent as much time as possible on the golf course.

‘Stupid Idea’

P**********l vacations have long been fraught with symbolism. Like Bush, Ronald Reagan valued spending time at his ranch, in Santa Barbara, California, reveling in the rustic, cowboy image of a president chopping wood and riding horses.

The close to 350 days he spent at Rancho del Cielo, known as his Western White House, also contributed to the perception that he was disconnected from the management of his administration, said Doherty, an expert in p**********l travel.

“Even if a president can be just as effective on the road, there’s a powerful perception that he needs to be in Washington attending to the duties of his job,” said Doherty.

After Soviet fighter planes shot down a Korean Airlines flight in 1983, k*****g 269 people, including 62 Americans, Reagan’s deputy chief of staff, Michael Deaver tracked the president down in the tack barn, where he saddled his horses at the ranch, to tell him he needed to head back to Washington.

“Dammit, I’m the president whether I’m in California or the Oval Office,” Reagan replied, Deaver recounted in his book, “A Different Drummer.” “It’s a stupid idea.”

Reagan went anyway, returning to Washington for a speech denouncing the Soviet Union’s aggression.

I can go futher back in history for more examples if you would like to read them.

Just a point, should Obama's vacations not be criticized based on the fact that he is half black?
It is not the matter of who needs or takes a vacat... (show quote)

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May 4, 2014 16:56:16   #
Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone
 
Good question. I can support vacations for the President and the family, but the expenses of this president are out of control. Millions and yes that is plural, have been taken out of the People's account to pay for just the wife and kids. I can not see where any other President saw it as an honest or right thing to do; that is spending money for shopping trips and ski trips for his children. And Ms. Obama, the woman who says that she shops at Target, sure is supporting some pretty fancy clothes these days. I went to Target, found no Gucci purses or fashion designed by Isabel Toledo, Jason Wu, Thakoon Panichgul and others that have bargain basement prices of $3,000 dresses. I know some will say she pays for her own clothes.... but, still seems to be somewhat of a falsehood to say that she shops at Target.

bmac32 wrote:
Wonder when the last time ole Marvin took a $350,000 vacation seeing how the average cost for a family of four is around $4500.

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May 4, 2014 17:03:43   #
MarvinSussman
 
bmac32 wrote:
Wonder when the last time ole Marvin took a $350,000 vacation seeing how the average cost for a family of four is around $4500.


How many pairs of shoes did you wear out walking around Bush's White House with your heavy signs protesting the invasion of Iraq?

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May 4, 2014 17:12:13   #
endofdays2014
 
I would just like to point out that ginnyt made a reference to unemployment being 9%. Idk where you dug that up as the news is saying 7.5 ish and the undoctored real numbers i read from the sorce i posted (zerohedge.com) says the real unemployment rate is impossible to count but that the confirmed figures are at 23% and likely are as high as 43%.

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May 4, 2014 17:59:36   #
Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone
 
Sorry, I used some outdated information. I should have done better research. Thank you for pointing this out.
endofdays2014 wrote:
I would just like to point out that ginnyt made a reference to unemployment being 9%. Idk where you dug that up as the news is saying 7.5 ish and the undoctored real numbers i read from the sorce i posted (zerohedge.com) says the real unemployment rate is impossible to count but that the confirmed figures are at 23% and likely are as high as 43%.

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May 4, 2014 18:12:07   #
MarvinSussman
 
ginnyt wrote:
It is not the matter of who needs or takes a vacation, it is the matter that tax payers are footing the bill. It is also a problem when someone controls the media and what they can publish. It is a problem when the US has 9 percent of its people out of work and our tax dollars are not going to fund trips that are now in the millions of dollars for whomever is in the White House.

“Criticism of p**********l vacations is almost as old as the presidency itself,” said Brendan Doherty, a political scientist at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Indeed, read on: President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Newport, Rhode Island, after mobs of segregationists prevented nine black students from attending Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. After a meeting with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus in Rhode Island failed to stem the crisis, Eisenhower raced back to Washington to explain in a televised address his decision to dispatch federal troops. “I could have spoken from Rhode Island, where I have been staying recently, but I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson and of Wilson, my words would more clearly convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to take and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course,” Eisenhower said in his Sept. 24, 1957, speech from the White House.

President Jimmy Carter encountered a “k**ler rabbit” during a 1979 fishing trip that became a symbolic precursor of his 1980 re-e******n defeat. While out on a pond in Georgia, Carter beat back a swimming rabbit with his paddle, he later recounted to aides. The story carried the headline in the Washington Post, “President Attacked By Rabbit,” that was quickly used by Carter’s opponents as a metaphor for a hapless and weakened presidency.

‘Huge Mistake’

In 2005, Bush ended a month-long vacation at his ranch two days early to survey -- from the sky on Air Force One -- the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, after facing criticism for remaining away while New Orleans flooded. Bush later said that observing the damage from the air was a “huge mistake” since it made him look “detached and uncaring.”

Four years later, Obama struggled to manage the political fallout from his vacation in Hawaii when a 23-year-old Nigerian attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

White House aides said they didn't anticipate news during Obama’s nine-day stay in Massachusetts, scheduling no public appearances for him. Obama ended speculation that he might again announce his choice for a Fed chairman during his holiday, telling reporters in an Aug. 9 news conference that he would select Bernanke’s successor in the fall.

The Vineyard is a familiar and sentimental spot for the president, who made his first visit in 2004, shortly after his national debut at that year’s Democratic National Convention. Oak Bluffs, a historically black area on the northern part of the island, includes a vacation home owned by longtime senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Atlantic View

This year, the president, first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, are rented a $7.6 million, 5,000-square-foot modernist estate with an infinity pool, half basketball court, gym and tennis court, according to a person familiar with the arrangements.

The property, on the island’s south shore, features floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Obama’s first outing was to the Farm Neck Golf Club, where vacationers lined a road to spot the president in a round of golf with aide Marvin Nicholson, White House chief Sam Kass, and former UBS Americas Chairman Robert Wolf. Wolf, now a Wall Street consultant, has advised the president on financial legislation and raised more than $500,000 for his re-e******n.

Golf Days

According to a Boston Globe analysis of White House pool reports, Obama has spent a total of 583 hours on the island -- including 56 hours on the links -- not counting this year’s visit.

His low-key style, mostly spending time with family and friends, marks a contrast to the Vineyard’s last p**********l vacationer, Bill Clinton, who attended parties hosted by celebrities such as actors Ted Danson and Sylvester Stallone.

Unlike Clinton, who relied on friends and donors to lend him their homes, Obama rents his vacation estate. That makes him different from most recent presidents, according to historians.

John F. Kennedy returned to his family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, while George H.W. Bush had a compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Richard Nixon had his “Florida White House” in Key Biscayne and his “Western White House’” in San Clemente, California.

“Where presidents go on vacation says something about where they define their roots -- to the extent that they have them,” said John Kenneth White, a p**********l scholar and professor of politics at Catholic University in Washington.

Consulting Pollster

While presidents may want to get away from it all and can check out of the White House, they can never really leave.

Regardless of the place or the president, politics is paramount. In 1995, Clinton passed up his annual trip to the Vineyard for a 17-day vacation in Jackson, Wyoming, after his pollster, Dick Morris, insisted that hiking and camping would help him win swing v**ers heading into a re-e******n campaign. Clinton, Morris wrote in his memoir, unhappily went, and spent as much time as possible on the golf course.

‘Stupid Idea’

P**********l vacations have long been fraught with symbolism. Like Bush, Ronald Reagan valued spending time at his ranch, in Santa Barbara, California, reveling in the rustic, cowboy image of a president chopping wood and riding horses.

The close to 350 days he spent at Rancho del Cielo, known as his Western White House, also contributed to the perception that he was disconnected from the management of his administration, said Doherty, an expert in p**********l travel.

“Even if a president can be just as effective on the road, there’s a powerful perception that he needs to be in Washington attending to the duties of his job,” said Doherty.

After Soviet fighter planes shot down a Korean Airlines flight in 1983, k*****g 269 people, including 62 Americans, Reagan’s deputy chief of staff, Michael Deaver tracked the president down in the tack barn, where he saddled his horses at the ranch, to tell him he needed to head back to Washington.

“Dammit, I’m the president whether I’m in California or the Oval Office,” Reagan replied, Deaver recounted in his book, “A Different Drummer.” “It’s a stupid idea.”

Reagan went anyway, returning to Washington for a speech denouncing the Soviet Union’s aggression.

I can go futher back in history for more examples if you would like to read them.

Just a point, should Obama's vacations not be criticized based on the fact that he is half black?
It is not the matter of who needs or takes a vacat... (show quote)


Unless you wore out two pairs of shoes walking around Bush's White House with heavy signs protesting the invasion of Iraq, don't complain to me about the cost of providing an environment that is normal for the family of a law lecturer who graduated from Harvard as editor of the law review and is now sacrificing a family's normal environment to serve his country.

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May 4, 2014 19:26:40   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
MarvinSussman wrote:
Why do darkies need a vacation? Bring back s***ery!


:lol: :lol: I am not touching that one. :-D

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May 4, 2014 19:31:40   #
Elwood Loc: Florida
 
ginnyt wrote:
It is not the matter of who needs or takes a vacation, it is the matter that tax payers are footing the bill. It is also a problem when someone controls the media and what they can publish. It is a problem when the US has 9 percent of its people out of work and our tax dollars are not going to fund trips that are now in the millions of dollars for whomever is in the White House.

“Criticism of p**********l vacations is almost as old as the presidency itself,” said Brendan Doherty, a political scientist at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland. Indeed, read on: President Dwight Eisenhower interrupted his vacation in Newport, Rhode Island, after mobs of segregationists prevented nine black students from attending Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. After a meeting with Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus in Rhode Island failed to stem the crisis, Eisenhower raced back to Washington to explain in a televised address his decision to dispatch federal troops. “I could have spoken from Rhode Island, where I have been staying recently, but I felt that, in speaking from the house of Lincoln, of Jackson and of Wilson, my words would more clearly convey both the sadness I feel in the action I was compelled today to take and the firmness with which I intend to pursue this course,” Eisenhower said in his Sept. 24, 1957, speech from the White House.

President Jimmy Carter encountered a “k**ler rabbit” during a 1979 fishing trip that became a symbolic precursor of his 1980 re-e******n defeat. While out on a pond in Georgia, Carter beat back a swimming rabbit with his paddle, he later recounted to aides. The story carried the headline in the Washington Post, “President Attacked By Rabbit,” that was quickly used by Carter’s opponents as a metaphor for a hapless and weakened presidency.

‘Huge Mistake’

In 2005, Bush ended a month-long vacation at his ranch two days early to survey -- from the sky on Air Force One -- the damage caused by Hurricane Katrina, after facing criticism for remaining away while New Orleans flooded. Bush later said that observing the damage from the air was a “huge mistake” since it made him look “detached and uncaring.”

Four years later, Obama struggled to manage the political fallout from his vacation in Hawaii when a 23-year-old Nigerian attempted to blow up a U.S.-bound airliner on Christmas Day.

White House aides said they didn't anticipate news during Obama’s nine-day stay in Massachusetts, scheduling no public appearances for him. Obama ended speculation that he might again announce his choice for a Fed chairman during his holiday, telling reporters in an Aug. 9 news conference that he would select Bernanke’s successor in the fall.

The Vineyard is a familiar and sentimental spot for the president, who made his first visit in 2004, shortly after his national debut at that year’s Democratic National Convention. Oak Bluffs, a historically black area on the northern part of the island, includes a vacation home owned by longtime senior adviser Valerie Jarrett.

Atlantic View

This year, the president, first lady Michelle Obama, and their daughters, Malia and Sasha, are rented a $7.6 million, 5,000-square-foot modernist estate with an infinity pool, half basketball court, gym and tennis court, according to a person familiar with the arrangements.

The property, on the island’s south shore, features floor-to-ceiling windows overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.

Obama’s first outing was to the Farm Neck Golf Club, where vacationers lined a road to spot the president in a round of golf with aide Marvin Nicholson, White House chief Sam Kass, and former UBS Americas Chairman Robert Wolf. Wolf, now a Wall Street consultant, has advised the president on financial legislation and raised more than $500,000 for his re-e******n.

Golf Days

According to a Boston Globe analysis of White House pool reports, Obama has spent a total of 583 hours on the island -- including 56 hours on the links -- not counting this year’s visit.

His low-key style, mostly spending time with family and friends, marks a contrast to the Vineyard’s last p**********l vacationer, Bill Clinton, who attended parties hosted by celebrities such as actors Ted Danson and Sylvester Stallone.

Unlike Clinton, who relied on friends and donors to lend him their homes, Obama rents his vacation estate. That makes him different from most recent presidents, according to historians.

John F. Kennedy returned to his family home in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts, while George H.W. Bush had a compound in Kennebunkport, Maine. Richard Nixon had his “Florida White House” in Key Biscayne and his “Western White House’” in San Clemente, California.

“Where presidents go on vacation says something about where they define their roots -- to the extent that they have them,” said John Kenneth White, a p**********l scholar and professor of politics at Catholic University in Washington.

Consulting Pollster

While presidents may want to get away from it all and can check out of the White House, they can never really leave.

Regardless of the place or the president, politics is paramount. In 1995, Clinton passed up his annual trip to the Vineyard for a 17-day vacation in Jackson, Wyoming, after his pollster, Dick Morris, insisted that hiking and camping would help him win swing v**ers heading into a re-e******n campaign. Clinton, Morris wrote in his memoir, unhappily went, and spent as much time as possible on the golf course.

‘Stupid Idea’

P**********l vacations have long been fraught with symbolism. Like Bush, Ronald Reagan valued spending time at his ranch, in Santa Barbara, California, reveling in the rustic, cowboy image of a president chopping wood and riding horses.

The close to 350 days he spent at Rancho del Cielo, known as his Western White House, also contributed to the perception that he was disconnected from the management of his administration, said Doherty, an expert in p**********l travel.

“Even if a president can be just as effective on the road, there’s a powerful perception that he needs to be in Washington attending to the duties of his job,” said Doherty.

After Soviet fighter planes shot down a Korean Airlines flight in 1983, k*****g 269 people, including 62 Americans, Reagan’s deputy chief of staff, Michael Deaver tracked the president down in the tack barn, where he saddled his horses at the ranch, to tell him he needed to head back to Washington.

“Dammit, I’m the president whether I’m in California or the Oval Office,” Reagan replied, Deaver recounted in his book, “A Different Drummer.” “It’s a stupid idea.”

Reagan went anyway, returning to Washington for a speech denouncing the Soviet Union’s aggression.

I can go futher back in history for more examples if you would like to read them.

Just a point, should Obama's vacations not be criticized based on the fact that he is half black?
It is not the matter of who needs or takes a vacat... (show quote)


If you read the article it was not about Obummer's vacations but the ones he sent his family on at tax payer expense. :hunf:

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May 4, 2014 20:25:21   #
Boo_Boo Loc: Jellystone
 
I do not know how many pair of shoes I wore out while on my job in DC. I do know that when President Bush received his briefings from me and others, he was never condescending nor did he ever show any signs of being un-p**********l. He was very concerned about our economy, more concerned about the War on Terrorism, and the morale of our nation. When he left office, I met with Obama one time. He decided that he did not need to know the vulnerabilities of our computer systems and that was that. He was impersonal, showed boredom when he was briefed about the same things as President Bush, and he seemed arrogant. No, he did not cut my funding and I maintained my contractors. I kept my job, but now I briefed the Joint Chiefs of Staff.

Did I protest the War, Heck NO! You see I have first hand knowledge of the death and stench of 911 at the Pentagon. Where were you? Did you protest the idea of war on 911 or even 912 or 913??? Were you in DC or NYC? Probably not. You see, when you are there the horror is real, first hand....it sucked!

MarvinSussman wrote:
Unless you wore out two pairs of shoes walking around Bush's White House with heavy signs protesting the invasion of Iraq, don't complain to me about the cost of providing an environment that is normal for the family of a law lecturer who graduated from Harvard as editor of the law review and is now sacrificing a family's normal environment to serve his country.

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