White House: Of Course Obama Is Going On Vacation Next Week…
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Shared sacrifice in Obama’s world means ten day vacations at a $20 million Martha’s Vineyard estate.
Via RCP:
Jake Tapper, ABC News: “You said the President will not rest until the joblessness and the economy are worked out, but the President is obviously going on vacation. But I was wondering, Is there any concern — I understand that it takes two to tango in Washington. We went over that the other day. You need the Congress to be in Washington. We went over that the other day about whether or not you guys should call Congress to come back. Is there any concern about the impression that the President going to Martha’s Vineyard for 9 or 10 days might leave on the American people? And also, if this is such an important issue for Speaker Boehner, for Harry Reid, for President Obama, why the R&R?”
Jay Carney, WH press secretary: “There are a couple of questions embedded in that. Let me go to acknowledge, that, yes, the President does plan to travel with his family at the end of August to Martha’s Vineyard as he has in the past. And I don’t think Americans out there would begrudge that notion that the President would spend some time with his family. It is also, as I think anyone who has covered in the past, either in this administration or others, there is no such thing as a presidential vacation. The Presidency travels with you. He will be in constant communication and get regular briefings from his national security team as well as his economic team. And he will of course be fully capable, if necessary, of traveling back if that were required. It is not very far.”
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, August 10, 2011, at 2:54 pm | 
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Let them eat peas.
Heh, “no such thing as a presidential vacation”.
Party till you puke!
“The Presidency travels with you.”
No Jay, not in Obamas case.
I’m loving me some Jake Tapper, lately.
Wow. No critizism about being indefferent to people’s suffering? Must be nice to have the media in your packpocket eh Obama?
The further away from the White House he is the better.
***Spit*** ,|,, him
Carney says the American people won’t begrudge him *spending time with his family*
YES WE DO!!
His OFFICE is at HOME!! How much MORE time and money needs to be spent to pamper this presidential POOF at some $20 million dollar estate in Martha’s Vineyard???
markets should rally when u leave
FUCK YOU carney. I have not been able to take any vacation this year thanks to the economy and the inability of the party in power to produce a budget. I do begrudge the man who has taken more vacation time in the last two years than I have in the last decade.
Good for Tapper! Nice to see a spine – thought they were all removed at the door .
What a load of crap!
At least some reporters are starting to call out the scumbags.
@Arabianmoondog
Exactly!
I’m sure they’re serving “peas” at Martha’s Vineyard. This guy is finished – as is our country almost. The sooner he’s on unending vacation, the sooner I will be a happy camper!
God bless America, our troops, Israel, and fellow humans.
Obama can’t stay on the job but just a few days at a time….he can’t stand any kind of pressure because he has NEVER had to be accountable for anything he has ever done, I think he is almost ready to crack…….( if he has’nt allready )
Every time GW Bush spent some R&R at his own ranch in Crawford, Texas, the press hounded him constantly for it.
What Jay Carnival Barker should have said is that Obama is spending the rest of Ramadan with his family.
The Presidency travels with you. Yeah…right down the shit hole. Dow down 439
Actually I do begrudge him. I have not been on a vacation in over 3 years. I work 2 jobs to make sure I barely survive. I work in an industry that has become so regulated that it is a death match just to make a sale at margins that are a fraction of what they were even 10 years ago….before I got in the business.
So to think that he even thinks of taking time off when the future of my children is at stake…is almost criminal. I am sure his children will never be at risk…mine on the other hand will start their adult hoods penniless, jobless, and in debt. I wish I could take them on vacation.
Now you know there will definitely be a media blackout on the Vineyard-where are the paparazzi when you need them?
This shizz has got to stop! Enough already.
Did you ever notice that Dear Leader always goes on “vacation” during Ramadan?
(And Ramadan is movable to other times during the year.)
Are there great whites at Martha’s Vineyard?
he’s been on vacation since he took office, what’s the problem?
Why, of COURSE he needs a vacation, especially to spend time with his family! All that golfing can wear a guy out, and leaves no time at home, after all!
Hillary and Bill are all ready in the Hampton’s renting a$ 35 million dollar home.
Still not going to give either one of them class… From the gutter they all came and to the gutter they will return… If KARMA has anything to say about it.
To the proletariat it’s a presidency. To Obama it’s an unending vacation, interrupted briefly by unavoidable unpleasantness called work.
It’s exhausting.
Shared sacrifice=less for you more for me
Austerity=more hours of work for you more vacations for me
Investments=Open your wallet taxpayer serf
Social Justice=Redistribution
definitely ..
The best thing he can do for his country in lie low for a while till this blows over
He should refine his hookshot while he is at it.
Tappah, Please! The Man is All the Way Tired! Troublesome burden and miseries.
“You can’t begrudge the President for spending time with his family.” I do begrudge Obama for vacationing during this economic turmoil. My father was a small businessman and had to cancel a couple of vacations to tend to crisis with his business. On second thought, I would prefer Obama to be on vacation while intelligent people handled this situation. Can he stay in Martha’s Vineyard until November 2012?
annual Ramadan getaway, we’re inoculated to the surprise of this now
I am American and I begrudge it….alot.
Bingo Bee1!
If I wasn’t so busy working and ‘paying’ taxes I could take a vacation, from which I, of course, could always return from if needed. Conversely, Obama is busy ‘spending’ our tax money on his vacation.
Wow must be nice, I haven’t been on vacation in over three years! Not because I I don’t have the time, being unemployed means you have more time on your hands. No this is due to being poor during the obummer depression.
My god, people need to wake up! I think I and others have sacrificed enough.
I lost my job on election day of 2008, and no I did not vote for obummer. I still found to vote on that day. The day we lost our way.
Shared sacrifice my ass. I don’t see Oblamea and the Wookie sacrificing anything.
Of course, if the President was a Republican the MSM would be up arms about all these Presidential vacations. I’m so tired of all this “progressive” hipocrisy and bullshit.
Good riddence, when he’s out of the public limelight the stock markets calm down. Everytime he opens his mouth he causes investor fear, or so it appears.
One
Bad
Ass
Mistake
America
“I, Poseidon, summon all toothed denizens of the deep to gather off the coast of the Vineyard next week. Oh, and if some Portuguese Men-of-War and Red Tide can also make it, that would be great.”
YEAH SURE…….
When it comes to curbing unemployment, President Obama “will not rest” until everyone looking for a job can find one, White House spokesman Jay Carney said Wednesday.
“And I’ve said since I took office that my administration will not rest until every American who is able and ready and willing to work can find a job… ”
SOONER OR LATER………IT’LL CATCH UP TO ZER0.
I wish I could afford (financially and time off work) just ONE vacation this year.
How is it the President can afford 40 of them in a year… and he has even more work responsibilities than me?
“…spend some time with his family…”
Doesn’t he spend his time in the WH with his family????
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‘And I don’t think Americans out there would begrudge that notion that the President would spend some time with his family’.. his family is right there in the WH with him.. how many working stiffs get to have their family where they work.. assuming he does any work and those are his kids which I don’t..
Remember when it was a big friggin deal if the president went to HIS OWN RANCH for some time off ???
Someone should dress up Like Nero & Show up to the Blue Heron Farm in Chilmark. It’s very easy to find…
West Tisbury / Chilmark Line Corner of South Rd. & Cobbs Hill Rd.
41* 22′ 31.81 N x 70* 40’46.75 W
To play several more holes of golf i supppose? I hope some bird steals all his golfballs and drops them in the water hazard