For Obama, no ordinary vacation

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By Anne E. Kornblut
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, January 1, 2010; 11:36 AM

KAILUA, Hawaii -- Before heading to a Wednesday luau, President Barack Obama did something much more somber, his aides said: he called CIA director Leon Panetta to discuss the deaths of seven agency officers in a suicide attack in Afghanistan.

On Thursday morning, before taking his family to a private viewing of the movie "Avatar 3-D," Obama called his counterterrorism and homeland security advisers for updates on an attempted airline attack a week earlier.

And on New Year's Eve, after more than five hours of golf, the president "cleared the decks" for work, aides said -- sequestering himself for several hours to study some preliminary assessments of intelligence failures in the airline case.

Senior administration officials said that Obama at no point considered cutting short his trip to attend to matters on the mainland, and they could not deny that Obama still had plenty of fun despite the unexpected crises. He played golf and basketball, went snorkeling and to the gym, and ate at his favorite Honolulu restaurant. His wife and children went to the beach, and his entire family spent time with both a group of Chicago friends who traveled to Hawaii with them and local Oahu residents who have known Obama since childhood.


But a normal vacation this was not.

After an early wave of criticism for the president's decision to decline comment for three full days on the attempted Christmas attack, his advisers spent the rest of the trip pursuing two competing goals: shielding the president from further scrutiny so he could enjoy his time off while proving that he was fully engaged in national affairs. During Obama's Thursday golf outing, his advisers released an official photograph made earlier in the day during his national security call, holding a phone with a concerned look on his face. Advisers described him as having achieved the ultimate work-life balance, shifting from national security commander to outdoor sportsman every day, all while catching up with some of his oldest friends in a place that holds deep meaning for him.

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Come on! POTUS has never been able to go on vacation as the majority of us view vacation. He is ALWAYS on the job, even before he take the oath. From the point that the electoral college declares the official winner of a presidential election, the president elect is on the job. If he is a first term president, he is busy learning the intimate details of any ongoing or potential crises so as to minimize the transition period. If it is his second term, he is busy continuing his policies and actions started during his first term.

There is not a GD thing Obama can do in DC that he cannot do from Hawaii. If he can relax a bit and have some fun between the wide variety of crisis meetings he has on a daily basis, more power to him. It might even let him make more calm and informed decisions. Frankly, as much as I detest Obama's political leanings and theories, I am also of the firm opinion he can actually do a BETTER job if he can have some personal and family fun between needed crisis decisions, than if he is doing photo-op hand shakes and stupid foreign and domestic dignitary meet-and-greets that occupy a president's time when he is in DC.

Criticize his decisions. Criticize his political philosophy. (he deserves it.) Shit, criticize the way his ears stick out. But it is stupid -as well as highly hypocritical considering Bushes tendency to be elsewhere- to criticize him for taking care of business while taking some time out for vacation type activities.
 
Good Luck said:
Come on! POTUS has never been able to go on vacation as the majority of us view vacation. He is ALWAYS on the job, even before he take the oath. From the point that the electoral college declares the official winner of a presidential election, the president elect is on the job. If he is a first term president, he is busy learning the intimate details of any ongoing or potential crises so as to minimize the transition period. If it is his second term, he is busy continuing his policies and actions started during his first term.

There is not a GD thing Obama can do in DC that he cannot do from Hawaii. If he can relax a bit and have some fun between the wide variety of crisis meetings he has on a daily basis, more power to him. It might even let him make more calm and informed decisions. Frankly, as much as I detest Obama's political leanings and theories, I am also of the firm opinion he can actually do a BETTER job if he can have some personal and family fun between needed crisis decisions, than if he is doing photo-op hand shakes and stupid foreign and domestic dignitary meet-and-greets that occupy a president's time when he is in DC.

Criticize his decisions. Criticize his political philosophy. (he deserves it.) Shit, criticize the way his ears stick out. But it is stupid -as well as highly hypocritical considering Bushes tendency to be elsewhere- to criticize him for taking care of business while taking some time out for vacation type activities.
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I didn't post this so much about the vacation, but the way the so called REPORTER reported on it..
 
Onceler said:
Are you really missing the irony here?
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you must have just learned this word this morning...because you're using it obsessively and its clear you don't know what it means....

there is no irony, only the left's hypocrisy regarding vacations...the president is on 24/7, no matter where he is
 
Yurt said:
you must have just learned this word this morning...because you're using it obsessively and its clear you don't know what it means....

there is no irony, only the left's hypocrisy regarding vacations...the president is on 24/7, no matter where he is
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LOL

I used it twice, and it's "obsessive." Maybe you don't know what THAT word means, hack?

Sorry, but the post is ironic. Good Luck caught it, and he's even on "your side."

But I know you adore meme and can't say anything bad about her...

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Onceler said:
LOL

I used it twice, and it's "obsessive." Maybe you don't know what THAT word means, hack?

Sorry, but the post is ironic. Good Luck caught it, and he's even on "your side."

But I know you adore meme and can't say anything bad about her...

:good4u:
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its like having discussion with a toddler....

you said her post #6 was irony (you directed quoted that post in mentioning your new favorite word: irony)....GL posted before that....post 6 had to do with the left's hypocrisy, but obviously you're an illiterate
 
Yurt said:
its like having discussion with a toddler....

you said her post #6 was irony (you directed quoted that post in mentioning your new favorite word: irony)....GL posted before that....post 6 had to do with the left's hypocrisy, but obviously you're an illiterate
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Wow! You seem really obsessed with this!

Why are you so obsessive?

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Onceler said:
LOL

I used it twice, and it's "obsessive." Maybe you don't know what THAT word means, hack?

Sorry, but the post is ironic. Good Luck caught it, and he's even on "your side."

But I know you adore meme and can't say anything bad about her...

:good4u:
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I said why I posted the article, you can ignore it all and continue on in your little game..I also posted about what the left was saying during the Bush years, and we know you will ignore that also to make yourself a winner of some strange thing...:palm:
 
And it is ironic, hack. She has been posting over & over again about Obama's vacations, and taking real issue w/ them.

But you love her too much to understand that.

What a friggin' bozo you are...
 
Onceler said:
And it is ironic, hack. She has been posting over & over again about Obama's vacations, and taking real issue w/ them.

But you love her too much to understand that.

What a friggin' bozo you are...
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man you are becoming another zippy..quite a nasty piece of work:palm:
 
This is so cool, LOL, stay away from the board for a bit then come back and see the dims and Libs whinning like school girls, LOL, took a year to bring y'all to your knees , my guess is another and y'all will see the light

And no this post isn't just aimed at this thread
 
Jeff said:
This is so cool, LOL, stay away from the board for a bit then come back and see the dims and Libs whinning like school girls, LOL, took a year to bring y'all to your knees , my guess is another and y'all will see the light

And no this post isn't just aimed at this thread
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That's good.

Because it's a thread where the OP - not a dim or a Lib - is whining about Obama taking a vacation.
 
meme said:
LOL, you've been reduced to nothing but a smart ass..sad thing to watch a Progressive withering and shriveling up like their party and President..
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So Onceler is nothing but a smart ass?

That still puts him two or three pegs above a dumbass like you, on the intelligence scale.
 
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