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Presidential vacations: What a difference a President makes
This should give you a good Friday evening chuckle:
After a mid-August trip to America’s national parks and a weeklong vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, President Obama plans …
… to take a little more time away from the office next week.
Obama will head to Camp David on Wednesday, Sept. 2, and stay through the weekend, White House spokesman Bill Burton told reporters in a Thursday briefing.
Joking that it may have been “wishful thinking” to suggest Obama’s current trip out of Washington would coincide with a news-free week, Burton quipped that the president needs a “break from his vacation.”
For the second time in just a few days, however, the deputy press secretary emphasized that Obama hasn’t disengaged from his responsibilities.
“When you’re president, you’ve always got that job,” Burton said.
On Monday, Burton pointed to former President George W. Bush’s vacation habits to defend scattered criticism of Obama’s August schedule.
“As I recall, the previous president [took] quite a bit of vacation himself, and I don’t think anyone bemoaned that,” Burton said.
Look, I really don’t care if Obama wants to take a “second vacation” – Burton’s right about one thing: A President never really is on “vacation.” However, his comment about not thinking anyone “bemoaned” Bush’s vacations? Um … was he asleep for the last eight years?
And speaking of funny, my hat is off to Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) – another strong conservative woman who liberals hate – and her response to an ObamaCare supporter at a town hall meeting she hosted last night:
A good share of the crowd applauded her repeatedly during the 90-minute meeting. They cheered when she responded to a man interrupting her as she described babies being born in the hallways of overcrowded British hospitals.
“I’ll tell you what, I’ve given birth here probably more times than you, sir,” Bachmann said. “I’ve given birth in the Stillwater hospital and I’ll tell you it is the finest care you could ever receive.”
Here’s the video:
Zing! 
She’s gonna have a tough re-election fight next year, thanks to the left’s constant demonization of her. She, like Palin, is another strong conservative woman who the left loves to hate. If you’d like to help her out in her bid for re-election, go here. To read more about this amazing woman, click here. I didn’t know that, in addition to having five kids, she and her husband had also fostered 23 kids. She is a strong proponent of foster care and adoption. She and her husband also both operate a small mental health care clinic. God bless ‘em.
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I love hearing her comments—this lady has her act together and spouts no PC.
The difference between a liberal and a conservative:
A liberal states what he would assume to be a better world and tells what has to be destroyed in order to make it work, all because he has conceived of it.
A conservative sees a problem, looks at previous attempts to find solutions to the problem, figures out what will really work in the real world and goes about getting it done.
That’s why liberals can look at the disasters that are health care in Canada, Great Britain, nearly all of Europe, Cuba, etc., and say it will be different this time.
They are the ones who can beat their heads against a wall one hundred times and it hurts one hundred times, then expect a different result the one hundred first time.
Michele Bachmann is truly magnificent… I love her nearly as much as Sarah Palin. She’s spearheading a lot of efforts that are driving the Democrats nuts.
Concerning Barack’s “vacation woes,” did he forget that he, Michelle, the kids, and the Secret Service shut down the Grand Canyon to the public just two weeks ago for 7 hours? How is that NOT a vacation? Don’t think he got much “presidential work” done while there, but maybe I’m just not understanding how “hard it is” to be president. Crikey, I LIVE in Arizona and my kids have never been to the Grand Canyon – I’ve only been there twice in my life. And that’s because for us to travel up there from the Phoenix area, stay one day and one night, eat 3 meals a day at restaurants, then drive all the way home, would be a PRICEY VACATION for us on our limited budget. As it is for most folks whose jobs aren’t that of POTUS.
Snort.
Being the leader of the greatest nation on earth demands some personal sacrifices.
Kudos on that one, Carlos… great humor on a Friday afternoon starts the weekend off on a great note. I bow to you…
So Bush was a callous, out of touch moron wasting time in Crawford. Obama really deserves the time off, and it isn’t really time off because he’s working all the time anyway.
And who couldn’t have seen this coming? Remember how grossly offensive Bush’s “swagger” was, although he characterized it as “walking?” So it was with no surprise at all when a few months back I read glowing accounts of Obama’s “swagga,” which was a wonderfully admirable thing which brought great credit to this nation.
Again, calling them whores is an insult to prostitutes.
That about sums it up, Steve
This woman is terrific! Like Palin, she is a leader with an understanding of real Americans.
Another thing: Bush shed tears for America. Shed tears for lives lost, for troops lost. You will never see OJoker shed tears for America. For himself, perhaps, but no one else.
Thank you, CF. Like everyone, I appreciate notice.
In that vein, thank you, ST, for your blog. I miss it when I’m not able to get to it daily.
And Steve, try to think of one physical attribute of GW that was not ridiculed (starting with caricatures of him with Dumbo ears) by the MSM, yet those same hypocritical jerks praise the exact same attributes in Duh-1 (starting with an incredibly poor speaking ability without TOTUS.) His ears, his swagger, his smirk – all positives for His Hollowness, laughable in GW.
What pigs the people are in the MSM, what smug pigs.
Great observations. And thanks for the video. Michele Bachmann gets my “girls just wanna have fun” juices flowing.
But, you guys! The Democrats are the ones all for women’s rights, remember? Funny how that doesn’t apply when the woman is a conservative who speaks the unabridged, make-believe truth.
Oh and on His Hollowness taking all these vacations? He is working so hard to destroy the nation he needs a friggin’ break every now and then. Leave the poor man alone.
Being so used to 4 hour work days as a community activist, he’s still trying to adjust to the reality that most Americans who work face, and that’s that the day begins early and lasts late.
Compared to what it was even a century ago, even that is a slacker’s workday. And if one polled the small business owners in this country, I’m sure a lot of them would be happy to see a 60-hour week, if the guvmint didn’t steal most of it.