Sunday, January 5, 2014

Vacationing Obama Derides Republicans for Vacationing

A busy day followed by a late high school wrestling meet  finds me home much later than usual, so my comments will be very brief.

Far more important that Obama's remarks is the fact that in our current societal climate he knows that he can say virtually anything that he wants with the comforting knowledge that neither the media nor a huge subset of American citizens will call him out for his outrageous behavior. 

From what I understand, it was not only legislators from one political party that took time off for the Christmas break either. 

There are two diametrically opposed cultures in the United States, and it is time for the two to have what amounts to a political  divorce.

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2014/01/04/president-obama-while-on-hawaii-vacation-lambastes-gop-who-went-home-for-the-holidays-and-abandoned-less-fortunate/

"While President Barack Obama continued what the New York Times* called a “real and rare vacation in Hawaii,” he used his Weekly Address to accuse Republicans in Congress of going home for the holidays while less-fortunate Americans suffer. 

*[Again the New York Times shows that it has abandoned any show of impartiality] 

'Just a few days after Christmas, more than one million of our fellow Americans lost a vital economic lifeline – the temporary insurance that helps folks make ends meet while they look for a job.Republicans in Congress went home for the holidays and let that lifeline expire. And for many of their constituents who are unemployed through no fault of their own, that decision will leave them with no income at all.

We make this promise to one another because it makes a difference to a mother who needs help feeding her kids while she’s looking for work; to a father who needs help paying the rent while learning the skills to get a new and better job. And denying families that security is just plain cruel. We’re a better country than that. We don’t abandon our fellow Americans when times get tough – we keep the faith with them until they start that new job.'

While the GOP was home for the holidays, how did Obama spend some of his two-week trip across the Pacific? The Times described a bit of it:

He played golf eight out of 14 days. And he and the first lady, Michelle Obama, stepped out for dinner at a few of their favorite restaurants: Alan Wong’s, Morimoto Waikiki (twice!) and Nobu Waikiki......"


This jaunt cost us 4 million dollars.

http://washingtonexaminer.com/obamas-17-day-trip-to-hawaii-costs-taxpayers-4m/article/2540987
"......The vacation will cost taxpayers an estimated $4 million and fill the sleepy town of Kailua and its miles of beautiful beaches with street barricades and security personnel protecting the Obamas’ rented vacation home......"


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