Posted on 02/17/2009 10:33:58 AM PST by mojitojoe
Who would have thought that a CEO position would be tiring? And not just any CEO but the President of the United States, the leader of the free world, the Commander in Chief and the Messiah.
Apparently Barack Obama had no idea that all of that hard work would actually be just that -- hard work. I suppose he thought the job of POTUS would be just as much fun as the two years he spent on the campaign trail. He must have been under the illusion that the citizens of this great country would swoon over his tax cheating choices for cabinet members and staff, and that the kool-aid buzz evident during the campaign would keep the media brainwashed for the four years of his term.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
"'We were just tired of being in the White House,' the president candidly told the gleeful second-graders at Capital City Public Charter School."
"'We got out! They let us out!' Mrs. Obama said as the kids and their teachers laughed."
I have to say, I'm not laughing. This was a cute concept in the movie Dave when Kevin Kline and Sigourney Weaver snuck out of the White House one night for some ice cream. But Kevin Kline wasn't actually the President (although he certainly acted more Presidential than Obama has exhibited over the past several weeks) and Dave was just a movie.
http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/02/the_audacity_of_the_obamas.html
I heard two MSNBC talking heads cite both of those laughable movies as ‘their favorites’ and ‘why can’t Obama do it like they did!’ just last week.
Seems to me like George Bush did the same thing early in his term (remember Sept. 11?). Maybe he didn’t make the same comment, but this is just standard photo op stuff.
I don’t think anyone is that bothered by him going to see kids, but Sept. 11 was eight months into his term. When someone comes into office there is SO much to do, just to get into the groove of BEING president day to day, and this guy is RUNNING from the job, literally.
Bush was out around the country trying to sell his education reforms, he wasn’t trying to escape any pressure.
W at least waited until he had been on the job for months rather than weeks.
I guess Bambi thought presidenting would be easy...
Oh yeah, September 11 was just two weeks into his term. I knos that algore tried to delay W's transition into his elected role as POTUS a long time, but he didn't delay it that much. And W never used the "gotta get away" excuse for going out on any of his public appearances.
“And W never used the “gotta get away” excuse for going out on any of his public appearances.”
You do know the difference between joking and being serious, don’t you? Go after Obama for the serious stuff, not this piddling crap.
But my suspicion, based on Obama’s behavior to date, is that Obama does not really plan on working hard at all — he plans on delegating. And what could prove this hypothesis better than the way in which he delegated possibly the most important legislation of his administration to the devices of Nancy Pelosi. While Nancy and her money hungry colleagues toiled day and night adding more and more pork to the spending bill, the Obama’s were taking a break from the rigors of just three weeks in the White House to vacation at Camp David.
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What you are seeing, IMHO, are the actions of an empty, inexperienced ideologue with a specific socialist agenda that does not really have much to do with any normal processes one would expect from interation between a concerned Congress and Presidency. There does not appear to be any concern about America’s fright and gross reservations about his SPENDING BILL of massive pork and political paybacks. If the bill really was focused on stimulating our capitalist economy, we would all see it, know it, and be much more confident about its chances and actual impact.
Such is not the case as most already know. That is why Wall Street is in the tank today.
Good point - well taken!!!
President Who?
The Current President assumed that being President was like being a King or Caliphate. A figurehead of State who goes around in an armored car waving at adoring fans.
Being President will cause gray hair. Presidency is made up of long nights and early mornings reading newspapers, books, articles to gather the best information to run (not rule) a Country.
The Current President didn’t want the responsibility, just the glamor. The glamor fades and the responsibility becomes burdensome.
He always has an option to show his long form birth certificate and mea culpa himself back to Chicago. However I doubt his handlers would allow him to use that method.
I’ve emailed the Republican leaders in the House and Senate that they have the same option available to them whenever they decide the have had enough of his destructive behavior.
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