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Another break for Obama Burton defends new vacation
politico.com ^ | August 27, 2009 | By POLITICO STAFF

Posted on 08/27/2009 12:01:35 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid!

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, September 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."

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To: BenLurkin

I’ve been lookin for that pic. I had made an animated gif with flapping ears, but I lost the darn thing.This one will be perfect...


21 posted on 08/27/2009 12:22:48 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

“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.”

Hope the Kennedys enjoy the joking and quipping the death in their family has brought forth from the White House.


22 posted on 08/27/2009 12:22:57 PM PDT by John W
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To: TRY ONE

Exactly.


23 posted on 08/27/2009 12:23:11 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
"The holiest day of Ramadan is http://www.when-is.com/lailat-al-kadr-2009.asp Sept 15th this year?
What is the practice of this day, I wonder

The have family get togethers for feasting and thighing of small children I believe.

24 posted on 08/27/2009 12:25:34 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: kabar

The Obamas have not been observing the fast, what with their excursions to famous ice cream parlors and such.


25 posted on 08/27/2009 12:26:49 PM PDT by Palladin (Obamacare=Emanuelcare=Mengelecare!)
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To: nikos1121

“I suspect Obama will not do much of anything except relax and meditate for the next four weeks in honor of Ramadan....”

He seems true to his previous statements...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XKGdkqfBICw


26 posted on 08/27/2009 12:27:21 PM PDT by Gabrial (ObamaCare: The efficiency of the Post Office, the compassion of the IRS, the costs of the Pentagon)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

George Soros is the real president anyway. Zero is just his figurehead.


27 posted on 08/27/2009 12:28:23 PM PDT by Campion ("President Barack Obama" is an anagram for "An Arab-backed Imposter")
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
The Islamic holiday of Eid ul-Fitr (Arabic: عيد الفطر‎) marks the end of the fasting period of Ramadan and the first day of the following month, after another new moon has been sighted. The Eid falls after 29 or 30 days of fasting, per the lunar sighting. Eid ul-Fitr means the Festival of Breaking the Fast; a special celebration is made. Food is donated to the poor (‘Zakat al-Fitr’), everyone puts on their best, usually new, clothes, and communal prayers are held in the early morning, followed by feasting and visiting relatives and friends. The prayer is two rakaahs only, and it is optional (sunat) prayer as opposed to the compulsory five daily prayers.

Laylat al-Qadr (Arabic: لیلة القدر‎) (also known as Shab-e-Qadr), basically the Night of Decree or Night of Measures, is the anniversary of two very important dates in Islam that occurred in the month of Ramadan. It is the anniversary of the night Muslims believe the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad. Muslims believe also that this night is when their fate in the following year is decided and hence pray for God all night long and pray for mercy and salvation. This practice is called Ehyaa (basically meaning "revival").

28 posted on 08/27/2009 12:31:19 PM PDT by kabar
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To: Campion
He is the money man. There's no doubt he getting everything he wants, including all our money.
29 posted on 08/27/2009 12:31:51 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: Palladin

They are not Muslims.


30 posted on 08/27/2009 12:31:57 PM PDT by kabar
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
As obsessed Zippy and the ‘Rats are with polling, they probably know he gets a bump in the polls when he's out of town. Maybe it's a reverse of the old Rose Garden Strategy. Instead of hanging out around the rose garden, hightail it out of town.

ObamAlinsky will probably get another nudge up in the polls if he's seen blubbering at Kennedy's memorial service, or wherever it is he is supposed to set up his teleprompters (is that tacky or what, having teleprompters at a funeral?). So maybe he should look for more funerals to crash and other places to go on vacation. He might get back up to where he was in the polls just after inauguration, if all he does is vacation and go to funerals.

31 posted on 08/27/2009 12:33:18 PM PDT by chimera
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

I am all for Obama taking as many vacations as possble

A 3.5 year long one would be perfect.


32 posted on 08/27/2009 12:34:30 PM PDT by Names Ash Housewares
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To: kabar
What is your opinion of this? He is a practicing Muslim. So why can't the WH just say 'Obama is taking time off to practice Ramadan"? They admitted he had Muslim roots. Have they admitted he is a muslim?

Mr. Obama recalled the opening lines of the Arabic call to prayer, reciting them with a first-rate accent. In a remark that seemed delightfully uncalculated (it’ll give Alabama voters heart attacks), Mr. Obama described the call to prayer as “one of the prettiest sounds on Earth at sunset.”

33 posted on 08/27/2009 12:34:38 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: Palladin

Yeah it was also reported that they had hamburgers last week.

Is he a cheating,practicing muslim?


34 posted on 08/27/2009 12:36:30 PM PDT by Dubya-M-DeesWent2SyriaStupid! (Obama, the first ever 3 in a half year, lame duck TOTUS)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

0bama is taking all of this time off while the country burns??

/sarcasm

Isn’t that what they said whenever Bush went to his ranch?


35 posted on 08/27/2009 12:36:34 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Liberals have no integrity, character, or shame.)
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To: kabar
"It is the anniversary of the night Muslims believe the first verses of the Qur'an were revealed to the Islamic prophet Muhammad."

yep. This earth shattering, birth of Islam day begins with an illiterate epileptic, -who is in a cave practicing his pagan rock god worshiping ritual- being beat up and threatened by a scary "angel" and told to "read" an imaginary book.

The birth of Islam begins with a nonsensical [Qur'an 96:1]""Read in the name of your Lord who created man out of clots of congealed blood. Read, for your Lord is the most generous. He who taught the use of the pen that man might be taught that which he did not know."

Brilliant.The moment of moments: the birth of Islam. An unnamed spirit, representing an unidentified entity, reveals itself to Muhammad, and all we get is this.

36 posted on 08/27/2009 12:41:14 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: kabar

Why would an all-knowing deity ask an illiterate man to read? Why does the spirit tell us that man was created from blood clots when it’s not true? If this spirit “taught by the pen what men did not know,” where are those words? And why digress to an oral recital when written testimony is superior? Why gloat, saying he’s generous - in what way and to whom? But the real question is: if this spirit “taught by the pen what men did not know,” where are those words?


37 posted on 08/27/2009 12:42:01 PM PDT by Nathan Zachary
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

No surprise the chickenshit lying jive turkey, is hiding.


38 posted on 08/27/2009 12:42:42 PM PDT by DGHoodini (Iran Azadi!)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives
Burton quipped that the president needs a "break from his vacation."
Hardy har-har. Moron.
39 posted on 08/27/2009 12:43:00 PM PDT by Condor51 (The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits)
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To: NoObamaFightForConservatives

Gee, I never realized that being a marxist tyrant was such hard work!


40 posted on 08/27/2009 12:43:37 PM PDT by DustyMoment (FloriDUH - proud inventors of pregnant/hanging chads and judicide!!)
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