Posted on 12/29/2009 4:52:31 AM PST by IbJensen
Washington (AP) - After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency -- the early decisions to bail out the nation's banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.
Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it's no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.
Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an "extraordinary year."
"You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people," he said in an interview with CBS News last month. "Absolutely that weighs on me."
That weight was particularly striking during the president's exhaustive, three-month review of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan.
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>You know, I hesitated to say a lot about this during the campaign because I really thought maybe it wasn’t fair. That maybe, finally, when he got to be President, this would be a job big enough to engage and hold Barack Obama’s sustained interest, because really, is there a bigger job out here?<
Carol, Carol, Carol. Did you ever maybe, just maybe, come to the conclusion that the man wasn’t capable of doing the work involved in heading the Harvard Law Review? Maybe, just maybe, you silly liberals were so inebriated with political correctness that you installed a complete slacker into the position on the sole fact that he was, er, a member of your preferred color?
Carol, I humbly suggest you go to the nearest public library and read The Peter Principle. I hope there aren’t too many words in it too big for you.
LOL! Good one.
I was hopin’ you would like it.
;)
He’s tired, much like those skinny-fat kids in the gym that have to do 10 pushups get tired.
If George Bush had said he was tired after 9-11, can you imagine the furor? Talk about a tough first year!
Funny, love the 3 AM call.
Glad you giggled. So did I.
Maybe I’m in the minority, but I’m just sittin’ here.
Waiting...
Just waiting for the orders to “dispatch:”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-G2n91wKtY&feature=player_embedded
I’m sure.
Julie Pace
After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.Who could blame him?
I hereby nominate Julie Pace for the:
'Journalistic Fellatio Of The Year Award'.The prize is, Industrial Strength Kneepads and a box of Lip Balm.
Hey, it is not easy destroying a country as great as the USA. Nationalizing banks, car companies, and the health care system; while replacing elected officals with appointed czars. I mean it is tiresome to have to stop and let every TV and news journalist lick your boots everytime you walk out doors.
Too much golf
So, the AP and 0boobama himself admit he can’t handle the job.
In the article:
“He not only hated being away from his family for long stretches . . .
“Most importantly, Obama is living with his family full-time for the first time in his political career.”
An apparent - and interesting - contradiction in this episode of the mythology of BO
+1
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