Exasperated lib columnist admonishes Obama

American Thinker ^ | August 13,2011 | Thomas Lifson

[Hojczyk]

I confess that I'm having great fun watching the liberals waking up to the fact that the image of President Obama they bought into was a fantasy, and underneath is an arrogant, cold, and incompetent executive, with no experience at all in running anything.

This morning brings Colbert King, the liberal Washington Post columnist, who take his first step down the path to a reality-based perception of The One. King displays a certain annoyance with Barack Obama, explaining to the president why it is so stupid for him to be going on vacation:

King goes on to list many other facilities and luxuries available to the president and his family. What's fascinating here is the indirect allusion to the parties, the hobnobbing with stars and athletes, the exuberant exploitation of their supreme position in the American status hierarchy. The Obamas take such pleasure in using to the utmost, all of the privileges and facilities made available to live large. The sheer number of parties they throw is astounding, though almost unmentioned in the liberal media, so far.

This is not the way a president should be spending his time. Not when, for the first time in U.S. history, the country's credit rating has been downgraded; when so many families are barely scraping by, many not knowing where the next mortgage or rent payment is coming from.

It is by now obvious to King and many others, that President Obama spends an awful lot of time in leisure activities and just isn't very good at running things. He is implying that things are going to hell because Obama is lazy, not spending enough time at it.

None of this is explicitly mentioned, of course. But the foreknowledge is out there for both King and his readers.

[Oiao]

Yet King will be first in line to re anoint O'SpendsALot in the next election cycle. The fruit does not rot far from the tree.

[JusPasenThru]

Not newsworthy. Now this would be newsworthy: Pelosi acknowledges Obama’s incompetence, throws support behind Palin.

[all the best]

“He is implying that things are going to hell because Obama is lazy, not spending enough time at it.”

If he spent any more time at it, the country would be East Germany by now. Be glad he has a lousy work ethic.

[Venturer]

I think Obama is paying $50,000 a day out of his pocket for his stay in Massachusetts. A ridiculous sum of money, when he just got through attacking Millionaires and Billionaires and those flying private jets. Especially since last year he had a special plane to fly his dog up.

$50,000 a day is a lot of mony to most Americans, but it is a paltry amount when you figure what it cost to fly him up there ,security, helkicopters,local police costs, communication experts, they all have to eat and sleep, it is a boon to the local hotels, I guess, but at what cost to Amrrica’s taxpayers.? It’s not like he hasn’t had other vacations this year and Golf outings,trips to Camp David,a special vacation for the Wookie, and Christmas in Hawaii is just around the corner. the Secret Service agents havent seen their wives in weeks as they trail around behind His Majesty.

TRILLIONS IN DEBT AND FOR OBMA IT’S PARTY TIME/

[driftless2]

The problem is the country would have been a lot better off if Obama had simply partied instead of inflicted his socialism on the country. A do-nothing president is far better than a do-Marxism president.

[MuttTheHoople]

I think Obama is paying $50,000 a day out of his our pocket for his stay in Massachusetts

Fixed it for you

[COUNTrecount]

$50,000 Per week is the figure quoted in many articles.

[dandiegirl]

I wish conservative commentators would remind people that Bush spent his vactions on his OWN property. He wasn’t costing the taxpayers 50k a day to stay at ultra luxury homes and hotels with massive restaurant bills and sightseeing tours for the wife and her entourage. It’s quite different. I would love to go to Camp David personally. Sounds like a really neat place.

[nascarnation]

Pelosi acknowledges Obama’s incompetence, throws support behind Palin.

This could only happen if we could somehow cut off her supply of MDMA.

[nascarnation]

I think while Baraq & MooseChelle party, ValJ is doing the dirty work.

[corlorde]

Yeah, the rumor is, Obumbles doesn’t care much for Camp David.

[dandiegirl]

If he’s spending 50k/day of his own money, it won’t be long before he is as broke as those rappers and one-time pro athletes. Too much bling will break ya pretty fast.

[FredZarguna]

I agree wholeheartedly. Every golf outing is a brief respite for the Republic. Play through, Mr. Pres(id)ent! And have another round on me.

[dennisw]

Colbert I. King

Opinion Writer Washinton Post

It’s no time for a presidential vacation

By Colbert I. King, Published: August 12

Is there anyone in the White House with nerve enough to tell Barack Obama that Martha’s Vineyard is the last place on earth that the president of the United States should find himself next week?

Don’t get me wrong. I don’t begrudge the chief executive a little time off from the Oval Office.

But to be leaving town to spend 10 days luxuriating in an affluent, New England summer town when millions of Americans can’t find work? To fly off to the Vineyard when the public is losing faith in Washington’s ability to fix the nation’s economic problems, and with people anxious about their futures?

What is he thinking? It’s not as if the Obama family is living in deprivation in Washington.

Without leaving the White House grounds, they have access to five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a bowling alley, a swimming pool, a jogging trail, a putting green and a movie theater that shows first-run films on demand. That’s hardly roughing it.

And if the president ever feels the need to get away, let’s say to seek a little solitude and tranquility beyond the confines of hot and humid Washington, the American taxpayers have thoughtfully provided a secluded country residence for the first family’s exclusive use in Maryland’s Catoctin Mountain Park. It’s called Camp David. A hardship post it is not.

Camp David comes equipped with 24-hour guard service, including fighter jets, to keep gawkers and riff-raff out of sight. For presidential enjoyment, Camp David’s wooded mountaintop has a swimming pool, a sauna, tennis courts, a bowling alley, a trout stream and movie facilities, again with first-run features on demand.

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[dandiegirl]

Yeah, the rumor is, Obumbles doesn’t care much for Camp David.

I wonder why? Too outdoorsy for him. Maybe too many bugs for the little ones and the moose and her mother.

[freekitty]

Doesn’t King know vacation is Obama’s job.

[Windflier]

Loved this comment at the source article:

“As far as I’m concerned, he can go wherever and stay there forever.”

[Political Junkie Too]

Without leaving the White House grounds, they have access to five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a bowling alley, a swimming pool, a jogging trail, a putting green and a movie theater that shows first-run films on demand. That's hardly roughing it.

Colbert King is missing the point.

Obama doesn't go to Martha's Vineyard to vacation in August, he goes there to get away from the press while he celebrates Ramadan.

He's been doing it every year since he became president.

-PJ

[TomGuy]

How dare he disparage the Vacationer-in-Chief!!!