a guy's gotta do what he's good at...
Posted on 03/07/2014 4:07:49 PM PST by Doogle
The White House brushed off concerns Friday that, with the crisis in Crimea intensifying, now might not be the best time for President Obama -- and his vice president -- to go on vacation.
The travel schedules of both the president and Vice President Biden have come under scrutiny, given the rapidly changing situation in Ukraine. Obama, already in Florida to talk about education, was planning to spend some family time this weekend in Key Largo, Fla., where he arrived late in the day. Biden, meanwhile, will be in the Virgin Islands.
Despite some apparent discussion over cutting the president's trip short, White House spokesman Josh Earnest indicated the president would be able to handle the crisis from out of the office.
"The president over the course of a very busy week has maintained his schedule and his ability to monitor ongoing events in Ukraine. I would anticipate that he'll do the same thing this weekend," Earnest said. "And the fact of the matter is what the president is doing this weekend in Florida is essentially what the president will be doing if he stayed back at the White House. It's just that the weather will be a little warmer."
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Why not, they wouldn’t do anything anyway. ;-)
a guy's gotta do what he's good at...
‘the president would be able to handle the crisis from out of the office’
By letting everyone else do the heavy lifting and then showing up to take credit if there is a good outcome. Bad outcome? Well then, it is obviously everyone else’s fault!
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FREEPER POST Biden's son was once a lobbyist who made $1.8 million. He said it was legal because, when he had to lobby his dad, he sent someone else from the office. When Biden ran for VP, they had him quit the lobby gig and he went to work as a rookie broker at a hedge fund for $1.2 million.
Then Biden's son and brother launched a take-over of the hedge fund and it all gets murky after that. We always hear that Biden is broke but there is apparently more to it than that. Harry Reid has the same deal; his sons are “lobbyists”. You hire them if you want to talk to their dad.
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REFERENCE Biden's son Hunter Biden was previously a top official at PARADIGM Global Advisors, a hedge-fund holding company founded with Vice President Biden’s brother, James, and marketed by convicted finance fraudster Allen Stanford. As Paradigm chairman, Hunter Biden oversaw half a billion dollars of client money invested in hedge funds while remaining a lobbyist. Cooper chipped in $2 million for the ill-fated venture, which went down in flames amid nasty fraud lawsuits." (NOTE Stanford is now in jail but the Biden's got off scot-free.)
"Hi there, Americans. Obama put me in charge of the trillion dollar stimulus.
My son and brother are gonna help me disperse the money. "
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Offshore Fraudster had links to offshore fund run by VP Biden's relatives
Reuters on Yahoo | 2/23/09 | BY Ajay Kamalakaran
(Reuters) – A fund of offshore hedge funds run by two members of VP Joe Biden's family was marketed exclusively by offshore firms controlled by Texas financier Allen Stanford, charged by regulators with an $8 billion fraud, the Wall Street Journal said.
The Bidens $50 million fund was jointly branded between the Bidens' Paradigm Global Advisors LLC and the offshore Stanford Financial Group entity headquartered in Antigua, and was known as the Paradigm Stanford Capital Management Core Alternative Fund, the paper said. Stanford-related offshore companies marketed the Biden fund to investors and also invested about $2.7 million of their own money in the fund, the paper said, citing a lawyer for Paradigm.
Paradigm Global Advisors is owned through a holding company by the vice president Biden's son, Hunter, and Joe Biden's brother, James, according to the WSJ. Paradigm's attorney, Marc LoPresti, who represents Hunter Biden and James Biden, as well as Paradigm, told the paper he did not know which Stanford entity invested the roughly $2.7 million. (Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
NOTE A lawyer for Hunter Biden and James Biden told reporters the Bidens NEVER met or communicated with Stanford. (/snicker)
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Biden snicks and snarks about the "one percenters"---but he doesn't refuse their money. Read on.
NY POST PAGE SIX---Obama still has some friends in investment banking. Chad Leat, managing director and chairman of Alternative Asset Group — Investment Banking at Citigroup Inc, is hosting a $10,000-a-plate dinner for Vice President Joe Biden on Aug. 24 at his home, The Barnyard in Bridgehampton. Leat is described in Hamptons Cottages and Gardens as a “banker, dedicated equestrian and imaginative host,” with an “elegant, but hip” home. On the table for discussion will undoubtedly be the economy and jobs. Probably not up for discussion will be that in 2008 Citigroup got a $45 billion government bailout in two installments .
SOURCEhttp://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/bank_on_biden_ENPOT9A8JA2WkAzbYoNCgI#ixzz21ujanwHC
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NY POST PAGE SIX--- Nathan Lane will host an Obama fund-raiser attendedby Joe Joe Biden at the Bridgehampton home of Ellen Chesler and Matthew Mallow. The Aug. 24 event, called "East End for Obama," will feature a performance by singer James Taylor. Hosts include actress Julianne Moore, “Sopranos” star Edie Falco and Jane Holzer. This is one of the few Obama fund-raisers in the Hamptons, Chesler bragged and e-mailed media that the event “began in the arts community out East but has morphed into what we understand will be the major Obama campaign event this summer in the Hamptons.” Tickets range from $500 to $10,000 to join the host committee and get a photo with Biden
SOURCEhttp://www.nypost.com/p/pagesix/new_odd_couple_NauGUHaN4AmdoDKr60CluM#ixzz21uknQDmI
Putin should just sit at his office headquarters or one of his Dachas and wait. Have the President on a monitor. As soon as Obama arrives, give him a day or two, then BAM! There goes Estonia and most of Ukrainia. I do not root for the success of a communist dictator; Putin. In my opinion, it will take more obvious nation building by the Russians before Obama allows himself to take this ‘Russian Reverse Spring” as a serious problem with ready solutions. We don’t need to send any troops into the Ukraine. We do need to send some to boardering countries though. Otherwise more will conclude that NATO = Nothing, and is all for a poorly exucuted routine called Leading From Behind.
Things are going to get really dicey over the next 18 months.
Israel, South Korea, Japan, and even other former parts of the Soviet Union all are at risk as long as these degenerate vacation taking clowns are in power.
Means they already decided to cede the Crimea, the deal’s done.
Now back to shoving Homosexuality down America’s throat, pardon the expression...
the fact of the matter is what the president is doing this weekend in Florida is essentially what the president will be doing if he stayed back at the White House.
Actually a rather damning statement, from my view.
They’re in it for the perks....period!
The only people I despise on this earth more than these two are the aholes who elected them.
It’s cool, they’re both Marxists too.
Pray America wakes up
but but but, they got 3 or 4 Odungophones
Gonna be far from DC when Vlad drops The Big One.
One of the duties of a Vice President is to mind the store when the President is away. Who knows what might happen in this ever-exploding world when Obama and Biden are both off sunning themselves at the same time in far-away places?
Who will serve as acting president if a crisis erupts? Valerie Jarrett?
If Vladimir Putin wants to conquer the world, he should quickly move on from his victory in the Crimea to taking the Ukraine and then send a battleship down the Potomac to Washington,DC, before Barack and Joe return from their trips.
...they don’t trust him with his marbles, never mind the store
John Fraud is perfectly capable of screwing the pooch without them.
“Who will serve as acting president if a crisis erupts?”
The orange menace is probably blowing a 0.3 by this time.
“The only people I despise on this earth more than these two are the aholes who elected them.”
You mean like the conservatives who stayed home or wouldn’t vote for the Republican candidate?
Can you imagine how the bad news would be spreading if they were Republicans?
Think back to George W. Bush on 9/11
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