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B-ing-O!
(His speech -- "You won't have B-O to kick around any more.")
Posted on 08/13/2014 9:24:12 PM PDT by upchuck
President Obama won't make any major announcements on immigration reform during his secretive mid-vacation trip back to Washington next week, the White House said Wednesday.
The president is expected to return to the White House on Sunday, but officials won't say why Obama is taking the unusual, and costly, trip back to Washington. He's expected to return to Martha's Vineyard, where he's been vacationing, on Tuesday.
Speculation has circled around whether Obama might make an announcement of executive actions he's taking on immigration reform, or a surprise visit from a foreign leader.
But the White House is "not anticipating a major announcement on immigration when the president is in Washington," spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters traveling with Obama in Massachusetts.
Schultz did say that Obama will be meeting with Vice President Biden while he's back in Washington. And Obama will be without both press secretary Josh Earnest, who is out on paternity leave, and Schultz, Earnest's top deputy, while in the nation's capital.
"Eric Schultz is staying," the spokesman quipped, dipping into the third person.
Adding more mystery to the topic, Schultz said the administration did not "anticipate any major significant news developments out of Washington those few days."
But if the president is only coming back to meet with staff face-to-face, it could invite questions about wasting taxpayer dollars.
According to Air Force documents obtained Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, the roundtrip travel expenses for the president's 2013 vacation to Martha's Vineyard totaled $1,164,268.
A return to Washington merely to meet with staff would also seem to undercut assurances offered by the White House that the president is fully operational, even when vacationing away from the capital.
Asked about partisan criticism of the vacation last Friday, Schultz noted Obama "travels with a wide array of communications equipment, and we also travel with a staff that allows us to have robust operational capabilities."
The Nobel committee called. They want their trophy back.
“I dont get mad about these guys going on vacation. “
Normally we shouldn’t be mad, but consider how lavish the Obama’s are with the treasury? Their vacations are over the top. Bush went to his ranch in Texas where he had an office. This dweeb goes on golfing weekends at $2 million.
http://obamaclarifier.blogspot.com
He forgot his 9 iron.
oh, *that* Washington..
they always close I90 and 520 bridges when he comes to Seattle.
Val needs signatures. This beeotch is not dumb. She is running this WH right now.
thank you for the booty. Mighty decent of you.
Maybe Obama plans to resign. (And then I woke up)
vaudine
I figure it’s all about the “optics” and that only matters because of the elections in November. Otherwise he’d just stay on vacation.
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B-ing-O!
(His speech -- "You won't have B-O to kick around any more.")
At first I thought it was just to spend more money, but then after reading through the latest posts it seems the French Prime Minister said “’When people are dying, you must come back from vacation’: French FM seems to slam Obama”
Thread:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3192623/posts
That’s it! Obama (0) is flying back to DC to take a call from the French Prime Minister (FPM):
FPM: “C’est va, Mr. President.”
0 — “OK, I’m back from vacation ... now what?”
misplaced his balls
I get it. He’s the president. ....but in these times isn’t Camp David good enough?
My dream too. *sigh* Great while it lasted.
I think the Obungler hates white people, so his lavish vacations are a way to stick it to the (white) "man." Out on the golf course, he gets his time away from the wookie.
“Even Rachel Maddow is calling him out on MSNBC, right now.”
if you can take her for more then thirty seconds, you’re a better man than I.
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