Mansion House Inn porch---Obama staff rented every room. Best view for Hurricane Irene.
Posted on 08/25/2011 6:44:32 AM PDT by RobinMasters
VINEYARD HAVEN - When President Obama took his first trip to Martha’s Vineyard after taking office, the excitement among locals here was palpable, from the signs of support strung across shop windows and front porches to a full-page newspaper ad taken out by 125 Vineyard grandmothers in support of his health care plan.
This week, with the jobless rate stuck above 9 percent and the president’s nationwide approval rating at its lowest level, the Vineyard’s broad allegiance shows cracks, leaving some islanders with a more textured, even tormented feeling about the president.
“I just have to say I feel really uncomfortable, because I love loving him,’’ said Leslie Pearlson, a real estate broker on the island.
At the core of islanders’ misgivings is the shaky local economy. Although the Vineyard is sometimes depicted as a playground for the rich and famous, the numbers tell another side of the story.
Empty storefronts dot main streets in Vineyard Haven, Edgartown, and elsewhere. According to the island’s Chamber of Commerce, at least one member of nearly every Vineyard household is dependent on summer business, which softened during the recession and still has not recovered.
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What is the jobless rate on The Island?
Leslie, you pathetic piece of stool, you are more enamored with an image, actually a mirage, than you are interested in using your intellect. People like this make me want to throw up.
Perhaps the Vineyard could use some Section 8 housing and a plan to tap into the strength of diversity. Much too white there.
What’s going to happen in about 36 hours when it is likely the big evacuation on Matha’s Vinyud from Hurricane Irene will have to be underway? It’s one thing to evacuate on interstate highways, something else to do it by plane and ferry.
Isn’t this a 10-day vacation? Which takes Obummer to next week Tuesday? They really don’t need extra traffic jams. The best thing is if Obama would leave this afternoon and finish the vaca somewhere else, ....How about rural Montana? Show the kids some buffalo. Or the Bushes may have some room at Crawford.
Mansion House Inn porch---Obama staff rented every room. Best view for Hurricane Irene.
Professor You Lie, of the Chicago School of Bureaucratic Socialism, must “feel” a lot of hostility towards Bush when he sees all the empty storefronts.
Hmmm - - maybe Bush wasn’t the one who made You Lie destroy 4 Trillion dollars? Maybe he might take a lesson from Flip Wilson : “ The Devil made me do it! “
My heart bleeds.
Most of these people have no clue where prosperity comes from, or where Obama and his ilk have gone wrong. They think that their problems stem from his not having “done” enough.
What a stupid cow. You love him, you *own* him.
Too many rich whites there. and they don’t have the rioting that diverse rich areas have, so they are being deprived of that experience as well.
How are the ice cream stores doing?
God, yes. If the Irish and Polish illegals staffing the resorts aren’t for you, who will be?
They'll blame it on Bush & the Tea Party.
I wish I could say I don’t long for your scenario. Let these effete New England SOBs who forced so much crap on the rest of the country enjoy what it was like for those ignored along the Mississippi and Missouri rivers. I’d like a nice slice of Schadenfreude.
Why don’t he and Moochelle just go swim at the bottom of the nearest outhouse? Being what they are, they probably wouldn’t even notice any difference.
Irene loves Obama too. Maybe she’s looking for him. /s
Obama’s fault!
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