Posted on 08/11/2011 9:00:00 AM PDT by COUNTrecount
At a time when many more cash-strapped Americans are stuck at home instead of vacationing at the beach, President Obama next week will lead an entourage of several dozens to exclusive Martha's Vineyard island at a cost of millions to taxpayers.
While technically he is paying for his estimated $50,000 a week rental of the 28-acre beachfront Blue Heron Farm in woodsy Chilmark, the dozens of U.S. Secret Service agents, communications officials, top aides, drivers, and U.S. Coast Guard personnel with him will be covered by taxpayers as with every other presidential vacation.[Get your Whispers on your iPad--subscribe to U.S. News Weekly.]
His 11-day stay will require the Coast Guard to keep ships floating near Obama's farm, a presidential helicopter and jet at the ready and security agents on 24-hour duty. Armored SUVs dubbed "war wagons" have been flown in to carry the presidential family around the island. It was the same way when former President George H.W. Bush visited Kennebunkport, Maine and Bill Clinton visited Martha's Vineyard during their presidencies
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To Democrats ‘tax dollar waste’ is renamed ‘economic stimulus’ and ‘jobs’
It's the name of the game.
but he’ll be able to lay back and have a beer with comrade
professor gates who owns a house there.
Black guy rips Obama....hysterical!
When Glenn Beck heard the following rant by comedian Felonious Munk, he couldn’t believe it. You probably won’t either.....WARNING GRAPHIC LANGUAGE
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/this-is-comedian-felonious-munks-wild-anti-obama-rant/
I don't see them as being happy kids.
It’d be a lot cheaper if he would go to his ranch like W and Reagan used to do. Oh I forgot, he doesn’t have a ranch. He only has a house someone else bought for him.
Another tough day in Barry’s World.
Thursday’s Obama Schedule
11:25 am || Departs White House
1:15 pm || Arrives Grand Rapids, Mich.
2:25 pm || Tours Johnson Controls
2:40 pm || Delivers remarks
3:35 pm || Departs Grand Rapids for New York City
6:05 pm || Attends fundraiser
7:10 pm || Delivers remarks at second fundraiser
9:10 pm || Departs New York
10:20 pm || Arrives White House
All times Eastern
We take Coast Guard personnel on our vacation, too.
Does Obama and his first RaceWitch remind anyone else of nothing more than garden variety, post-Katrina looters?
Stealing whatever “free” goodies they can, before the grown-ups restore order.
I thought MSM told us we couldn't credibly say that Obama doesn't work hard! B S !
Isn’t occupying the WH a big enough vacation for his dumb butt?
Children in a home headed by a Malignant Narcissist are in fact miserable. He sucks all the oxygen out of the home-life, and demands that everything revolve around him.
To give but one example. He took pride in not celebrating the girls’ birthdays or Christmas. This was the kind of middle-class white thing Jeremiah Wright commanded blacks to eschew. But when Obama’s B-Day rolls around, the parties never stop. He’s special, you see; he deserves nonstop celebrations, gifts and accolades. The girls are lesser beings; they are fortunate enough [in Obama’s mind] just to be his kids—more than that they do not need.
Just as Democrat bombs are ok but Republican bombs are evil, so it is with vacations. A Republican President is ignoring the critical issues when he takes a vacation while a democrat President is getting a much needed rest. The free and unbiased American press.....what a joke.
Now, now: give the man a break. All those fundraisers are exhausting.
Employees at Johnson Controls had better get their resumes in order. Obama speaks at their plant and it'll be closed within a year
Obama: The anti-Midas.
Such a “photoshoppable” picture. Oh, the many variations on a theme...
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