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2011-08-18 Home Front: Politix
Obama Fiddling (but in Martha's Vineyard) while Rome Burns
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Posted by Bobby 2011-08-18 05:42|| || Front Page|| [2 views ]  Top

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Scarborough said the current controversy reminds him of Memorial Day Weekend 2010, when Obama insisted on relaxing in Chicago when many of his advisers were urging him to fly to the Gulf to show solidarity with victims of the BP oil spill. “He refused to do it, and got hammered for it politically,” Scarborough recalled. “We were told that ‘the president doesn’t do theater.’ I’m sorry, the president needs to do theater, baby.”

He DOES do theater. Just not on his days off.
Posted by Bobby 2011-08-18 06:39||   2011-08-18 06:39|| Front Page Top

#2 A serious review in order. Plan A didn't work. Plan B fizzled. Plan C under review. Where's my other dart?. Sir we each only get three darts. Don't be silly it's my game so I make the rules.
Posted by Dale 2011-08-18 07:59||   2011-08-18 07:59|| Front Page Top

#3 I think he was told before his election that no heavy lifting would be involved. Sucker!
Posted by Spot 2011-08-18 08:05||   2011-08-18 08:05|| Front Page Top

#4 Oh, he's working, in his own way. What, never saw a presdent primary against himself?
Posted by swksvolFF 2011-08-18 08:28||   2011-08-18 08:28|| Front Page Top

#5 They used to complain about George Bush...

Why yes...yes they did. And they looked liked idiots. Exactly the same way the people now complaining about the current President taking a vacation look like idiots.
Posted by DepotGuy 2011-08-18 08:33||   2011-08-18 08:33|| Front Page Top

#6 Malignant neglect.
Posted by jack salami 2011-08-18 09:16||   2011-08-18 09:16|| Front Page Top

#7 #2 A serious review in order. Plan A didn't work. Plan B fizzled. Plan C under review.

There never was a Plan A, B, or C. They will be forthcoming sometime in the future after the 2012 election--maybe or not.
Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-18 09:20||   2011-08-18 09:20|| Front Page Top

#8 Where I come from it's called LAZY !
Posted by Besoeker 2011-08-18 09:32||   2011-08-18 09:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Does appear to be politically tone deaf doesn't he. Seemed so savvy during the 2008 campaign I thought that was at least one thing he was good at. Apparantly not.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-08-18 10:23||   2011-08-18 10:23|| Front Page Top

#10 People are surprised that he is gone? Hasn't it been shown that this president and his advisers don't have the first fucking clue on how to govern?
Posted by DarthVader 2011-08-18 10:31||   2011-08-18 10:31|| Front Page Top

#11 Where I come from it's called LAZY !

Thank G*d for small favors---imagine Hillary won.
Posted by g(r)omgoru 2011-08-18 10:42||   2011-08-18 10:42|| Front Page Top

#12 This President is very much so lazy. He delegates everything to his friends and then wonders why none of it works. He is so lazy that he still to this day has not learned or studies the matters he is supposed to preside over.
Posted by newc 2011-08-18 11:29||   2011-08-18 11:29|| Front Page Top

#13 The night of the Great Fire of Rome, Nero was playing the lute in (I think) what is now Anzio. So Bammer being out of town fits the analogy.
Posted by Rob Crawford 2011-08-18 11:34||   2011-08-18 11:34|| Front Page Top

#14 Given the kind of "solutions" this president comes up with, I think we are all better off with him on vacation. Ideally, he will take 14.5 more months vacation, then retire.
Posted by Iblis 2011-08-18 12:04||   2011-08-18 12:04|| Front Page Top

#15 One thing I remember Hillary saying is, "I have a lot of plans, but we can't afford them all." Obama's plan is there is nothing that we can't afford. All we have to do is borrow and print money.
Posted by Deacon Blues 2011-08-18 12:29||   2011-08-18 12:29|| Front Page Top

#16 Mr. Schwarz,

you said Seemed so savvy during the 2008 campaign

I have to ask, WHY? What did he ever do that was so savvy? He was created by and nurtured by the progressive left-wing media and elites. Other than being their chosen vessel he did nothing; or did I miss something?
Posted by AlanC 2011-08-18 13:52||   2011-08-18 13:52|| Front Page Top

#17 I believe he seemed savvy because he avoided any and all questions with style. Yes he had a lot of help from a fawning press back then but you can't come from nowhere and win a national election with no serious credentials without some kind of election savvy.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-08-18 14:40||   2011-08-18 14:40|| Front Page Top

#18 Disagree Swartz. The one thing I think about during Obama's 2008 campaign in regards to "savy", or rather intelligence, is when during his big Race speech he threw his Grandmother "under the Bus". Nobody noticed though because his Baritone voice was so soothing...
Posted by Charles 2011-08-18 14:57||   2011-08-18 14:57|| Front Page Top

#19 Unemployment. Inflation. Debt. And you say he has no plan? I'm afraid that is the plan.
Posted by Abu Uluque 2011-08-18 14:58||   2011-08-18 14:58|| Front Page Top

#20 BO is mesmerized by his own image and the sound of his own voice. Does it really make any difference where he is. He doesn't do anything anyway. Is he hitting par yet?
Posted by JohnQC 2011-08-18 15:56||   2011-08-18 15:56|| Front Page Top

#21 Zero's supporters (media included) remind me of the stoners from school back in the '60's / '70's.

They'd toast themselves on sopors or acid or even hash and there attitude was "Wow, what a rush".

To the a$$holes that voted for him that is all he ever was a cheap high.
Posted by AlanC 2011-08-18 16:57||   2011-08-18 16:57|| Front Page Top

#22 He didn't seem savvy to me, rj - he sounded evasive.
Posted by Barbara 2011-08-18 19:02||   2011-08-18 19:02|| Front Page Top

#23 savvy or evasive what's the difference? The difference is between those that fell for his pseudo-charisma and are only now realizing they are fools and those that did not.

Just because everyone on this board, and everyone on the right saw right through him doesn't mean he wasn't slick and pulling the wool over a ton of folks and shafting Hillary and her team when the time came. I still think it was savvy, he played them like a fiddle.
Posted by rjschwarz 2011-08-18 20:21||   2011-08-18 20:21|| Front Page Top

#24 rjschwarz, I agree. We all know people who voted for BO, and came to deeply regret it. Bumper stickers have been scraped off, sheepish apologies have been made. A few weeks ago, Ace of Spades posed the key corollary: does anyone know anyone who did NOT vote for BO, but now wishes they had?

No, me neither.
Posted by RandomJD 2011-08-18 21:02||   2011-08-18 21:02|| Front Page Top

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