President Obama is on top of things. Despite the Ukraine
being squeezed to death by the Russian bear, serious delays in Syria destroying
its chemical-weapon stockpiles, and 239 Malaysian airline passengers apparently
being blown to smithereens by terrorists, he is deeply involved. He has called
Vladimir Putin of Russia two times for long conversations. How do we
know this? Because we see pictures of him on the telephone. And he is also talking
to many world leaders about these many crises. How do we know this? His
administration says so in a brief talking point … see: The Hill Story.
Not to mention his plethora of serious domestic issues: the
Obamacare sigh-up deadline rapidly approaching, the President’s budget proposal
being dead-on-arrival in Congress, the administration’s gutting of our military,
little or no White House attention to tax reform, our continued national
economic lethargy, etc. Is Obama
concerned with all these domestic failings? It must be so … for there is no
wringing of hands on the nightly news.
So all must be roses … for our President is hitting the links once
again in Key Largo in sunny south Florida.
This time his playing partners are a former basketball great, Valerie Jarrett’s
cousin, and a former football star. Why isn’t he in the White House Situation
Room with his key advisers mapping out administration actions to all these
issues? Beats me. I guess fun in the sun
trumps the serious business of governing … particularly after all that nasty cold
weather in Washington.
Yes, President Obama is on vacation again … just two months
after an extended three week stint in Hawaii.
In fact, he is on vacation so often that he hardly has time for all his
many Democrat fund-raising trips. Do the U.S. ever-alert media make a point of highlighting
these derelictions of duty (see: AWOL)? Do we ever hear a tsk-tsk from his many cable-news sycophants? Does Saturday
Night Live run stinging parodies about his lack of focus on world and domestic events? Does an arm-waving Jon Stewart on the Daily
Show mock this inattention? Get serious! It’s a wonder that we even know he is playing
golf in Florida.
And I do ponder what message this sends to Putin?
2 comments:
Maybe he's a delegator, not a micromanager.
During his two terms, GW Bush took more than 800 vacation days. And, got us into two very costly and un-necessary wars.
I think most of Bush 43's vacations were on his Texas ranch cutting brush and riding horses. Perhaps if Obama spent his down time at his Chicago home riding the el and organizing his community?
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