Sheryl Gay Stolberg has an article in the New York Times (12/26/10) about what President Obama’s trips to Hawaii say about him: “Mr. Obama’s disappearance behind the palm trees reveals much about his presidential style, and also his thinking about how to balance work and play.” She contrasts these trips to his birth state with his rejection of the traditional presidential vacation spot: “He rarely goes to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, and when he does, it is not to conduct business.”
One problem with Stolberg’s analysis: Since taking office, Obama has been to Camp David 15 times, and to Hawaii twice.
Well, Jim, you’ll never get a job at Fox or The Weekly Standard et al with REALITY-based commentary like that! This is ‘professional’ wresting commentary/journalism – – – jump off the top rope doing a back-flip and ‘crush’ your opponent – – – who cares if it’s all BS? Good visuals and hewing to the story-line/framing, THAT’S where contemporary right-wing (& much MSM) journalism is at.
“He rarely goes to Camp David, the presidential retreat in the Catoctin Mountains of Maryland, and when he does, it is not to conduct business…
so, when he goes to the traditional vacation spot he uses it for vacations….the nerve!
Who cares ?The more he is on vacation the better.If we could send him to mars for two years I shudder to think how this country would rebound without his befuddled meddling.