Obama: What the hell are you thinking?

[bluehenbillk]

- Oil leaking like a sieve all over the Gulf

- Memorial Day Weekend, we have tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan.

Where's Barack spending the Memorial Day Weekend? Vacationing with family in Chicago.

Maybe he didn't see that the ChiSox were out of town.

What is it with sitting President's that they just don't get........

[HI54UNI]

Waiting for the Bush bashers to start bitching about Barry's vacation plans.

[CitadelGrad]

1st quarter nominal GDP revised downward to 3%. Thank you, President Obama. Enjoy your Memorial Day vacation in Chicago.

[93henfan]

Waiting for the Bush bashers to start bitching about Barry's vacation plans.

I bashed Bush, and I'll bash this turd as well. He ought to be in the second or third week of a vacation on the Louisiana coastline right about now. The guy is committing political suicide this month. People pay a little bit more attention too when their retirement plans just lost another 10% in the past few weeks.

[bluehenbillk]

People pay a little bit more attention too when their retirement plans just lost another 10% in the past few weeks.

I was one of those people, I look at the balance once a month, didn't do cartwheels over the latest #'s.

[YoUDeeMan]

I bashed Bush, and I'll bash this turd as well. He ought to be in the second or third week of a vacation on the Louisiana coastline right about now. The guy is committing political suicide this month. People pay a little bit more attention too when their retirement plans just lost another 10% in the past few weeks.

Obama missed a golden opportunity to show that he is making sacrifices and has the pulse of the common people. Imagine him on the beach, tanning oil on hand...on foot...on the blanket...on his children...the beach, the TV reporters...the wildlife...just a wonderful photo opportunity and a way to increase Gulf coast tourism.

Wonder what SPF crude oil is rated? Coppertone and Hawaian Tropic should be down there collecting the stuff by the boat load.

[Pwns]

I honestly don't see how this is going to exacerbate the oil leak in any way. I wasn't particularly bothered by Shrub's vacationing, either. He probably took too much of it, but I don't know if not doing so could have made him much more effective of a POTUS.

[houndawg]

I bashed Bush, and I'll bash this turd as well. He ought to be in the second or third week of a vacation on the Louisiana coastline right about now. The guy is committing political suicide this month. People pay a little bit more attention too when their retirement plans just lost another 10% in the past few weeks.

Obama missed a golden opportunity to show that he is making sacrifices and has the pulse of the common people. Imagine him on the beach, tanning oil on hand...on foot...on the blanket...on his children...the beach, the TV reporters...the wildlife...just a wonderful photo opportunity and a way to increase Gulf coast tourism.

Wonder what SPF crude oil is rated? Coppertone and Hawaian Tropic should be down there collecting the stuff by the boat load.

The common people don't matter, Cluck. Officially.

[houndawg]

- Oil leaking like a sieve all over the Gulf

- Memorial Day Weekend, we have tens of thousands of troops in Afghanistan.

Where's Barack spending the Memorial Day Weekend? Vacationing with family in Chicago.

Maybe he didn't see that the ChiSox were out of town.

What is it with sitting President's that they just don't get........

Barack's way ahead of you, bill, it's you that don't get it. If he pisses off BP they'll buy a different President and do it with the blessing of the Supreme Court.

[VictorG]

Talk about not getting it................Maybe he needs a vacation as we all do! What do you expect him to do. Grab a rag and start mopping up! Grape a snipers rifle and shot at terrorists?

The real question is what is Congress doing for the Holiday? I know some of them will be getting drunk (like some of us), many will be off on wondrous vacations thanks to lobbyists and many others will be at strip clubs having "party meetings"!

[dbackjon]

You do realize this is his first vacation in months - taking a couple of days in Chicago, no biggie.

He is spending Memorial Day at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

[travelinman67]

People pay a little bit more attention too when their retirement plans just lost another 10% in the past few weeks.

I was one of those people, I look at the balance once a month, didn't do cartwheels over the latest #'s.

Just gotta start working smart>>>>>>>>get government job.

[ASUG8]

You do realize this is his first vacation in months - taking a couple of days in Chicago, no biggie.

He is spending Memorial Day at the Abraham Lincoln National Cemetery

He took a few days last month in Asheville too.....no biggie, just a reminder.

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/201 ... -vacation/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[93henfan]

I was one of those people, I look at the balance once a month, didn't do cartwheels over the latest #'s.

Just gotta start working smart>>>>>>>>get government job.

Check.

[danefan]

He definitely made a political mistake with the oil spill situation.

But lets be honest here. Do you guys think the President is ever really on vacation? Just because he's not taking official meetings, doesn't mean he's just chilling out drinking a beer and smoking a cigar in his backyard.

The guy is working 24/7, 365 for 4 or 8 years straight, no matter who is in office.

[93henfan]

He definitely made a political mistake with the oil spill situation.

But lets be honest here. Do you guys think the President is ever really on vacation? Just because he's not taking official meetings, doesn't mean he's just chilling out drinking a beer and smoking a cigar in his backyard.

The guy is working 24/7, 365 for 4 or 8 years straight, no matter who is in office.

Of course he is. There's a military attache with the nuclear football right outside his door when he's banging the old lady.

But like you said, how a guy, during a defining moment like this in his presidency, isn't down on the beach in Forrest Gump land sticking a gloved hand in some oil is beyond baffling. He just didn't step up, for his own PR if nothing else. He missed a free 10 point bump in approval by not getting out of the White House two weeks ago.

[ASUG8]

He definitely made a political mistake with the oil spill situation.

But lets be honest here. Do you guys think the President is ever really on vacation? Just because he's not taking official meetings, doesn't mean he's just chilling out drinking a beer and smoking a cigar in his backyard.

The guy is working 24/7, 365 for 4 or 8 years straight, no matter who is in office.

That's exactly why I don't get really uptight about these guys taking a few days here and there. Even when Bush was spending time at the ranch I don't think there's a huge amount of downtime. Even then he was out clearing brush (the old lady put him to work ).

As far as kicking back smoking a cigar and having a beer, he does do that (but he's normally brokering peace between a Cambridge police officer and a Harvard professor).

On the other hand, it's not like these guys don't have some idea just how crammed their schedules will be and how little privacy they will have for the rest of their lives upon attaining the office. If you want to work 25/8, good by me but don't sign me up for it.

[native]

He definitely made a political mistake with the oil spill situation.

But lets be honest here. Do you guys think the President is ever really on vacation? Just because he's not taking official meetings, doesn't mean he's just chilling out drinking a beer and smoking a cigar in his backyard.

The guy is working 24/7, 365 for 4 or 8 years straight, no matter who is in office.

Of course he is. There's a military attache with the nuclear football right outside his door when he's banging the old lady.

But like you said, how a guy, during a defining moment like this in his presidency, isn't down on the beach in Forrest Gump land sticking a gloved hand in some oil is beyond baffling. He just didn't step up, for his own PR if nothing else. He missed a free 10 point bump in approval by not getting out of the White House two weeks ago.

Exactly. The other baffling thing is why Obama never gave Jindahl permission to build the sand berms like he asked. It would have cost nothing and made him look Presidential, decisive and bipartisan. But noooooo. Now Obummer just looks detached, incompetent, indecisive and hyper-partisan. What a stupid and irresponsible fvck-up.

Same with GW, who should have shown up immediately in shirt sleeves and opened up a command center to which he invited Blanco and Nagin. But noooooo.

Jeb knows how to do these things. He showed up immediately in shirt sleeves for all three hurricanes that hit Florida in the same year.

[AZGrizFan]

He definitely made a political mistake with the oil spill situation.

But lets be honest here. Do you guys think the President is ever really on vacation? Just because he's not taking official meetings, doesn't mean he's just chilling out drinking a beer and smoking a cigar in his backyard.

The guy is working 24/7, 365 for 4 or 8 years straight, no matter who is in office.

Of course he is. There's a military attache with the nuclear football right outside his door when he's banging the old lady.

But like you said, how a guy, during a defining moment like this in his presidency, isn't down on the beach in Forrest Gump land sticking a gloved hand in some oil is beyond baffling. He just didn't step up, for his own PR if nothing else. He missed a free 10 point bump in approval by not getting out of the White House two weeks ago.

Bush was in Crawford for many of the defining moments of his presidency. Not sure it matters WHERE the President is....just that he's doing his job effectively, which Obama clearly is NOT.

[andy7171]

If Travis going to keep a running count on Obama's days out of the white house?

[Skjellyfetti]

Y'all know he's going to the Gulf tomorrow, right?

[93henfan]

Y'all know he's going to the Gulf tomorrow, right?

What's that, day 39 or 40 of the spill?

[Skjellyfetti]

Y'all know he's going to the Gulf tomorrow, right?

What's that, day 39 or 40 of the spill?

You know he also visited the Gulf May, 2nd... right?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10528187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[93henfan]

What's that, day 39 or 40 of the spill?

You know he also visited the Gulf May, 2nd... right?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10528187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

And the government still hasn't done a damn thing to assist, 25 days later. Sad, isn't it?

[Baldy]

What's that, day 39 or 40 of the spill?

You know he also visited the Gulf May, 2nd... right?
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=10528187" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

That's right, almost two weeks after the spill started.