When the President spent three of a recent week’s five working days fund raising for the Democratic Party people, even the press took notice. On August 9 he began a two-week vacation in a Martha’s Vineyard mansion and I’d like to suggest that he just stay on vacation for the remainder of his second term.
I grant you that his vacations do tend to be a tad costly. Last year the Obama family took vacations to Africa in June and July, and spent Christmas in Honolulu. According to Air Force documents, the two trips racked up nearly $16 million in expenses. If the President would just pick someplace to stay and not be getting on and off Air Force One to fund-raise it could be considered a savings.
Oh, I know he is still called “the leader of the free world”, but I doubt that the other leaders of other nations feel that way about him or feel any need to be seen with him. Few Democratic candidates for office do.
I am pretty sure that Vladimir Putin doesn’t. Obama has been on the phone to him a lot lately, getting instructions on what to say and do about Ukraine. The President sounds concerned about Ukraine, but curiously he has yet to have done anything about Russia’s intention to absorb it back into its lost empire of satellite nations. In fairness, Obama did send the Ukrainian army some boxes of ready-to-eat meals.
My thought is that, as long as Obama is on vacation things cannot get much worse here at home, short of a foreign invasion. Oh wait, we are being invaded by a horde of “undocumented” aliens from south of our border. Most, we’re told, are here to join their undocumented families who are already here. What is wrong with this picture?
With Majority Leader Harry Reid in the Senate, Obama doesn’t have to concern himself with either signing or vetoing any legislation