“Pretty nice, eh,” Obama said Sunday as the family took in the breathtaking view from the Grand Canyon’s Hopi Point under a magnificent blue sky and overlooking a 5,000-foot drop to the Colorado River. “Last time I was here was when I was 11 years old.” Asked by a ranger if it looked the same, he said, “It does!”
With the wonders of his country at his disposal, Obama did things that might seem a little out of his comfort zone. It’s safe to say that this Hawaiian-born president has spent more time on beaches and in cities than he has in the mountains of the West.
Update:I heard your comments, I’ll try to back up on these types of stories, I just think it is quite amusing that these politicians aren’t working.
I know Bush was on vacation all the time, but that doesn’t mean that Obama sucks too.
I will gladly pay for him to stay on vacation if he promises not to do anything else for the rest of his term in office.
Everyone would benefit if he was paid to go on vacation the rest of his term in office.
Obama should get out, and I’m not being snide.
The LAST thing Obama wants to do is project a bunker mentality. What about when Carter holed himself up in the White House during the Iran Hostage Crisis? It didn’t help.
So Obama should get out. Take a break. Give the impression that all will be fine.
Why is it that every time there is a story about Obama that is negative people have to say Bush did this or that?
They are both idiots Only thing Bush had going for him is he could screw up without a teleprompter.
So, the fact that he goes on vacation is a big story.
not!
You just want people to think he is going on vacation.
why?
Well, he’d have to be real to go on vacation. Right?
Wrong!
No more than Max Headroom.
That’s why there was no birth certificate!
A computer-generated graphic can’t have a birth certificate!
This guy only exists on video.
Just like Bin Laden!
Underneath it all its the same dude who played Jar-Jar Binks.
But now they call him czar-czar.
Obama’s gotten the economy into a recovering mode before going on break. Job report’s looking better, housing report’s looking better, market on a path back north of 10,000, economists predicting the recession is almost over. All in less than a year, yet to hear Dvorak and similar pundits talk you’d think his administration was already a worse failure than Bush’s. Gotta love it.
Guilherme Cherman? Who is this guy?
The President is there to draw attention away from the real power. So I do not care where he pretends to run the country.
#26 Guilherme Cherman brings up interesting stories. I have no idea who he is. Might be a Non de Plume but then again almost all of the editors write under one. I have it on good authority that John C. Dvorak is actually T. Herman Zweibel from The Onion newspaper.
See for yourself!
http://www.theonion.com/content/columnists/view/zweibel
Meanwhile, the US is in trillions in debt, 17% real unemployment, the dollar is going down, and Guilherme Cherman is wasting time posting on a blog!
Guilherme Cherman
1) Everyone is entitled to a vacation. In case you didn’t notice, he took his family on a sight seeing trip. Every father can understand that.
2) While normally I don’t follow the obvious inane posts, I notice this has gotten a few replies.
3) What the eff is it with “shoot the messinger” bullcrap against Guilherme Cherman. The simple response should be a simple “iffen ya dun like it, dun red it”.
#20-Obama has worked really hard his first 200 days…
True, destroying the engine behind prosperity is hard work. As far as healtcare reform may I ask if you have had your end of life counseling?
If not, perhaps I can help.
What a moronic post! You are pissed off because the President is not working 24/7. You idiot the office of the president is 24/7. The man by himself does not run the show.
You must be some kind of a loner with no social ties, no wife and kinds to be making these kinds of posts about people taking downtime. You write as if you caught him doing crack with a hooker.
# 19
“Hey guys, I think he should be working on rebuilding the health care bill, not on a tour with family.”
REALLY! Please do a Wikipedia search on how laws come to be in the US. Do us a favor, take a US civics class while you are at it.
I’d rather Obama be off on vacation. At least he is not around the White House to sign stupid bills into stupid laws.
#20 I agree. Obama has worked quite hard at… doing the same economical mess Bush did.
#25 Where the hell do you get those numbers?
Bush was on vacation before September 11th.
Guilherme Cherman, after reading this stupid ignorant post I’ve decided to never read Dvorak’s blog again. Your brain is a mess.
I’m no wing-nut, and I think Obama spends too much time “campaig’n” and making personal aqppearances. But come on, I would begrudge the guy a few hours of piece and quiet at the Grand Canyon with his family.
Oh, by the way… What Bush did or didn’t do, is a childish argument, grow up people. Judge this President on what “HE” does or doesn’t do…
#38, agreed.
Most retarted post ever on this blog