Worst Week for a Vacay?

11 thoughts on “Worst Week for a Vacay?”

1. He’s clearly tired of the job, and waiting for it to be over. Bush was tired of it towards the end, too, but at least he kept working at it. Clinton loved every day.

   I think wistful thoughts about a parliamentary mechanism by which someone who is clearly phoning it in (or, like Wilson and maybe late Reagan, no longer up for it) can be bounced.

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2. Is there ever a good week for a president to vacation?

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   1. Yes, jen there is. This was not it.

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3. Daily Mail polishes the glass so the optics are really really bad: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2730503/Fist-bump-Furious-reactions-Obamas-5-hour-golf-game-overshadow-5-minute-ISIS-speech-teed-IMMEDIATELY-condemning-American-photojournalist-James-Foleys-executioners.html

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4. NY Times also brings the Windex: “many saw as callous indifference”…

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5. Not good optics.

   especially for people dumb enough to care about this stuff. I mean really.

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   1. Yes Matt, I agree.

      What difference – at this point, what difference does it make?

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   2. At what point will you start noticing that Obama is phoning it in?

      If even the NYT notices it, it’s gotten really obvious.

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6. If we’re going to bring back the formula, let’s at least do it right. “Even the liberal New York Times….”

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7. We can do better! How about, “Even the preening self-indulgent limousine liberal narcissists at the New York Times…”

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8. He doesn’t like being compared to Carter. Maybe the right comparison is Nero. http://nypost.com/2014/08/24/obamas-golf-outing-after-foley-beheading-was-a-huge-mistake/

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