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A "Tone-Deaf" Obama Mocked By The NYT For Vacationing While The World Burns
When it comes to mocking president Obama, there is no easier or more effective way than focusing on his vacation/golfing schedule. The conservative Washington Examiner did just that last week, before the latest Malaysian Airlines disaster, when it reported that "It's going to be hot tubs, basketball, tennis and golf for the first family this summer, having set plans for a 16-day vacation in Martha's Vineyard, Mass., on a $12 million, 10-acre forested estate on the southwestern corner of the island.
Reports from the Bay State indicate that President Obama and his family will vacation August 9-24 at the 8,100-square foot, beachfront home of a Democratic donor that includes a pool, hot tub, basketball and tennis court. It will be new digs for the first family, who have summered on tony Martha's Vineyard every year of Obama's presidency, except in 2012 when he was running for reelection. The Vineyard Gazette reported that the White House has no major or public events planned for the almost three weeks, typical at this stage of a presidential vacation.
That and golf of course.
However, all of that is to be expected, and sure enough, Obama can and will parry such mockery as political attacks coming from the right, while remarking how strong the US economy has become under his watch, how many millions of waiters and bartenders thousands of manufacturing jobs he has created, and of course, how the stock market hits a record high now on a daily basis.
Things get dicier, however, when Obama is mocked and virtually attacked for his vacation plans by none other than that flag-bearer of leftist ideology, the New York Times itself. Which is precisely what just happened in "Sticking to His Travel Plans, at Risk of Looking Bad"
As smoke billowed from the downed Malaysian jetliner in the fields of eastern Ukraine on Thursday, President Obama pressed ahead with his schedule: a cheeseburger with fries at the Charcoal Pit in Delaware, a speech about infrastructure and two splashy fund-raisers in New York City.
The potential for jarring split-screen imagery was clear. Reports of charred bodies and a ground-to-air missile attack from Eastern Europe dominated television screens while photographers snapped pictures of a grinning Mr. Obama holding a toddler at the restaurant. The presidential motorcade was later filmed pulling up to Trump Place Apartments, the Riverside Avenue venue for his first fund-raiser.
And yet, White House aides said no consideration was given to abandoning the president’s long-planned schedule, even during the hourlong flight from Delaware to New York, when word suddenly arrived that Israel had begun a ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, providing the day’s second international challenge.
Instead, White House officials simply made sure to describe the president’s on-the-road management of the crises: calls to world leaders from Air Force One, telephone briefings from Secretary of State John Kerry and a secure-line meeting of his national security staff from a room in the Trump Place Apartments before his fund-raiser.
“It is rarely a good idea to return to the White House just for show, when the situation can be handled responsibly from the road,” said Jennifer Palmieri, the White House communications director. “Abrupt changes to his schedule can have the unintended consequence of unduly alarming the American people or creating a false sense of crisis.”
Actually, that is somewhat correct: it has gotten to the point where seeing Obama actually work in the White House, instead of golfing of shaking hand with the same Wall Street bankers his DOJ pretends to prosecute, would create a "sense of crisis" among the American people. Not so sure about be "false" part.
And this is where things got rough:
For an administration in its sixth year, juggling presidential optics is nothing new. And with some rare exceptions, the public relations team around the president has remained consistently stubborn about refusing to let the never-ending stream of political, economic or international crises affect Mr. Obama’s daily schedule.
The current myriad incidents are no exceptions: Moments after making a grim statement about Ukraine on Friday, the president popped into the East Room, where the first lady, Michelle Obama, was holding a mock state dinner for children to promote her Let’s Move nutrition initiative. “My big thing,” he confessed to the kids, “chips and guacamole!” There was plenty of laughter all around.
To be sure, conservatives promptly ridiculed the president for what he does best: put on a great show before the teleprompter then quietly disappear in the golf cart. As noted above, this is nothing new and the administration felt no need to defend itself.
“Instead of responding to multiple international crises, the president apparently thought it was a better use of his time to attend a set of fund-raisers in New York,” Representative Kevin McCarthy, Republican of California and the incoming majority leader, said in a statement. “While the president is out on the loose and having a good time, he should remember that his responsibilities as commander in chief don’t stop when he’s out of the office.”
However, by now even the ubiquotous social media is starting not only to noticed, but to comment:
Administration officials shrug off that kind of organized Republican criticism. But social media users noticed, too. Twitter was filled with snarky mentions of the president’s activities on Thursday. One noted that Mr. Obama “interrupts busy fund-raising night to check in with team on two crises. Then back to business.” Another wrote: “Nice he could take a moment to check on those meddling world events.”
Obama won't be the first president to see his reputation tarnished by his vacation plans:
Veterans of previous administrations recalled that the political damage could be serious if the American people concluded that the president was politically tone deaf or insensitive, especially to the suffering of others during an emergency.
Scott McClellan, who served as George W. Bush’s press secretary during Hurricane Katrina, recalled that Mr. Bush, on a trip through Western states, was photographed strumming a guitar with a country music artist even as the storm began to bear down on New Orleans, flooding streets and stranding residents.
“When those moments are placed side by side with a crisis that’s worsening, it creates a perception problem that the White House can’t ignore,” Mr. McClellan said in an interview.
In his book “What Happened,” Mr. McClellan recalls with horror seeing the “image of a seemingly carefree President Bush pursuing his original schedule and disregarding the plight of Katrina’s victims — the dead, the homeless, the lost.”
Later, Mr. McClellan writes: “With 20/20 hindsight, it’s clear that President Bush should have canceled his two-day western trip and headed back to Washington on Saturday or Sunday, before Katrina unleashed its fury.”
The NYT's punchline:
“There is a total lack of symmetry from what the American people are seeing from the president and what is going on in the world,” Mr. Schmidt said. He acknowledged that no president should be captive to events or hunkered down in the White House. And he said presidents, like other people, deserved downtime. But he said White House occupants had to abandon those moments when the situation demanded.
Will this time be any different for the tone deaf president, and will the first observation of Obama's vacationeering by a liberal outlet force him to change his ways? Or does the world have to finally succumb to at least one mushroom cloud beside the countless fires raging across the globe, before someone in the White House notices? We should find out... but not before Obama comes back from Martha's Vineyard on August 24. Let's just hope that no major wars break out over the next month.
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At what point in human history was it possible to stop the best organized gangs of criminals from prevailing?
People "deserve what they get" in the sense of not being actually able to stop that being delivered. Governments were always the biggest form of organized crime, controlled by the best organized gang of criminals. That is merely become more blatant now than it previously was:
“The illusion of freedom will continue as long as it's profitable to continue the illusion. At the point where the illusion becomes too expensive to maintain, they will just take down the scenery, they will pull back the curtains, they will move the tables and chairs out of the way and you will see the brick wall at the back of the theater.” -- Frank Zappa The American people would have to go through some series of political miracles to gain a realistic view that, as citizens, they are members of an organized crime gang, that have a duty to try to maintain better dynamic equilibria between the systems of organized lies operating robberies. However, since the vast majority of them have been scientifically brainwashed to believe in bullshit, of course, it is practically impossible for them to understand that Obama was merely the best professional liar and immaculate hypocrite available to fill the office of President, as a puppet performing for muppets."... where the first lady, Michelle Obama, was holding a mock state dinner for children to promote her Let’s Move nutrition initiative..."
manchelle "obama" ain't no lady....the bitch is a man. anatomically and physiologically "michelle" is a man.....the president is a homosexual who has 3 dead boyfriends from the reverend wrong's church who were inconveniently in the way when the cia/mossad ran its manchurian candidate for president....
"obama" is really bari malik shabazz or shabbaz and does not run the country. that is why he has time for golf and guacamole.....he is a dull witted empty suit which the real powers put in front of the american people as the fake president....the usa is governed by the bush crime syndicate, rockefeller nazis, rothschild satanists, cia, ziocons, and other treasonous filth.
What else can he do? He has no idea how to lead, doesn't understand business, economics or finance and would rather be on the "choom wagon".
chips guac and crack.... perfect together
Barry's sign should read backward instead of Forward. Like back to dirt roads and a 3rd world status.
Who elected him? What were they thinking or smokin?
Where is the Putin love now Tyler? Strangely silent on your admiration for that bastard now that he's responsible for the deaths of 298 innocents aren't you?
And your diversion is always the Obama hatefest that the idiots here lap up like a bunch of thirsty cats.
Pathetic, just pathetic...
I look forward to your full investigative report upon the downed airliner with ace witness reports, black box findings, air traffic control data and numerous other epiphanous findings that name with no reasonable doubt that this was their fault.
This is what happens when people dogmatically decide to be "against" something, in this case Obama, rather than assess situations on a case by case basis.
Dogmatically decide to be against something?! You think that there is a lack of evidence of his incompetence? Should acts of gross incompetence be judged on a case by case basis? What happens when you have a list of incompetent acts as long as your arm? Do you still hang around to find out if the next act might be one of brilliance? What if that person has the authority to send people to their deaths? Or murder innocents? Or start a nuclear war?
That Mr. Mugabe seems like a bad 'un, but lets wait and see what he does next, he might surprise us with a humanitarian act of breathtaking selflessness. Maybe we can award him with a Nobel Prize...
Pathetic, just pathetic...
Yeah, pathetic, Babaloo, that you would pump out such trite proganda on Zero Hedge.
Maybe the reaon the world is burning is because Russia shot down a passenger plane, invaded Ukraine, jeopardized EU energy supplies. All the while Russia armed China, Syria, Iran, North Korea, Cuba, Pakistan, etc.
But this is Obama's fault for playing golf? Truth is I don't really like Obama, but Putin is the invader now. As a side note, and this is an absolute, he is the president of my country and I have and will always fight for the USA.
Tell your boy Vlad to stop shooting passenger planes out of the sky. It really is just that simple.
Are you working towards joining the All-Star Idiot Troll Brigade, gorilla? Or did you just forget the "sacrasm" tag?
Joe who? LMFAO RM!
Putin is the invader now.
A political puppet does not need to know anything regarding what he pretends to decide to do. He has no worries, nor any real work. His duty to to do what his handlers pull his strings to make him do. His only "job" is to continue to be a professional liar and immaculate hypocrite, that can read a teleprompter, as necessary. There is no reason why he could not set up the teleprompter on the golf green, other than that might look bad, but with a few props, even that works: "put on a great show before the teleprompter then quietly disappear in the golf cart"
Since the overwhelming majority of Americans have been reduced to Zombie Sheeple, whose political incompetency makes Obama's performance a cake walk, Obama has nothing to worry about ... There are smart people working hard to continue to manipulate the masses of muppets that puppets like Obama perform for.
IF Obama was not a puppet, he would not be President. IF he stopped being a puppet, he would be assassinated. He has no real duties, other than to be a figurehead. The astonishing thing is that he still has a 47% approval rating, the last I looked. That demonstrates that the bar for him to perform in his puppet show is very low, since he only has to fool enough of the people enough of the time, which is extremely easy to do, given that the the American people are the most scientifically brainwashed people there have ever yet been in the history of the world.
To paraphrase Snyder, I could go on to list item after item of the ways in which most Americans are Zombie Sheeple, who have a President suited to them ... BUT, what is the fucking point, this is a runaway tragedy, with no end in sight to how much worse it is going to get!
Hey Tyler, this is the NYT covering their asses so they can say that they are fiar and objective. They are the ones who helped to elect Obama in the first place. When the bill comes due for this abhorent administration, they can survive by claiming that they were only following "orders" or in their case, the trend of the day. They make me sick!
By the New York Times, no less. For a Democratic politician, this satire is bound to sting a bit.
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I up voted your deleated comment because proper edicit requires me to deleat many of the comments I would like to make befofe I put them out for the world to see.
Indeed. +1. :)
Not having your hand on the tiller is tiring. Obama is exhausted from indolence. He is his father's son
Now that the government can take an active role in creating news programs both government accountability and the role of free media has been is directly diminished. As of July 2, 2013 a taboo came silently to an end with the implementation of a new law passed in January. For decades a so-called anti-propaganda law prevented the U.S. government's mammoth broadcasting arm from delivering programming to American audiences.
The new law unleashes thousands of hours per week of government-funded radio and TV programs for domestic U.S. consumption. This was criticized by many human rights activist as a green light for U.S. domestic propaganda efforts and in my opinion it is already being felt. More on this subject in the article below.
http://brucewilds.blogspot.com/2014/07/when-propaganda-and-surveillance....
when obumbler drops the scripted telepromter front he looks like a goofy fuck...
obama is fueled by racial and economic hate fosterd by his commie view of things...
this is like an acid that eats from the inside out....
will he last full term..... does he care...
he is the king with no clothes and knows it.......
A "Tone-Deaf" Obama Mocked By The NYT For Vacationing While The World Burns
It was MUCH worse for Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus when the Times Roman caught him on a hot mike saying, "Where are my fucking marshmellows."
If he gets too "involved" in anything he will then have to take RESPONSIBILITY for outcomes-he has fucked up everything he's touched, so to take responsiblity would be disasterous for his regime. period.
Distance doth not give the black heart* plausible deniability.
(The burger boy of Delaware)
need i say more.