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From John E. Carey at Peace and Freedom '08

Barack Obama: The Vacation Is Over

For Barack Obama, finally and thankfully, the vacation is over.

It is time Senator Obama connects with the American people and earns his place in the arena: and wins our respect, our confidence and our votes.

This cannot be done through high oratory with lofty goals.  We need to know where he stands on the issues: all the issues.  And with the bark off.  No bull.

Today Barack Obama returns from his Hawaiian Holiday.  Time to get to work.
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When we first heard that Barack Obama was headed off to a Hawaiian holiday in the middle of his campaign to win our hearts and minds (and votes) we didn’t believe it.  Many journalists said he needed a vacation.

We objected.

And so did at least one journalist that we respect and admire.

On the August 10 edition of ABC’s This Week, ABC News political analyst Cokie Roberts criticized Sen. Barack Obama — who was born in Hawaii — for “going off this week to a vacation in Hawaii,” which she said “does not make any sense whatsoever.” Roberts stated: “I know his grandmother lives in Hawaii and I know Hawaii is a state, but it has the look of him going off to some sort of foreign, exotic place.” Roberts continued: “He should be in Myrtle Beach, and, you know, if he’s going to take a vacation at this time.”

I have heard the words “deserve it” or “deserves it” and “entitled’ too many times from important Democrats lately.

When I challenged the notion that Barack Obama go on a summer holiday to Hawaii during the run for the White House, I was deluged with on line comments and email telling me “he deserves it” and he was “entitled.”

When the Democrat Party and, presumably, Barack Obama himself agreed to allow a roll call vote on Hillary Clinton’s candidacy during the Democrat convention, delegates and ’spokespeople’ rushed to the microphones to say, “She deserves it.”

Well…. I object.

Nobody in America or anywhere else in life, it seems to me, deserves anything.

Especially in America, I was always instructed and I certainly believe, people earn what they get.

As for Hillary’s convention poll, who cares?  She lost.  She didn’t “win” over enough delegates.  Get over it.  She doesn’t “deserve” anything. Except another shot next time if she earns it.

For Mr. Obama’s vacation, I find it in bad taste and a way of escaping from earning the White House by spending time with the people he supposes to lead: American voters. He wants to lead all the American people but his biggest crowd so far has been in Germany and the most time he has spent in any state in over a year was spent in Hawaii.  Sleeping, playing golf and sucking down Slurpys.

Since Mr. Obama defeated Hillary Clinton to win the Democrat primary season, he has done two memorable things: he went on a world whirlwind tour (bypassing the opportunity to visit war wounded U.S. troops in Germany, volunteers all) and he has gone on vacation in Hawaii.
 
Mr. Obama in Hawaii

Well, I wish I could take my wife to Hawaii for a holiday but we don’t have the money.  And if we did have the money we’d have to close two businesses and deprive ourselves of the income they produce to go on a vacation.  Meanwhile the meter that keeps track of all our business expenses (rent, internet fees, telephone, electricity, etc) will keep on ticking and adding up new expenses.

And then there are taxes.  If Mr. Obama adds to our tax burden my wife and all the people she hired will lose their jobs.  One lady in her business already had a stroke and didn’t want me to call 911 because, she said, as she could have been taking her last breath, “No money.”

We are in economic hard times and the guy many people want to see as their president is on holiday — not listening to our economic woes and not providing leadership and not earning our votes.

He even turned down John McCain’s invitation to get close to the American people in the “Town Hall” format debate.  We thought he agreed to that previously, or is this one of those democratic “I was for it before I was against it” deals?

And when Russia invaded South Ossetia and then plunged into Georgia proper, pillaging, looting and killing as they went in, John McCain made some tough statements and even phoned the President of Georgia, Mikheil Saakashvili. 
 
Above: Georgia’s President Mikheil Saakashvili 

Mr. Saakashvilli even mentioned Mr. McCain as he discussed the situation with the media.Mr. Obama was on vacation.         

Yup.  The man that wants us to trust him on foreign policy matters, the man who said he’d meet with Iran’s President ”Wipe Israel Off The Map” Ahmadinejad, Barack Obama, was on holiday.

Above: Senator Obama at play.

George W. Bush decided to give up golf after 9-11.  He said he though it was unbecoming and in bad taste to play golf while Americans were fighting and dying in combat.

Mr. Obama doesn’t care about that and he even doesn’t care about the voters who want to get to know him better.

He is in Hawaii playing golf during the campaign: a time set aside for the candidate to get to know us and a time we need to get to know the candidate.

We, the American people, deserve better.

By John E. Carey
Peace and Freedom
http://johnibiii.wordpress.com/

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Comments

[Skunkfeathers]

Yep...Bush was criticized by the Left anytime he took time off at his ranch; yet in keeping with their "entitlement mentality", Obama is "entitled" to take time off. Amusing hypocrisy, but hardly surprising from the Left. The more ridiculous, incredulous, and fraudulent it is, the more typically like the Left it is.

[Layla]

Debbie that fool is just that a fool. I am so sick of Obama skating on everything under the sun. It is time for the sun to go down with our wrath upon him! Oh he makes me so sick.

Off topic, Debbie I was a guest on The Gathering Storm with WC and Always on Watch, AOW. I was interviewed about my past marriage to that ex radical pig muzzie. I thought you might enjoy hearing it when the podcast is available on BlogTalk Radio. The link to their show "The Gathering Storm" is on my site. I am just letting you know because you were the one who encouraged me to write about it. I have to tell you talking about it today - I almost broke down a couple times. I still have a hard time reconciling it all Debbie. I am not sure I ever will.

[Debbie]

Layla, thanks for telling me about this. I will go listen, I'm sure it is great. You know that I feel what you experienced can be a lesson for others, Americans, other Westerners. So much can be learned from the way you were treated.

Debbie

[Katie]

I wonder if Obama got a copy of his birth certificate in Hawaii. He was there, it only costs $14 and takes only an hour or two. Plus he went to see Granny. I wonder if he told her to stay away from the press or else. Notice he didn't take the kids to see her. I wonder if his kids have ever met her.