America's "Vacaying" First Family: A Portent?

America's "Vacaying" First Family: A Portent?

. . . As I’ve previously speculated, it may just be that Barack and Michelle smell major changes on their horizons, changes they believe in with as much intensity as they felt in 2008.

Former White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs recently opined that Barack Hussein Obama isn’t wedded to his job as president and Obama has said much the same thing. He also predicted to Matt Lauer in February, 2009 that his presidency would be a “one-term proposition” if the economy did not recover in 3 years.

See his prediction, and his subsequent retreat, here: http://bit.ly/qXlPtj

In view of the unfortunate reality that, 2 1/2 years into his tenure, the economy shows no signs of recovery and is swirling in the toilet, it makes sense that the Obamas are packing their bags even as they continue to milk the president’s job for all its worth.

Recent actions by the First Couple reinforce the idea that they are planning to vacate the premises at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue on or about January 20th, 2013, or sooner should they get a better opportunity or if the president finally concedes ineptness and was unqualified to hold his office in the first place.

How else can we explain their contemptuous, callous disregard for the concerns of the American people during a critical time other than, one, either Obama simply wants out of the presidency or, two, he doesn’t have the slightest clue on what to do about the unemployment crisis, or both?

Now, no one could possibly begrudge the leader of the free world taking some R&R time and Allah only knows how hard Obama works–25/8, according to his bride!

Still, as in comedy, timing and appearances are everything in politics. . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=5240)

Great Teddy Sighting!

I thought I had scooped the world when I noticed the similarities between the great white shark that made an unexpected appearance off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard in Massachusetts and the late “Liberal Lion,” Senator Teddy “Chappaquiddick” Kennedy. However, the perceptive folks at IOwntheWorld.com beat me to it: http://bit.ly/lB1ZWO

Not only did IOTW briefly summarize a Boston Herald story on the event, but they did the Herald one better by capturing the unmistakable Teddy revivivified and transmogrified, floating bloatedly and lazily off his former haunts where some lady named Martha must have tended a vineyard and where the Kennedy clan has cavorted for what seems like forever.

The IOTW photo is in marked distinction to the Herald picture in that the Boston newspaper shows the great white not basking and lolling in the still-coolish and still-exclusive waters off southern Cape Cod but rather sniffing and circling without chomping on a possibly-diseased carcass of a dead minke whale.

Father Joe Kennedy obviously got something through to his one thick son who cheated his way through Harvard, the importance of selectivity . . .
(Read more at http://www.genelalor.com/blog1/?p=4404)