Presidential Vacation

You know what’s crazy? I’ll tell you what’s crazy.™

Going on a vacation and everyone in the world blasting you for it.

Can you imagine stepping out of your Mazatlan Cabana, speedo snugly clinging to all your special man places, and people start booing you.

Somebody pass the rotten vegetables please.

Here’s the thing. All of us work harder than ever now-a-days to make ends meet. That’s not easy in a world that’s colder and more unforgiving than Joan Rivers’ tongue.

It seems like there’s little to cheer about lately. Corporations are diminishing your health care, consumer prices are soaring, the boss tells you the intern – still in diapers – is smarter than you and will do your job twice as good for half as much.

I’m just saying work is hard and stressful and eventually, we all need a break.

Regardless of what you do to live thrive and survive, we all need to recharge our batteries.

How would you like to put your toes in the sand, crack a cold frosty and suddenly have a bunch of sea gulls crap on your head?

Hello Mr. Obama.

This is what it’s been like for the President all week.

His job is to run the country. Like him or hate him or not give a rat’s ass about him, that’s what he’s paid to do.

And the job is herculean. Just look at the economic score board: The economy is in the toilet. Our credit rating is worse than Sudan. Stocks are riding up and down like a hooker in East L.A.

Personally, my 401K is a submarine that has been scuttled like the final scene from a Hunt for Red October. There’s a 100 Russian soldiers in life rafts on my lawn all asking for sardines and vodka.

DATELINE: MARTHA’S VINEYARD

This is the wondrous and delightful backdrop for the Presidential vacation.

It’s a seaside village full of small town charm and upper echelon beauty.

It’s here that President Obama has taken his family for a little
R and R.

If this was a bag boy from Peoria, nobody would blink. If this was a muffler salesman from Michigan, nobody cares.

But the leader of the free world wants to chill and there’s a media  inquisition.

Many people are shouting from the rooftops that the President needs to get back to Washington D.C. and get to work.

Roll up your sleeves Mr. President. Get your nose to the grindstone, sir. In case you hadn’t noticed, I’m up to my ass in debt your presdiential-ness.

And then the morning news shows begin blasting images of the President coming out of a taffy store like a tourist. That’s followed by images of the President shanking balls on an exclusive golf course.

The President’s people argue that the President is always at work, even when we see him swinging a 9 iron and munching on funnel cakes.

“People don’t begrudge the President a little time off with his family,” his advisers tell a swarm of morning show hosts.

The President’s handler’s say the president is always working. Just because he goes into the village gift shop and buys a powerball ticket doesn’t mean he isn’t thinking about the debt ceiling.

The President’s people contend that the President is only a red phone and Marine 1 ride away from kicking ass and taking names.

I’m not sure how I feel about the President taking a vacation.

But I do know that a few days of vacation helps me come back to the job with a clear head.

My co-workers seem less perplexing, the boss less abrasive, the job less laborious.

So if vacation days work for me and you, wouldn’t it work for our leaders? And if it does work for them, then isn’t that what we all need right now, leaders who do a better job?

And if you are going to blast the President for chillaxing with his peeps, then do me a favor and bend Congress over the barrel and have your way with them.

These rat bastards are taking 5 weeks off. 5 WEEKS!

I’ve been with my company 15 years and don’t get 5 weeks.

And what are they vacationing from? From ruining the economy? From playing tug of war with my future?

These misfits are taking 5 weeks off. The President is taking 9 days.

I’m not sure I think that the President going on vacation with his wife and daughters is Armageddon but it sure has lit up the White House switchboard.

The reaction to political leaders taking vacation is very interesting.

“President Obama may want to hold off on taking too many vacation days because after the election, he’ll have more time off than he wants. — Kelly/Baltimore City

Yes!! The President deserves a vacation, the state of the economy won’t change in 2 weeks. How many of us would give up our own vacations because of our work situation (NOT MANY). This man is running the country for goodness sake not managing a video store, he needs this break, anyone in his place would do the same thing, HELLO!!! people George Bush! — Danny (Pasadena)