Clambaker-in-chief: Obama scorched for vacations He fiddles while Middle East burns, says watchdog Presidential vacations have a way of rubbing people the wrong way, but the timing of President Obama’s latest lavish getaway has raised more than a few eyebrows. With Ebola running loose on the African continent, with a terrorist group beheading Christians in Iraq and threatening to take over the country, with a border crisis at home and race riots in the streets of suburban St. Louis, it seems like the world is spinning out of control at the same time the Obamas are relaxing at a hidden hideaway on Martha’s Vineyard. And people are taking notice. “The president has many fans on the island, but we’re told even some of Obama’s most ardent supporters are questioning the wisdom of this summer’s sojourn as war roils Gaza and a wave of families and children are crossing the southwestern U.S. border illegally,” reported the Boston Globe. White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest said, unlike most trips to Martha’s Vinyard, this one will actually be a “working” vacation, and Obama has already made one trip back to Washington in between trips to the beach and the golf course to talk about the renewed war in Iraq. One watchdog group that has taken an in-depth look at presidential vacations through the decades is Washington, D.C.-based Judicial Watch. The group has filed Freedom of Information lawsuits to obtain financial records that show Obama’s travel costs – sitting at more than $44 million as of March 2014 – have now exceeded that of any other presidency. “Obama is fiddling while the Middle East burns,” Jill Ferrell, spokeswoman for Judicial Watch, told WND. “It’s not terribly reassuring, that he interrupts his golf game (to tend to the war in Iraq).” Judicial Watch has been following the Obama travel story since the infamous “New York Date Night” shortly after his first election. That tab for the evening was estimated at $72,000. “It made us begin to take notice. And now everything that can be known through the Freedom of Information Act is known and we are still getting rolling production from the Department of Defense as well as Secret Service, as additional documents will be forthcoming as part of Judicial Watch’s ongoing investigation,” Ferrell said. Read more at wnd/2014/08/clambaker-in-chief-obama-scorched-for-vacations/#3SxjgROOTZ1fJjD5.99
Posted on: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 21:00:00 +0000
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