My Heart Goes Out to the Obama Family
posted at 4:19 pm on August 27, 2009 by Howard Portnoy
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Life can be cruel. I swear, some people just can’t cut a break.
I just read this gripping report in USA Today that I thought it incumbent upon me to share. Warning: Have your tissue box handy.
According to the paper, the president’s vacation — brace yourself — “has been a bit of a gyp.”
First, he had to interrupt his R&R to renominate Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Then he got the bad news about his friend Ted Kennedy. [...]
USA TODAY’s Rich Wolf, on Martha’s Vineyard, reports that the president and First Lady Michelle Obama will interrupt their stay on the island to head to Boston tomorrow night.
Is there no God in heaven?!! The poor man takes him family on a vacation, and a heartless country just won’t leave him alone. Poor little Barack. Poor little Michelle. Poor little Obama kiddies . . . and Bo.
But wait. There’s good news too. “Deputy White House Press Secretary Bill Burton told reporters traveling with the president that Obama will be taking a few more days off once he returns to Washington next week.”
What a relief for little Barack and little Michelle and . . . .
Cross-posted at Zombie Contentions
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Well, it is pretty hard on a narcissist when his popularity plummets….
cthulhu on August 27, 2009 at 4:34 PM
Well, he’s taking the right approach to fixing this. He’s going to stay off TV for a few more days.
Daggett on August 27, 2009 at 4:39 PM
By the way, a similar expression, “My heart bleeds for Obama,” will take on a whole new meaning if Obamacare passes.
Daggett on August 27, 2009 at 4:51 PM
Nicely put, Daggett!
HowardPortnoy on August 27, 2009 at 4:52 PM
Come on man…
Theworldisnotenough on August 27, 2009 at 5:22 PM
No he won’t, he’ll be broadcast around the world for the eulogy for Teddy on Saturday.
Sorry to burst you bubble.
Knucklehead on August 27, 2009 at 5:43 PM
Do you honestly think he would do something as crass as talk politics in his eulogy? I’m just asking — I don’t know that I’d anything past him. I think he may mention that this was TK’s baby, but to say any more than that is political suicide. Think about it: A guy committing suicide at a funeral!
HowardPortnoy on August 27, 2009 at 5:51 PM
I don’t think he’ll be able to resist.
hachiban on August 27, 2009 at 6:53 PM
Obama should take a long vacation, really long. Take a month or two, or what the heck, 42 months! He deserves it.
conservativegrandma on August 27, 2009 at 6:58 PM
So, he needs a vacation from his vacation eh?
Must be some tough, bitter, clinging, wingnut crowds on Martha’s Vineyard…
RocketmanBob on August 27, 2009 at 7:35 PM
When he goes on vacation , does his teleprompter go with him?
macncheez on August 27, 2009 at 8:37 PM
Wait…I’m channeling a spirit of the future… this is what I see of Obama’s eulogy (I’m deleting the many “uhs” for clarity:
I’ve always said, and let me be perfectly clear on this, that Ted Kennedy represented the best this nation has to offer. Now some people out there say I should say nothing. Some even say he should have been — should have been — say — hang on — I haven’t gotten much sleep on my vacation — say he should have been hanged for some alleged crime in Chapstick, New Massachusetts. [long pause] In fact, some say I shouldn’t even deliver these personal, heartfelt — wait — go ahead — roll it up — heartfelt words. But I say, Mary had a little lamb, its fleece was white — okay, who did that? I want to know who did that.
…then the spirit goes silent…
Daggett on August 27, 2009 at 8:54 PM
Thanks for the laugh.
themediansib on August 28, 2009 at 6:29 AM
The only reason his polls have held at -8 is because he’s stayed off our televisions for most of the week. When he starts flapping his lying purple lips next week, he’ll get back to the negative double digits.
Key West Reader on August 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM
HowardPortnoy, great point about the vacation, but the Obama girls’ names are Sasha and Malia, not hard names to learn. All due respect, it dilutes our well-taken points when we conservatives look as though you’re making fun of less-popular names, ESPECIALLY those of children.
Sasha
and
Malia
Two pretty names, I dare say. Let’s use them from now on.
inviolet on August 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM
um, “as though we’re making fun”
inviolet on August 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM
inviolet: Solid point. That line has been stricken from the post.
Howard
HowardPortnoy on August 28, 2009 at 3:48 PM
let’s not skip any stones across that reflecting pool…
ericdijon on August 28, 2009 at 7:48 PM