Why, exactly, is borrowing or renting someone’s house more elitist than owning one? Why is Martha’s Vineyard snobbier than Kennebunkport, Hyannis Port or even a private Texas ranch? I don’t know, but that’s what everyone said, and thus were the Clintons forced to take a pretend “vacation” in Jackson Hole, Wyo. During this “vacation,” they had to provide photo opportunities to the press to prove that they really were normal Americans — which, of course, they were not. Once elected, no president is ever a normal American again…

Let the Obama family go on vacation. Let them go wherever they want. Let them do whatever they want. Let the president work out, play basketball, whatever. Let the first lady read a good novel and have lunch with whomever she pleases. Let’s not talk about them for a few weeks. This is what mid-August is for: Why do we need to think about them when we’re on vacation, too?