It’s not entirely new, we’ve had numerous presidents who saw themselves as more akin to royalty than elected representatives of the people. President’s from Kennedy to Reagan have hob knobbed with the rich and famous staged elaborate parties and so forth, but there are some differences. Kennedy, for example, accepted no presidential salary and the Reagans accepted private donations rather than siphon the tax payer for their elaborate ways.
Sure we’ve had presidents that traveled extensively. Both Clinton and Bush were no strangers to Air Force one, but today is a different story entirely. Neither Clinton nor Bush traveled with such an elaborate and lengthy entourage. A great many of Bush’s travels took him to his home in Crawford, TX.
Here we have an administration so aloof and hypocritical we are sometimes amazed with the audacity of these people. In the midst of a great recession, exacerbated by policies which discourage investment and recovery, in the midst of belt tightening from cost to cost we have an administration downing tax payer money like a teenager with their parent’s credit card. As Shirley Sherrod pointed out in the overlooked portion of that now infamous video, the federal government is hiring and no one is ever fired.
As it turns out, Obama’s policies aren’t limited to 20th century era spending programs, designed to buy votes and little else. It seems the president us perfectly happy to spend his bosses money for personal pleasures as well. How anyone but the most virulent Obama apologist can justify this half million dollar trip to Spain is beyond comprehension. At the very least the presidential families actions are in poor taste, and at worse they are criminal. Under whose authority does the president operate anyway. Can anyone else in America spend their employer’s money with such reckless abandon without being held accountable. Is any objectionable person on Earth surprise that virtually no one in this administration (7%) as any business experience? Is this what the 60 million sheep who voted for this man hoping for when they think of the hope they were promised. Truly we hope it does not get worse. Though this latest vacation (Mane, Florida, Europe) and the frequent golf trips that far exceed Bush or Clinton’s 8 years in office (without a peep from the apologists) are a reflection of Obama’s complete lack of leadership ability, we can take solace in the fact that it has kept him out of Washington for a time. Any president of the last 50 years would be a vast improvement over the collection of stooges who now occupy the White House.
