President Obama will be spending 10 days in Martha’s Vineyard at a time when millions of Americans can’t find work. Although the Commander-in-Chief is most certainly entitled to a vacation, flying off to the Vineyard when the public is losing faith in Washington’s ability to fix the nation’s economic problems, and with people anxious about their futures seems to be a good idea....
>>>President Obama will be spending 10 days in Martha’s Vineyard at a time when millions of Americans can’t find work. Although the Commander-in-Chief is most certainly entitled to a vacation, flying off to the Vineyard when the public is losing faith in Washington’s ability to fix the nation’s economic problems, and with people anxious about their futures seems to be a good idea.
What makes it is that even without leaving the White House grounds, the Obama family have access to five full-time chefs, a tennis court, a bowling alley, a swimming pool, a jogging trail, a putting green and a movie theater that shows first-run films on demand.
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