The movement against health care reform has identified a new enemy -- Martha's Vineyard. ABC News reports that a new series of ads by Conservatives for Patients Rights is set to launch next week, criticizing President Obama's family vacation to the Massachusetts island while reform is on the table.
"The beach is nice this time of year," the ad states, before going on to suggest that the result of the Democratic plan will be a ballooning deficit and a tax hike on everything from income to soda. The ad closes by saying that, on his return from vacation, Obama should drop the public-option from his reform plan.
Of course, Obama is not the only president to step away from the White House for a break (though doing so doesn't necessarily mean leaving work behind). Reuters reports that over his eight years in office, George W. Bush spent a combined 977 days at either Camp David or his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
Obama's health care plan will be written by a committee whose head says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that hasn't read it and whose members will be exempt from it, signed by a president who is a closet smoker, funded by a treasury chief who did not pay his taxes, overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that is nearly broke. Great role models.
What could possibly go wrong?
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sandsnnydz
2:22PM Aug 21st 2009
I wonder if the Obamas are having Cindy Sheehan over for lobster dinner?
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WADE....
5:18PM Aug 21st 2009
No Death Panels in Government Run Health Care ???…Here’s the video…
The State of Oregon refused to pay for a woman’s cancer treatment, instead telling her they’d pay for assisted suicide CAUSE IT'S CHEAPER !...
If Obama works on his vacation he'll be doing something he doesn't do in the Whitehouse. I guess there's a first time for everything.
I sure hope he doesn't get all "wee-wee'd up" when the protestors show up.
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Cleetus Awreetus
8:37PM Aug 21st 2009
Looks like the astroturf movement is out in force on this one. Where was all of this angst at when W took the most vacation time of any sitting president ......ever. He even outdid the Ultimate lazy bum clown, Reagan, in this respect. The fool was "clearing brush" when he chose to ignore a very strongly worded warning about the upcoming attacks in August of 2001. Yeah, throw your fake a$$ hissy fits you soulless cretins, it's what you do best.....besides lying.
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cruisedoc
9:13PM Aug 21st 2009
This democrat truely hopes he has a nice rest and doesn't work on vacation. Everything he works on turns out to be what is not right for America.
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revlongboneee
9:30PM Aug 21st 2009
clitus i think you have sniffed barracks feces stained panties to the point of intoxication. now back to the corner where you can serve the only purpose you have in life which is sniffing and licking barracks panties.
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jklapper
12:56PM Aug 21st 2009
Would the anti-everything idiot herders stop tossing out smoke and mirrors to scare people and start coming up with actual IDEAS!?!?!?! WTF does the President taking his family to the beach have to do with Health Care Reform? NOTHING!
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hdgreen
9:03PM Aug 21st 2009
Well Klapp, if his tax payed $100k romantic dinner to NY, in the Air Force One jet with helocopters at side, blasting jet fuel over our country as he preaches about banning non fuel efficient vehicles doesn't contradict himself - I don't know WTF does. By the way, Im not a big fan of the lazy fu_cks who don't even make an effort to finding a job, only to sit around waiting for Obama hand outs on my expense.
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cruisedoc
9:32PM Aug 21st 2009
I'll explain it to you. My personal feelings on the issue are my own, however, I think this is the logic: We are in crisis mode. We are contemplating a gov't takeover of about 20% of our economy. It will have profound consequences on all Americans. We have a half baked (at best) pie that will soon be rammed down our throats. It needs A LOT of work and there isn't much time at all to do it (by the administrations schedule). I don't think it is unreasonable for Americans to expect our president to stay on the job during this critical time. A working vacation at Camp David would be smarter and more palitable to Americans. A $25 million mansion at the beach and the associated tax payer costs is just more poor judgement (and even more political suicide). 2.5 million jobs have been lost since he took office with promises of jobs. His people are hurting, with many up at night worrying how they will feed their families, while he goes off on a lavish beach trip on their dime. Get it?
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Mr. Serene
1:08PM Aug 21st 2009
The President is a family man. Like millions of Americans he is taking his family on a vacation before school starts for his daughters. Granted it is not a trailer park, but since when do we allow our Presidents to take vacations which endanger their safety? Like all modern American Presidents, it will be working vacation. I hope he does get some R&R though, so he can come back to DC and kick some "Party of No" Republican butt with great vigor.
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ProPalin
1:59PM Aug 21st 2009
Oh right,Serene.
Republicans = Party of No Democraps = Party of No Common Sense
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Daryl
4:36PM Aug 21st 2009
Mr. Serene 1:08PM Aug 21st 2009 The President is a family man. Like millions of Americans he is taking his family on a vacation before school starts for his daughters. .............................................................................. what are you talking about, i havent had a vacation in years,im too busy paying taxes so people like yourself can live in your own little private wonderland Alice.
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Mr. Serene
4:55PM Aug 21st 2009
It is never very difficult to get a rise out of you poor pathetic rightwingers. Yeah, Republicans have modelled common sense for our Nation. That is why we are in the political and economic mess we are in. As for your latest victim status or defense, as in I am the only one in America who works, pay taxes, and now never takes a vacation, please you right of center clowns were either asleep at the wheel for the past 8 years or the biggest suckers in the world for lies and fear mongering. Enough with all of your snide comments and posturing. You are and were dumber than dumb supporting the Republican agenda now and in the past and even if 75% of Americans agreed with you, you would still be dumber than dumb.
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Truth
5:15PM Aug 21st 2009
Serenity Now,
Calling names, insulting people, lying whenever you can get by with it. What happened to your serenity, did you look at the polls? LMAO!!!!
Aren't you the leftist hypocrite attacking other posters for calling names and using insults? Why yes you are!
You're the asshole who criticizes people for speaking their mind, all the while you're shooting your stupid mouth off.
You don't have the slightest integrity, and won't even admit that Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, Obama, Alinsky, and the democratic leadership are MARXISTS when anyone with a brain bigger than a fruit fly can see it. Oh, thats right. Yours is smaller than a fruit fly. Sorry.
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Mr. Serene
6:42PM Aug 21st 2009
Hey, Truth with small letters and an even smaller mind! I see you are still in form, you mudslinging bottom feeder you. So your oh so tired mantra of labelling everyone you don't like a "Marxist" or commie isn't name calling? Not to worry, we are all laughing up a storm about you here in Chicago.
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matthewqmiller
9:00PM Aug 21st 2009
it isnt republican butts he has to kick, it is democrat butts, if he can just get his own party to agree on something the republicans do not matter in the least. if the president was as smart as we are all told he is constantly he would just ignore and marginalize the republicans, but no he gives them the bully pulpit. nomore town hall meetings onhealth care just get it done your consensus came with your election do not need to keep rebuilding it just do the damn job democrats