Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2009
| Subscribe to Newser's RSS feeds RSS | Follow Newser on Twitter Twitter


 OPINION 
10

Places the Obamas Should Visit Instead of the Vineyard

New Orleans or Baltimore could use a presidential visit

Share

(Newser) – Though he grants that the president may just want some peace and quiet from his upcoming vacation to Martha’s Vineyard, Max Linsky is disappointed by the choice “for a president keenly aware of symbolism,” he writes for the Stimulist. He suggests alternatives:

  • California. The state’s budget debacle just forced it to slash welfare, health care, and college aid. Clearly, it needs tourism revenue, and the first family could set a good example.

  • Baltimore. The city’s economic woes have, unsurprisingly, not been helped by the national recession. It, too, could use the boost of a presidential visit.
  • New Orleans. Perhaps a city that’s been struck by a bona-fide disaster (and not a man-made economic one) deserves the Obamas’ attention the most.
  • Texas. A recent Gallup poll says Texas is split pretty evenly between support for Republicans and Democrats. Maybe Obama could sow some goodwill for upcoming electoral contests?

President Barack Obama arrives on the South Lawn of the White House with first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia, left, and Sasha in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009.
President Barack Obama arrives on the South Lawn of the White House with first lady Michelle Obama and their daughters Malia, left, and Sasha in Washington, Sunday, July 19, 2009.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
President Barack Obama departs the South Lawn of the White House with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009.
President Barack Obama departs the South Lawn of the White House with first lady Michelle Obama and daughters Sasha and Malia in Washington, Saturday, Aug. 1, 2009.   (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)
« Prev« Prev | Next »Next » Slideshow
OFF THE GRID
11.24.09
Murdoch and Microsoft: The Mice Are Trying to Roar
11.23.09
Books Are Bad for You
10 comments
VIEWING:
 
Timinator2K
Aug 4, 09 7:30 PM CDT
Scenic and Happenin' Detroit?! Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
-1
IN RESPONSE:
northeast
Aug 5, 09 5:38 AM CDT
Do you WANT to get the dude shot?
Vote up! Vote down!
+1
kokuaguy
Aug 4, 09 7:50 PM CDT
Vacations are about families. If this is what the family agreed upon then stop the bitching and let them enjoy it. The only time I was ever pissed at Krugman was when he wrote that snide piece when the Obamas came to Hawaii at Christmas. One of the reasons they came is because of the memorial service for his Grandma "Toots." Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
0
Amber
Aug 4, 09 8:25 PM CDT
Considering the state of emotions from the fringe element wishing to do harm to President Obama and the face that the Secret Service knows Martha’s Vineyard very well due to it's past use as a vacation spot for a sitting President I think it is a good as well as logical choice. Limited access by the many while allowing privacy the family very well needs from time to time. More than that, he is an adult, leader of the free world, a sitting President and can make his own choices on where to go for a break. The choice in the end is his and his families not some pundant who wants to make a name or draw attention to his or her on self rightious spewing . Reply
Vote up! Vote down!
+6
IN RESPONSE:
kokuaguy
Aug 4, 09 9:44 PM CDT
Excellent post, Amber. You always take the time to think of the points I wish I had made. One little suggestion -- maybe it's a typo but I've see others use "pundant" when they mean "pundit". Old English teachers never die, we just misplace our red pencils." ; ^)
Vote up! Vote down!
-1

View all 10 comments »

LEAVE A
COMMENT Comment Policy
Facebook ConnectPost this comment to Facebook?

After connecting you will have the option to post your comment on your Facebook profile.

 

Related Newser Stories

37 Stories

who let the paranoids out?

46 Years After Kennedy, the Virus of Hate Is Back

Republican Rep. Louie Gohmert panders to dangerous paranoids

Nov 21, 09 9:08 AM CST
(Newser) - Tomorrow’s 46th anniversary of the Kennedy assassination provides an occasion for Mark Warren to examine “the paranoid strain in the American polity” that has reasserted itself since the election of President Obama, and finds in a Texas Republican congressman just the sort of “skinhead reprobate” whose demagoguery... More »

MORE ABOUT:
Texas • John F. Kennedy • assassination • Louie Gohmert • President Obama • birther • skinhead

 9-Year-Old to Obama: 
 'Why Do People 
 Hate You?' 

Replies prez: 'Some of it is just what's called politics.'

Oct 15, 09 9:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - President Obama took some heat today in New Orleans for continued slow progress in rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina, but perhaps the most pointed question he got all day came from a 9-year-old. “Why do people hate you?” Tyren Scott asked Obama, microphone in hand, during a public meeting. “... More »

MORE ABOUT:
politics • New Orleans • President Obama • hate

(AP) - The world's oldest known person has died in Los Angeles at age 115. Gertrude Baines died today at a hospital, probably of a heart attack; an autopsy will determine the exact cause. Baines was born in 1894 in Shellman, Ga., and she got a letter from President Obama on her... More »

MORE ABOUT:
California • Georgia • Los Angeles • old age • President Obama • Gertrude Baines • oldest person

37 Stories


Politics  •  Opinion 
TwitterFollow @NewserPolitics on Twitter

 
California • Texas • New Orleans • vacation • Baltimore • President Obama • Martha's Vineyard

from our news partners