So President Obama is coming to Florida.
I wish he wouldn’t.
Look, I’ve lost jobs over my writings about Obama when he was running for president. I’ve supported the guy from the git-go. But now, I just want him to go. I mean, go — as in not come to Florida on a two-day mini-break in August in the first place.
I don’t want him to come because it’s just insultingly clear that he’s only coming because so many people bitched and moaned about him going up to Maine, etc.
Obama!!! Frickin’ Man Up!!!!
Who cares what people say about where you vacation? Sheesh, man. You’re the President. You’re a man. No one is ever going to be happy with any decision you make. People who once loved you are going to hate you and perhaps even vice versa. Just deal with it. FOCUS, MAN. Focus on your job.
And, honestly, I don’t even think you should be taking a vacation in the first place. I don’t think I’ve had a vacation in over a decade — I’m not proud of that fact, it’s just that I’ve been dealing with crises for over 10 years — a marriage gone south, a divorce, a few moves, starting my own business, getting back on solid ground after a post-divorce restructuring of my life that swept through my financial house like a hurricane, and myriad other little and great challenges — so um, I stuck with it and worked. And I’m still working.
Um, hello? Our country is in CRISIS. Fuggedabout a vacation. Frickin’ hole up in that Oval Office, throw some sleeping bags on the floor for Michelle and the kids, and WORK YOUR BUTT OFF. You can vacation in a couple of years!!!!!
Of course, if you don’t vacation, all the tourism industry will complain that you’re not supporting tourism-dependent economy, so really, you can’t win no matter what you do … .
But my point is, no matter what you do — vacation, work through your vacation, yada, yada, do not, ever, under any circumstances REACT instead of ACT. Reaction is having your wife criticized for promoting tourism in Florida and then changing your own vacation plans because people criticize you and said wife for vacationing anywhere else.
Action is sticking with your original plan and not being so subject to the whims and whimsy of the braying donkeys.
They bray and they bray … and they will always bray.
You? You need to stay … in Maine or Martha’s Vineyard or wherever else you want to go. But don’t come to Florida. We don’t need the crumbs of your vacation days and we don’t need the mercy-trip.