Former President Obama on another vacation!

[Value Buy]

Former President Obama, is on another vacation, this time in Palm Springs California, and not Hawaii.
Three weeks from his winter vacation, and first day of his government pension!

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obamas-arrive-in-california-for-rain-delayed-vacation/ar-AAm4S0N?li=BBnb7Kz

I thought they were staying in D.C. because they wanted the girls to stay in school there.


P.S.
Wonder if Donald offered his Palm Beach estate to them for a couple of weeks of relaxation at the new winter White House?
Nice to say former President Obama! 

[Deleted]

Jan 21, 2017 10:15:11 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Former President Obama, is on another vacation, this time in Palm Springs California, and not Hawaii.
Three weeks from his winter vacation, and first day of his government pension!

www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/obamas-arrive-in-california-for-rain-delayed-vacation/ar-AAm4S0N?li=BBnb7Kz

I thought they were staying in D.C. because they wanted the girls to stay in school there.


P.S.
Wonder if Donald offered his Palm Beach estate to them for a couple of weeks of relaxation at the new winter White House?
Nice to say former President Obama! 

Seems to just flow so smoothly.  Former President Obama! 

[billisonboard]

Sad.

[swamp]

Where would you have liked him to go?

He doesn't have a job to go to.

[Value Buy]

Jan 21, 2017 13:37:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

Where would you have liked him to go?

He doesn't have a job to go to.

I thought he loved Hawaii.

swamp, he does deserve a well deserved vacation. Regardless of my political feelings, eight years in that job is a killer emotional job.
It takes a very special person to do it.
Few can do it.
Fewer, can do it correctly.
History will decide whether he was one of the "fewer".
I acknowledge he did an adequate job for eight years.
It was much better than I had expected from him.

I hope most here will not consider this a negative response.......

[djAdvocate]

Jan 21, 2017 13:52:50 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 21, 2017 13:37:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

Where would you have liked him to go?

He doesn't have a job to go to.

I thought he loved Hawaii.

swamp, he does deserve a well deserved vacation. Regardless of my political feelings, eight years in that job is a killer emotional job.
It takes a very special person to do it.
Few can do it.
Fewer, can do it correctly.
History will decide whether he was one of the "fewer".
I acknowledge he did an adequate job for eight years.
It was much better than I had expected from him.

I hope most here will not consider this a negative response.......

on the contrary.  i hear it as effusive praise, relatively speaking.

[Value Buy]

Jan 21, 2017 13:54:37 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

Jan 21, 2017 13:52:50 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

I thought he loved Hawaii.

swamp, he does deserve a well deserved vacation. Regardless of my political feelings, eight years in that job is a killer emotional job.
It takes a very special person to do it.
Few can do it.
Fewer, can do it correctly.
History will decide whether he was one of the "fewer".
I acknowledge he did an adequate job for eight years.
It was much better than I had expected from him.

I hope most here will not consider this a negative response.......

on the contrary.  i hear it as effusive praise, relatively speaking.

I will take "relatively speaking" as an "undecided".
In four years, would you say Trump did an adequate job, if his performance was much higher than you anticipate, would you consider it effusive praise, or an outstanding performance based on the your present critique of him? 

[swamp]

Jan 21, 2017 13:52:50 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 21, 2017 13:37:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

Where would you have liked him to go?

He doesn't have a job to go to.

I thought he loved Hawaii.

swamp, he does deserve a well deserved vacation. Regardless of my political feelings, eight years in that job is a killer emotional job.
It takes a very special person to do it.
Few can do it.
Fewer, can do it correctly.
History will decide whether he was one of the "fewer".
I acknowledge he did an adequate job for eight years.
It was much better than I had expected from him.

I hope most here will not consider this a negative response.......

I love the Bahamas.  That doesn't mean I want to go there EVERY vacation. 

[Tennesseer]

Jan 21, 2017 13:52:50 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 21, 2017 13:37:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

Where would you have liked him to go?

He doesn't have a job to go to.

I thought he loved Hawaii.

swamp, he does deserve a well deserved vacation. Regardless of my political feelings, eight years in that job is a killer emotional job.
It takes a very special person to do it.
Few can do it.
Fewer, can do it correctly.
History will decide whether he was one of the "fewer".
I acknowledge he did an adequate job for eight years.
It was much better than I had expected from him.

I hope most here will not consider this a negative response.......

Why go to Hawaii when the just returned from Hawaii 19 days ago.

As for being in Palm Springs, it's a lot closer to his younger daughter's school than Hawaii, yes? And I imagine his daughter brought her school work with her. I know when my dad took us out of school so he could go on vacation, school work assignments were given us by our teachers to complete while we were away and turn into them when we returned home.

[Opti]

Jan 21, 2017 13:37:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

Where would you have liked him to go?

He doesn't have a job to go to.

I think its fairly common to take a vacation between jobs. Especially if you haven't picked your next one yet.

[chiver78]

Jan 21, 2017 13:52:50 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 21, 2017 13:37:19 GMT -5 swamp said:

Where would you have liked him to go?

He doesn't have a job to go to.

I thought he loved Hawaii.

swamp, he does deserve a well deserved vacation. Regardless of my political feelings, eight years in that job is a killer emotional job.
It takes a very special person to do it.
Few can do it.
Fewer, can do it correctly.
History will decide whether he was one of the "fewer".
I acknowledge he did an adequate job for eight years.
It was much better than I had expected from him.

I hope most here will not consider this a negative response.......

I liked the rest of your comment. he loves Hawaii because it's home, he grew up there. for a regular break during your job, familiarity on vacation is good. to completely unwind after a mentally taxing 8 years? I'm not surprised he wanted to go somewhere completely different. 

[djAdvocate]

Jan 21, 2017 14:05:48 GMT -5 Value Buy said:

Jan 21, 2017 13:54:37 GMT -5 djAdvocate said:

on the contrary.  i hear it as effusive praise, relatively speaking.

I will take "relatively speaking" as an "undecided".
In four years, would you say Trump did an adequate job, if his performance was much higher than you anticipate, would you consider it effusive praise, or an outstanding performance based on the your present critique of him? 

i will never say half of what you just did.

part of the reason is that having studied what historians tend to say, you kind of know what they will say before they say it.
they have a set of criteria.  for example, one of them is the ability to pass landmark legislation that you champion.  a good
example from the Bush administration was privatizing Social Security, like he tried to do in 2005.  that went very well for him. 

[zibazinski]

I'm glad he's on vacation. Bye.

[djAdvocate]

Jan 21, 2017 21:34:11 GMT -5 zibazinski said:

I'm glad he's on vacation. Bye.

i felt the same way whenever Bush went on vacation.  don't know why so many of my fellow liberals complained about it.

[busymom]

After 8 years, with all of the carp he put up with, I figure he & the family can vacation anywhere they want. I'm sure it's a luxury to get to sleep in with THAT job.

[Value Buy]

Jan 22, 2017 13:33:34 GMT -5 busymom said:

After 8 years, with all of the carp he put up with, I figure he & the family can vacation anywhere they want. I'm sure it's a luxury to get to sleep in with THAT job.

I imagine "sleep in" was never part of the equation after Friday.
After 8 years in the Presidency, you cannot turn your switch off on day one of retirement.

[countrygirl2]

Well Trump has been in 10 days and already taking a vacation. The stress must be getting to the thin skinned individual.