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Why is Obama returning to Washington?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:54 pm
Oh shite gonna get real up in this beotch. This has to be something important for Odrama to cut the golf short.
The president is expected to return to the White House on Sunday, but officials won't say why Obama is taking the unusual, and costly, trip back to Washington. He's expected to return to Martha's Vineyard, where he's been vacationing, on Tuesday.
Speculation has circled around whether Obama might make an announcement of executive actions he's taking on immigration reform, or a surprise visit from a foreign leader.
But the White House is "not anticipating a major announcement on immigration when the president is in Washington," spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters traveling with Obama in Massachusetts.
Schultz did say that Obama will be meeting with Vice President Biden while he's back in Washington. And Obama will be without both press secretary Josh Earnest, who is out on paternity leave, and Schultz, Earnest's top deputy, while in the nation's capital.
"Eric Schultz is staying," the spokesman quipped, dipping into the third person.
Adding more mystery to the topic, Schultz said the administration did not "anticipate any major significant news developments out of Washington those few days."
But if the president is only coming back to meet with staff face-to-face, it could invite questions about wasting taxpayer dollars.
According to Air Force documents obtained Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, the roundtrip travel expenses for the president's 2013 vacation to Martha's Vineyard totaled $1,164,268.
A return to Washington merely to meet with staff would also seem to undercut assurances offered by the White House that the president is fully operational, even when vacationing away from the capital.
Asked about partisan criticism of the vacation last Friday, Schultz noted Obama "travels with a wide array of communications equipment, and we also travel with a staff that allows us to have robust operational capabilities."
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The president is expected to return to the White House on Sunday, but officials won't say why Obama is taking the unusual, and costly, trip back to Washington. He's expected to return to Martha's Vineyard, where he's been vacationing, on Tuesday.
Speculation has circled around whether Obama might make an announcement of executive actions he's taking on immigration reform, or a surprise visit from a foreign leader.
But the White House is "not anticipating a major announcement on immigration when the president is in Washington," spokesman Eric Schultz told reporters traveling with Obama in Massachusetts.
Schultz did say that Obama will be meeting with Vice President Biden while he's back in Washington. And Obama will be without both press secretary Josh Earnest, who is out on paternity leave, and Schultz, Earnest's top deputy, while in the nation's capital.
"Eric Schultz is staying," the spokesman quipped, dipping into the third person.
Adding more mystery to the topic, Schultz said the administration did not "anticipate any major significant news developments out of Washington those few days."
But if the president is only coming back to meet with staff face-to-face, it could invite questions about wasting taxpayer dollars.
According to Air Force documents obtained Judicial Watch, a conservative watchdog group, the roundtrip travel expenses for the president's 2013 vacation to Martha's Vineyard totaled $1,164,268.
A return to Washington merely to meet with staff would also seem to undercut assurances offered by the White House that the president is fully operational, even when vacationing away from the capital.
Asked about partisan criticism of the vacation last Friday, Schultz noted Obama "travels with a wide array of communications equipment, and we also travel with a staff that allows us to have robust operational capabilities."
LINK
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:57 pm to Jbird
I'm guessing that there is a fund raiser to attend.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 9:59 pm to Jbird
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This post was edited on 3/6/21 at 8:47 am
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:00 pm to Mr.Perfect
quote:Nope Earnest said Odrama is a no go on the challenge, one of those deep questions from the press.
Ice bucket challenge
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:01 pm to Jbird
Wants to get away from Michelle for a few days which would be a real vacation.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:04 pm to Jbird
We knew this last Friday morning.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:09 pm to NHTIGER
quote:Well what's the reason to belch a shite ton of carbon into the air to get back to DC then return to the golf courses at Martha's Vineyard?
We knew this last Friday morning.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:13 pm to Jbird
quote:
And Obama will be without both press secretary Josh Earnest, who is out on paternity leave
Oh Jesus Christ. Paternity leave?
Turn in your man card Earnest
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:14 pm to GregMaddux
quote:Nope that's the one Tony Rezko bought him in Chicago.
His house is there
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:16 pm to Jbird
quote:
quote:
We knew this last Friday morning.
Well what's the reason to belch a shite ton of carbon into the air to get back to DC then return to the golf courses at Martha's Vineyard?
I was simply telling you that this was a pre-planned return trip, announced before he even left for Massachusetts. And I did so, not to diss you, but to inform others that it was pre-planned, and thus less likely to be based on events of the past 5 or 6 days, anywhere in the world.
LINK
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:18 pm to deltaland
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Oh Jesus Christ. Paternity leave?
Turn in your man card Earnest
I took a week paternity leave and a week pto when my son was born. What's wrong with wanting to be there during the first moments of your child's life?
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:21 pm to NHTIGER
Again NH what is so important?
Even so, crises rarely have forced Obama to cancel a vacation. His advisers often appear to take pride in resisting calls from Republicans for the president to return to Washington or from fellow Democrats nervous about the appearance of Obama either vacationing or tending to what some may consider less urgent matters.
In 2009, Obama remained on vacation in his native of Hawaii after a man aboard a Detroit-bound flight tried to detonate a bomb on Christmas. Obama also pressed on with Martha's Vineyard vacations in 2010 as rebels in Libya were on the verge of ousting their government, and last year when Egypt's military overthrew the country's first democratically elected leader.
Even so, crises rarely have forced Obama to cancel a vacation. His advisers often appear to take pride in resisting calls from Republicans for the president to return to Washington or from fellow Democrats nervous about the appearance of Obama either vacationing or tending to what some may consider less urgent matters.
In 2009, Obama remained on vacation in his native of Hawaii after a man aboard a Detroit-bound flight tried to detonate a bomb on Christmas. Obama also pressed on with Martha's Vineyard vacations in 2010 as rebels in Libya were on the verge of ousting their government, and last year when Egypt's military overthrew the country's first democratically elected leader.
Posted on 8/13/14 at 10:58 pm to Jbird
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Again NH what is so important?
Let me try this again.
Like everyone else, I have no idea whatsoever what the purpose might be (though I could take a pretty good guess).
Your thread was opened tonight, August 13th, and there is nothing in either your OP or the linked story that tells the reader that the mid-vacation return trip to Washington was announced on August 6th, a full week earlier (my previous link had a reference to Aug.8th, but below is one from the Martha's Vineyard Times dated August 6th saying "On Sunday, August 17, the President will return to Washington, D.C., to attend meetings at the White House. He will return to the Vineyard on Tuesday, August 19. If any reader did not know that it was pre-planned, it could easily lead to that reader speculating that events of the last day or two had prompted the brief return. Justin Sink of The Hill (your link) was deficient in not including that fact in his news article.
(That "pretty good guess" I referred to above is that it is entirely symbolic in nature, intended to assure the citizens that he's being hands-on, on-the-scene, in-the-moment, fingers-on-the-pulse, eye-to-eye in the Oval Office, etc, etc, etc.)
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Posted on 8/13/14 at 11:09 pm to Jbird
He needs to get his arse to Missouri
This post was edited on 8/13/14 at 11:11 pm
Posted on 8/14/14 at 6:36 am to LSUTigersVCURams
He left his favorite putter; he has 2 tee times this weekend with $5 Nassaus so he has to be on his game.
Posted on 8/14/14 at 6:47 am to Jbird
There is a new intern at the WH.
Moochell ain't home.
Channel his inner Bill.
Profit.
Moochell ain't home.
Channel his inner Bill.
Profit.
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