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03 Jul 2012 05:35 PM   |   1892 clicks   |   Talking Points Memo
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downstairs    [TotalFark]  
Billions? Please. Martha's Vineyard is most likely very easy to secure, and not that far from DC.

Yes, a President's vacation costs a lot to orchastrate... but its not that crazy.

03 Jul 2012 03:12 PM
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Pocket Ninja    [TotalFark]  
This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link

03 Jul 2012 03:18 PM
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Makh    [TotalFark]  
Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

03 Jul 2012 03:18 PM
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gilgigamesh    [TotalFark]  
Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

My thoughts exactly.

My guess? "Obama is just grandstanding during an election year with transparent attempt to seem like an everyman! Because of the economic depression HE created, most of us can't even contemplate TAKING a vacation, let alone choose to forego one, like some rich elitist!"

03 Jul 2012 03:26 PM
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Grand_Moff_Joseph    [TotalFark]  
gilgigamesh: Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

My thoughts exactly.

My guess? "Obama is just grandstanding during an election year with transparent attempt to seem like an everyman! Because of the economic depression HE created, most of us can't even contemplate TAKING a vacation, let alone choose to forego one, like some rich elitist!"


Stop doing the trolls' jobs for them...they'll start getting lazier. And the lazier they get, the less lulz for the rest of us.

:D

03 Jul 2012 03:41 PM
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BSABSVR     
Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

Real Americans take summer vacations. It's a tradition that is well known for people who were born here. Yet another example of how the Obama regime doesn't get joe and jane sixpack. Also, too: when you come from a culture where everyone is on welfare, how is a vacation different from Tuesday?

03 Jul 2012 03:51 PM
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kingoomieiii    [TotalFark]  
Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link


Holy.... shiat.

03 Jul 2012 03:59 PM
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FishyFred     
BSABSVR: Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

Real Americans take summer vacations. It's a tradition that is well known for people who were born here. Yet another example of how the Obama regime doesn't get joe and jane sixpack. Also, too: when you come from a culture where everyone is on welfare, how is a vacation different from Tuesday?


So you're saying you support teachers unions?

03 Jul 2012 04:04 PM
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TommyymmoT    [TotalFark]  
He probably just got tired of the bigger kids picking on him at camp.

03 Jul 2012 04:05 PM
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FishyFred     
downstairs: Billions? Please. Martha's Vineyard is most likely very easy to secure, and not that far from DC.

Yes, a President's vacation costs a lot to orchastrate... but its not that crazy.


Pretty sure the headline is a reference to his trip to India that assorted nutcases and Fox News said would cost $200 million per day.

03 Jul 2012 04:06 PM
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vernonFL    [TotalFark]  
It wouldn't look good to go on vacation when Colorado is on fire and Maryland DC Virginia W Va and Ohio don't have power.

03 Jul 2012 04:13 PM
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BillCo     
Dear President Obama,

Please take as much vacation time as you like. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You can spend the time packing up your stuff in the White House so that you will be ready to move out in January.

Sincerely,
BillCo

P.S. We will be checking the silverware.

03 Jul 2012 04:19 PM
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sno man    [TotalFark]  
Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link


I'm just going to swing out on a limb here but I'm gonna guess there isn't a corresponding page for the previous president?

03 Jul 2012 04:28 PM
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TommyymmoT    [TotalFark]  
BillCo: Dear President Obama,

Please take as much vacation time as you like. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You can spend the time packing up your stuff in the White House so that you will be ready to move out in January.

Sincerely,
BillCo

P.S. We will be checking the silverware.


Don't worry, the Disney themed cereal spoons left over from Bush will still be there.

03 Jul 2012 04:28 PM
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BSABSVR     
FishyFred: BSABSVR: Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

Real Americans take summer vacations. It's a tradition that is well known for people who were born here. Yet another example of how the Obama regime doesn't get joe and jane sixpack. Also, too: when you come from a culture where everyone is on welfare, how is a vacation different from Tuesday?

So you're saying you support teachers unions?


Let me rephrase: Real Americans take a week off or maybe two to drive past landmarks at 70 miles per hour or to go be miserable at a family reunion in Iowa. Maybe if you're lucky you get an afternoon at a beach and a lunch at a Steak-n-Shake during the week. But only if you're making good time.

03 Jul 2012 04:32 PM
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JerseyTim    [TotalFark]  
Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

Start here.

03 Jul 2012 05:09 PM
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Dinki    [TotalFark]  
Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link


I think I found out how you guys find these sites

Link

03 Jul 2012 05:14 PM
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Pincy     
Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link


Apparently, by the look of that website, the analysis was done in the mid 90s.

03 Jul 2012 05:37 PM
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Somacandra    [TotalFark]  
Pocket Ninja:

Wow. That site has an awful lot of stinky crap on it. And I say that as a guy who just changed a megadiaper entirely full of my daughter's feces. My favorite part is the disclaimer. Even my 2 year old knows when she's taken a ginormous crap and who's responsible for doing it. Ol' Colonel Bat Guano there, on the other hand, completely disavows any responsibility or authorship of anything on that site, including his blaming of radical Iraqi Muslims for the OKC Bombing.

/YARLY

03 Jul 2012 05:39 PM
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LockeOak     
Pincy: Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link

Apparently, by the look of that website, the analysis was done in the mid 90s.


www.strangecosmos.com

03 Jul 2012 05:40 PM
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Epoch_Zero    [TotalFark]  
TommyymmoT: BillCo: Dear President Obama,

Please take as much vacation time as you like. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You can spend the time packing up your stuff in the White House so that you will be ready to move out in January.

Sincerely,
BillCo

P.S. We will be checking the silverware.

Don't worry, the Disney themed cereal spoons left over from Bush will still be there.


W liked the ones that change color.
i.ebayimg.com
$10 Billion in tax payer money, but he just had to collect all three.

03 Jul 2012 05:42 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
downstairs: Billions? Please. Martha's Vineyard is most likely very easy to secure, and not that far from DC.

Yes, a President's vacation costs a lot to orchastrate... but its not that crazy.


So he's skipping his trip to Calcutta this year with his chief calligrapher in tow?

03 Jul 2012 05:44 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
Good, maybe he can use that money to spend it all on McRib sandwiches so McDonald's can finally decide to have that as a permanent menu item due to high demand.

03 Jul 2012 05:45 PM
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Raharu     
BillCo: Dear President Obama,

Please take as much vacation time as you like. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You can spend the time packing up your stuff in the White House so that you will be ready to move out in January.

Sincerely,
BillCo

P.S. We will be checking the silverware.


You sound tired Bill.

03 Jul 2012 05:46 PM
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Philip Francis Queeg     
coeyagi: downstairs: Billions? Please. Martha's Vineyard is most likely very easy to secure, and not that far from DC.

Yes, a President's vacation costs a lot to orchastrate... but its not that crazy.

So he's skipping his trip to Calcutta this year with his chief calligrapher in tow?


They are going to stay at the Waldorf and order room service instead.

03 Jul 2012 05:46 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

But it's not the Real America™ up there so why would they care?

03 Jul 2012 05:46 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
Philip Francis Queeg: coeyagi: downstairs: Billions? Please. Martha's Vineyard is most likely very easy to secure, and not that far from DC.

Yes, a President's vacation costs a lot to orchastrate... but its not that crazy.

So he's skipping his trip to Calcutta this year with his chief calligrapher in tow?

They are going to stay at the Waldorf and order room service instead.


Lobster Primavera and Poupon-brazed arugula for all!

03 Jul 2012 05:47 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
BillCo: Dear President Obama,

Please take as much vacation time as you like. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You can spend the time packing up your stuff in the White House so that you will be ready to move out in January.

Sincerely,
BillCo

P.S. We will be checking the silverware.


i.qkme.me

03 Jul 2012 05:47 PM
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tlchwi02     
coeyagi: But it's not the Real America™ up there so why would they care?

people in MA aren't real americans. in fact, no real american has EVER come from MA. Everything they have done from the begining of their "commonwealth" has been designed to undermine the rights and liberties of Real Americans from American loving places like Utah, alaska, Mississipi, South Carolina and Texas. Those states have been with America since her founding, contributed in meaningful ways to her liberty defending the concepts of freedom for all of her citizens and all people time and time again. When anyone single person from MA can stand up and say they've been with American always, through thick and thin, through better and worse, through every conflict and disagreement to the same degree as the worst South Carolinian, then we'll care about they're local economy!

03 Jul 2012 05:57 PM
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max_pooper     
The article only states that the Obama's will not be visiting Maratha's Vineyard. That can only mean he will be vacationing on the Moon at a total cost of $100 billion tax payer dollars per day.

Damn you Fartbama!!!

03 Jul 2012 05:58 PM
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Splinshints     
Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link


weaselzipper.us, cnsnews.com, wnd.com, americanthinker.com

i2.kym-cdn.com

/ and to think somebody actually took the time to put all that together.... it's like carving David, getting to the end and realizing you sculpted it out of dried cow shiat

03 Jul 2012 06:00 PM
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SnakeLee    [TotalFark]  
JerseyTim: Makh: Somehow there will be madness and spitting-outrage from this. They'll probably throw around Un-American, or hurting the local economy or something.

Start here.


I know Poe's Law and all, but responses like this have to be trolls:

Obama's entire only term has been a party and vacation. Reagan and Bush worked when they were presidents. Your chimpish understanding of even simple things like this explains why you're still stupid enough to support an evil despot like Maobama. You're a moron.

03 Jul 2012 06:02 PM
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Nina_Hartley's_Ass     
per DAY!

03 Jul 2012 06:03 PM
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cubic_spleen     
THIS IS WHAT REPUBLICANS REALLY BELIEVE.

03 Jul 2012 06:09 PM
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mcnguyen     
Of course he won't be in Martha's Vineyard. Right-wing blogs have infromed me that he'll be spending the 4th of July in Paris.

03 Jul 2012 06:10 PM
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Glenford     
Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link


I didn't know that GeoCities was still hosting sites. Needs more:
wonder-tonic.com
and
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03 Jul 2012 06:17 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
Glenford: Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link

I didn't know that GeoCities was still hosting sites. Needs more:
[wonder-tonic.com image 55x27]
and
[wonder-tonic.com image 88x31][wonder-tonic.com image 114x43]


stancandesign.com

03 Jul 2012 06:19 PM
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theorellior    [TotalFark]  
Warning! This news is

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HOT!

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DANGER!

03 Jul 2012 06:45 PM
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Trey Le Parc     
TommyymmoT: BillCo: Dear President Obama,

Please take as much vacation time as you like. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You can spend the time packing up your stuff in the White House so that you will be ready to move out in January.

Sincerely,
BillCo

P.S. We will be checking the silverware.

Don't worry, the Disney themed cereal spoons left over from Bush will still be there.


Those will be collectible some day!

03 Jul 2012 06:57 PM
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lacrossestar83     
BillCo: Dear President Obama,

Please take as much vacation time as you like. In fact, take the rest of the year off. You can spend the time packing up your stuff in the White House so that you will be ready to move out in January.

Sincerely,
BillCo

P.S. We will be checking the silverware.


This is why I have you faved, highlighted in bright red, and with the comment "Derp"

03 Jul 2012 07:49 PM
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keylock71    [TotalFark]  
Meanwhile...

www.bostonglobe.com


That reminds me of something...

liveshot.cc


See you in November, Mitt Kerry...

03 Jul 2012 08:17 PM
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Surool     
downstairs: Billions? Please. Martha's Vineyard is most likely very easy to secure, and not that far from DC.

Yes, a President's vacation costs a lot to orchastrate... but its not that crazy.


The GOP use "cop math" when calculating the cost of anything involving the President.

03 Jul 2012 08:27 PM
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ManRay     
No vacation in a down economy? Must be an election year.

03 Jul 2012 08:30 PM
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Greek     
Pocket Ninja: This site has some pretty good analysis on the topic:

Link


Holy shiat. That site makes FreeRepublic look like a bunch of left- wing communist pinkos! I didn't think that was possible. How can someone so deluded, insane, and/ or stupid actually operate a computer, let alone make a website? OMG, I think every single e-mail ever sent by every right- wing aunt/ uncle/ grandmother/ co- worker/ whatever has been worked into that site and then multiplied by 2,000! You know that picture of the guy ripping out his hair and shouting "LIBS! LIBS! LIBS!?" I think Andrew K. Dart makes him look like Lenin, Chomsky, and Soros, rolled into one. I'll bet he thinks Breitbart was an avowed communist, and that the US should elect a REAL moderate, like Michelle Bachmann.

03 Jul 2012 08:41 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
ManRay: No vacation in a down economy? Must be an election year.

Whereas taking more vacation than the previous 5 presidents combined... leads to a down economy. Amirite?

03 Jul 2012 08:59 PM
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sno man    [TotalFark]  
coeyagi: ManRay: No vacation in a down economy? Must be an election year.

Whereas taking more vacation than the previous 5 presidents combined... leads to a down economy. Amirite?


when did we stat talking about W again?

03 Jul 2012 09:05 PM
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The Lone Gunman     
Cancelling his summer vacation will save taxpayers $20 billion dollars.

Unfortunately, ANNOUNCING that Obama will be cancelling his summer vacation will cost taxpayers...FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND BILLION DOLLARS!

Good job, Fartbongo.

Why do you hate America so much?

03 Jul 2012 10:18 PM
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Snarcoleptic_Hoosier    [TotalFark]  
The Lone Gunman: Cancelling his summer vacation will save taxpayers $20 billion dollars.

Unfortunately, ANNOUNCING that Obama will be cancelling his summer vacation will cost taxpayers...FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND BILLION DOLLARS!

Good job, Fartbongo.

Why do you hate America so much?


I couldn't agree more. He needs to ANNOUNCE a vacation, just to keep the economy rolling but then NOT GO on an actual vacation to save the taxpayers' money.

That's it. The Travelocity Gnome is now President.

03 Jul 2012 10:39 PM
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The Lone Gunman     
Snarcoleptic_Hoosier: The Lone Gunman: Cancelling his summer vacation will save taxpayers $20 billion dollars.

Unfortunately, ANNOUNCING that Obama will be cancelling his summer vacation will cost taxpayers...FIVE HUNDRED SIXTY THOUSAND BILLION DOLLARS!

Good job, Fartbongo.

Why do you hate America so much?

I couldn't agree more. He needs to ANNOUNCE a vacation, just to keep the economy rolling but then NOT GO on an actual vacation to save the taxpayers' money.

That's it. The Travelocity Gnome is now President.


And Obama will be forced to change the sheets at your local Motel 6.

03 Jul 2012 10:53 PM
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coeyagi    [TotalFark]  
sno man: coeyagi: ManRay: No vacation in a down economy? Must be an election year.

Whereas taking more vacation than the previous 5 presidents combined... leads to a down economy. Amirite?

when did we stat talking about W again?


When trolls are confused about the cause of this epic shiatstorm.

03 Jul 2012 11:07 PM
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