WaPo Columnist: Exercise Your 'Civic Duty': Suggest Vacation Spot for Obamas
It's almost July and the president hasn't yet announced his family's vacation plans yet. So of course Washington Post columnist Al Kamen felt obliged to direct his readers to kindly offer suggestions for vacation spots for the laid-back commander-in-chief.
“[I]t’s time to do your civic duty by suggesting where the first family should vacation this year. Deadline for submissions is Friday, June 29," Kamen told his "In the Loop" readers in today's paper. "Our five favorite entries will win coveted Loop T-shirts -- perfect for wearing on your own summer vacation." Or for the 8.2 percent who are without work, on the unemployment line.
This isn't the first time Kamen conducted an Obama-boosting exercise in crowd-sourcing. Back in October of 2011, Kamen pitched another great idea for voters to submit their phrase that would encapsulate the Obama administration in the history books. Think Reagan’s “Mr. Gorbachev Tear Down This Wall” or Kennedy’s “Ask Not” as prime examples, Kamen exhorted.
While the country faces enormous challenges, we are encouraged by members of the dead tree liberal media to dither and daydream about where to send the first family. I’m sure all the Obama zombies will be fast and furious in delivering their suggestion concerning the pressing issue of the first family’s next vacation on the taxpayer’s dime. I think the hometown of Brian Terry would be an appropriate destination.
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I think the best spot would
Submitted by ricklail on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:39pm.
I think the best spot would be somewhere in the middle East with his pals from the Muslim Brotherhood.
Don't anybody say Hell.
Submitted by SickofLibs on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:40pm.
I just checked, and Orbitz came up blank.
They act like it willl just
Submitted by ricklail on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:52pm.
They act like it willl just be the four of them. I'd plan for around 200 at least. I know good and well they will not go on a camping trip.
SoL
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:57pm.
Maybe you should try the advanced search feature.
Try a subsitution
Submitted by Dragoon on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:33am.
We're doing a great job of recreating hell here in Colorado. 15+ fires and days at 100 or higher. We're also got strong winds, lightning storms, and snowing ash.
This is too easy...
Submitted by gopcongress on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:40pm.
OK, NB'ers... Best suggestion for the Bamster's vacation place gets you a Romney Wawa sandwich.
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vaca
Submitted by Agnostic on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 2:33pm.
Nuremberg - where the last facist uprising ended
telling the obama's where to go
Submitted by MidAmerica on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:41pm.
Tempting but I'll defer to others.
I like it
Submitted by pockets64 on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 7:28pm.
That's about where I was going to go with: They could always go back to whence they came... Hades.
Chicago
Submitted by JeffC... on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:50pm.
See how well his political inspiration is working for them. On second thought--don't go to Chicago because it will draw all the police to protect him instead of protecting Chicagoans.
A friend called the Chicago government the most corrupt in the nation. Then he went and voted for The One who came up in the machine.
What?
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 7:31pm.
Chicago police protect the public?
Jeez. How many would be killed on a weekend if they didn't?
Underground Tour, of Coal mines...
Submitted by upcountrywater on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 5:52pm.
Tours of Electrical Power plants..
Tours of Oil Refineries plants..
Tours of Aluminum smelter plants..
Tours of Steel plants..
Tours of Pipeline manufacturing plants..
Tours of Virtual fence installations in Israel, by US contractors..
Tour to Singapore to get a much needed Caning, for failing to follow the Constitution.
You Didn't Build That.
Hey, no ka oi!! I've been to
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 12:36am.
Hey, no ka oi!! I've been to Singapore a few times - super clean, super organized, super capitalistic, super successful, AND they enforce the law!!!! Plus, Boy Baraka is such a lightweight that he'd be lucky to be working at a coffee shop at one of those successful PRIVATE businesses in Singapore!!!
And the caning??? Yeah.........that would be great!! Maybe they could strap him to some kind of bright copper shield, so that his awesome 'pecs' would be shimmering with sweat in the sunlight (Singapore is very humid!!), and he could adapt some kind of martyr's grimmace as he is getting his skinny ass whacked with a bamboo cane for being such a seditious traitor to this country. Of course - he might be used to that kind of activity - livin' (Obamaspeak) with Imelda Mooooooooooochelle and all..............
Detroit, Timbuktu, Chernobyl,
Submitted by Lakewood Ed on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:01pm.
Detroit, Timbuktu, Chernobyl, Syria, Afghanistan, Tehran, either pole, Pyongyang
And the location of his famous speech
Submitted by Tugboat Phil on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:07pm.
Bumf**k, Egypt.
Where I'd really like them to vacation is up Fecal Creek without a paddle.
Timbuktu isn't far
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 12:31am.
Timbuktu isn't far enough..................I say TimbukTHREE!!!
So long as they don't return to the White House after November
Submitted by ProudAmerican58 on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:05pm.
I don't care.
Michelle and I would assume the girls
Submitted by Radical1979 on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:07pm.
Are going to London for the Olympics. That should be enough. Besides, didn't they just go to Hawaii over Christmas? No one takes as many vacations as politicians.
Unlimited vacation*
Submitted by cajun2 on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:22pm.
Beginning Nov 7th, another free ride to one of the oldest sites of human existence. KENYA....vacation unlimited .....Come on folks. Let's all get together and make our contribution(vote) to the greatest opportunity so deserving for the Obama's and for us as well.
VOTE ABO
I vote for
Submitted by Joe W. on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:24pm.
Ciudad Juarez, just across the border in Mexico. Wonderful people, plenty of cocaine for the Prez to snort, and hanging bodies decorating freeway overpasses for that holiday festivity. I hear they have great tamales, too...filled with Barack's favorite "canine carne".....I think it would be a wonderful excursion for the overworked first family.
I'm with you Joe
Submitted by paratisi on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:29pm.
Ciudad Juarez with a Fast & Furious walk through the neighborhood his guns made such a fun place to be!
Just don't get between
Submitted by killa37 on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 12:30am.
Just don't get between Mooooooooooochelle and that tamale!!!!
Maybe even a side trip...
Submitted by paratisi on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:32pm.
to TJ or Sonora. Maybe the girls will be lucky enough to meet some of the family members of the Mexicans, Daddy sent to their deaths. That would be most informative.
And while you're at it...
Submitted by Quasi-socialist on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:34pm.
send in that money you would have spent on vacation, and tell the family you've made a donation to Obama for America, instead. They can swim and camp and sight-see every year, but you'll only have one chance to reelect President Incompetence.
Obamaville
Submitted by GW on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 6:50pm.
http://www.conservapedia.com/Obamaville
Now Zad,
Submitted by UpNorth on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 7:16pm.
in Now Zad District, Helmand Province, Afghanistan. My oldest son says it's a garden spot, warm in the summer(110+) and cool in the winter(much like the Upper Peninsula of Michigan, or anywhere in Minnesota).
I'm sure Baracka and Mooooooch and the girls will love it. After all, he should see what those "fighting for" him are doing and how well they're getting on.
is GFY out?
Submitted by dmacleo on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 7:30pm.
or maybe GTFO?
either is fine with me.
Gitmo gits my vote!
Submitted by Newsbubba on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 7:34pm.
Hell, all his old drinking buddies are there already.
Moochie and the girls can work the bars and participate in the most lucrative business on the island in the last few years.
The (Not So) Secret Service would love that place!
Gitmo.
Submitted by drsamherman on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 8:16pm.
At least for Bams and Mooch.
Deprogramming for the girls.
They could always take a tour of Uranus
Submitted by jakee308 on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 10:36pm.
.nt
Send Obama on a permanent
Submitted by P. Aaron on Tue, 06/26/2012 - 10:40pm.
Send Obama on a permanent vacation. I can see November from my house!
Gotta love it, our "civic
Submitted by mustango on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 3:06am.
Gotta love it, our "civic duty" to take responsibility away from Obama for his next lavish vacation choice.
I'm more interested in the defining quote contest myself. "I won" is probably the winner, but his "we don't stand with them" or whatever the phrasing of his rebuke to the Chrysler bondholders was.
Fantasyland
Submitted by oldArmy on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 8:03am.
He could fill out an application as a tour guide since he'll be needing a job in the near future. He's got alot of experience...and references...
I think the whole bunch can
Submitted by smitty091101 on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 10:26am.
I think the whole bunch can go to he ll this summer...
The american people have been there for the last 3 years...so tag it's there turn!
How about Hades?
Submitted by chiefpayne on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 2:06pm.
After all, HE sent the country there first.
I vote for
Submitted by HockeyKid on Wed, 06/27/2012 - 3:12pm.
Fort Leavenworth.
"Beauty is only skin deep, but liberal's to the bone." - me