At least Obama can travel all over the world freely. Bush and Cheney rarely go anywhere. They are considered war criminals in most countries and are afraid of their own shadows.
When Brussels intervened, some argued that Obama should have cut short his trip and come back home. I disagree. You don’t let three suicide bombers control the itinerary of the American President. Moreover, Obama’s next stop, Argentina, is actually important and had just elected a friendly government that broke from its long and corrupt Peronist past. Nonetheless, Obama could have done without the baseball. What kind of message does it send to be yukking it up with Raul even as Belgian authorities are picking body parts off the floor of the Brussels airport?
W in Haiti after it was hit by a devastating earthquake. He went to raise money to provide aid and to help rebuild. W in Africa to promote his initiative to fight cervical and breast cancer among African women.
Yes you already posted that and I said I disagree with it and said roughly, Let him go to Baseball, the trip was planned and there is nothing he can about a bombing across the world.
My major question is who funded the baseball trip? Why the fuck do these guys get to go all over the world on vacation? You are supposed to get paid what 200k a year to be president? Yet every president ends up being a millionaire and living a lavish life style on the tax payers dime.
Great bennies though. Nice retirement. And I hear cigars are plentiful and have many orifices available to them
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/President_of_the_United_States Since 2001, the president has earned a $400,000 annual salary, along with a $50,000 annual expense account, a $100,000 nontaxable travel account, and $19,000 for entertainment.[79][80] The most recent raise in salary was approved by Congress and President Bill Clinton in 1999 and went into effect in 2001. As usual, he completely spent way beyond his (our) means.
It's an elected position, they dont have to run if they dont want. 400k is plenty when the average person you are making decisions for makes 40k. Watching baseball in Cuba is a vacation. Every president I can remember had taken rediculous vacations. The max you have the job is 8 years. Ive been working 12 years since I was 17. My only vacations has been 4 weekend trips to blazer games.
Give me a break....ISIS is ISIS...way to just let the fundamentalist terror organization off the hook for their own atrocities...go ahead and criticize our president but don't blame him for a middle eastern terrorist group basically doing what terrorists do. If you do, you better blame the president of France, Belgium, Germany, England, Canada, etc....every time one of these assholes blows something up it's not our president's job to immediately police Belgium. We gave them intel on the bomb maker there that they caught and Belgium dropped the ball on this one...sheesh.. Denny hates Obama..now I'd have no argument with a post like that. Obama hates Belgium? Now I'm having trouble understanding that one.
Something blows up in Afghanistan everyday whether the pres is playing golf or at a charity event. I personally think ending the cold war with Cuba is pretty important. Sort of like ending a cold war with China or the former Soviet Union. We've made peace with communist Viet Nam as well. I think it's a very good trip by our pres to bring relations back into focus with one of our nearest neighbors.
Unfortunately, for you, the facts justify my view. ISIS is Al Qaeda in Iraq, grown significantly due to Obama's mishandling of Iraq. Al Qaeda in Iraq was decimated by the surge (which senator Obama opposed!) and had little or no influence. Obama's surrender of Iraq to Al Qaeda was accomplished by him ordering the troops home and leaving a lot of military gear and weapons in Iraq for Al Qaeda. His wink and nod to al-Maliki to seek retribution against the Sunni after our surrender only aggravated the situation - the Sunnis rallied around Al Qaeda in Iraq to form ISIS. France, Belgium, Germany, England, Canada, etc., are only threatened by ISIS because Obama made ISIS.
Ending the cold war with Cuba is fine by me. The president visibly partying with the dictator there during Belgium's 9/11 and its aftermath is exactly what Morgan says it is: tone deaf, non-caring.
I blame terrorists for terror. Terrorists made ISIS...I'm glad we got ground troups out of Iraq..Obama did not surrender Iraq to anybody...it's not his country to surrender. Yeah, we left and just like every war we've ever been involved in, spoils of war and weaponry end up in the wrong hands more often than not.
