Michelle Malkin » Poor Obama: Being president is exhausting

Poor Obama: Being president is exhausting

By Michelle Malkin • December 29, 2009 01:41 PM

Jetting off for Broadway dates, undeserved Peace Prizes, botched Crony-lympics bids, and world apology tours is hard work, don’t you know?

Cue the world’s smallest violin:

After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.

Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency — the early decisions to bail out the nation’s banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.

Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it’s no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.

Not that the commander in chief really thinks he can escape his duties, even on an island. Amid golf, tennis, gym workouts and dinner, Obama has been called on to monitor the airliner attack in Detroit last Friday and what appeared to be another attack on Sunday — that incident turned out to be a false alarm. On Monday, Obama worked out in the morning and played tennis before making his first public remarks on airline security, then hit the golf course.

So much for putting aside the stress of work. Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an “extraordinary year.”

“You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month. “Absolutely that weighs on me.”

Via AP.

All together now: Boo-freaking-hoo.

The piece certainly helps explain President McCrankyPants’ hasty, bloodless, perfunctory statement yesterday on the Christmas Day jihad attack and the Iranian crackdown.

But what else did you expect from a man who has been phoning it in from the beginning of his brief political career as the Illinois state senator who voted “present” nearly 130 times?

Americans can help alleviate the exhausted commander-in-chief’s discomfort by ensuring his retirement in 2012.

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You know what else saps Obama’s energy? Passing the buck.

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#101

On December 30th, 2009 at 5:54 am, ssnark said:

On December 30th, 2009 at 4:04 am, AlohaGuy said:

“Can’t I just eat my Onaga in peace?”

That may become the Obama equivalent of Rodney King’s “Can’t we all just get along.”
#102

On December 30th, 2009 at 10:26 am, cheapseat said:

a funny and great read is Dave Berry’s year in review, found on drudge. he didn’t skewer our dear leader on his vast and glorious travel agenda, but he did every other foible. IT WAS BUSH’S FAULT!
#103

On December 30th, 2009 at 10:31 am, spaceycakes said:

Do you agree that being President of the US is a difficult job?

Do you believe that talking about the difficulties of being President, when asked, is complaining, or giving the facts?

Funny, I didn’t see you post similar drivel in here when Bush was still the President…
#104

On December 30th, 2009 at 11:07 am, TigerLady said:

Funny, I didn’t see you post similar drivel in here when Bush was still the President…

****crickets*****
#105

On December 30th, 2009 at 11:26 am, iowavette said:

All the TLC he’s receiving from the press and he’s tired. What a wimp. I miss “W”.
#106

On December 30th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, zyzzyg said:

On December 30th, 2009 at 10:31 am, spaceycakes said: #105

Funny, I didn’t see you post similar drivel in here when Bush was still the President…

It is simply amazing that you can recall everything that I have written. I am flattered. I’ve got space in your head and I am not even paying rent.

That being said, re-read my comment because it applies to all Presidents.
#107

On December 30th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, spaceycakes said:

and I am not even paying rent

LOL; I’ll bet.
#108

On December 30th, 2009 at 4:18 pm, zyzzyg said:

On December 30th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, spaceycakes said: #110

LOL; I’ll bet.

It is a good bet, and I am glad that you find humor in knowing that you recall everything I have ever said. Yep, isn’t it a ridiculous assertion by you? I am laughing out loud at you.

Did you re-read the post and will you acknowledge that being President is difficult no matter who is in that office?
#109

On January 1st, 2010 at 9:44 am, kurthanson said:

Blaming Bush for all the ills of the U.S. can be hard and tiring work.