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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  1. #101
    On December 30th, 2009 at 12:29 am, ssnark said:

    On December 29th, 2009 at 9:40 pm, Republicanvet said:

    The fool needs to pick up a paper or get a briefing from his military aide since the TERRORIST already said he was trained in Yemen….obviously by someone other than reading a book.

    He’d been briefed three times since the incident in what is known as the “daily report” which is a classified Presidential version of the daily news report. So, Mr. Obama had heard that this was not an act of a ‘lone nut case’ three times at the very least.

    The TERRORIST already admitted there were more in Yemen ready to conduct attacks.

    Mr. Obama obviously had heard that too and studiously chose to ignore it either to the public or what may be worse to himself and the public.

    The TERRORISTS responsible in Yemen have claimed credit for it.

    Which again he’d been informed of, at least once and chose to ignore it.

    What does this nitwit need? A group picture of them on his TOTUS?

    For whatever reason Mr. Obama has failed to take notice now whether this is only for public consumption (which would indicate he assumes the public is oblivious to this event even when its plastered on front pages everywhere) or he chooses not to take notice of these facts (more dangerous) is all that remains to be seen.

    In another post you say,

    Somebody pooched this pretty good.

    There are boat loads of watch lists and databases, but somehow somebody missed the one list or database his name was in.

    Why are these not linked? Turf wars?

    The embassy probably put it on the State Department database. The CIA on theirs. State and CIA databases don’t usually talk to one another for reasons of security. Both are supposed to talk to DHS’s database which should have correlated it with the name on the “Watch list” but for some reason didn’t. Why, we’ll never know. I tend to suspect that some of the rules files in those databases have been tampered with recently. But that’s pure conjecture on my part. But, at least this much of Mr. Obama’s statement is true, “a systemic failure has occurred.”

    I’m betting that it will take innocent lives wasted and bits of aluminum, plastics, wire and other odd bits of metal alloys before Mr. Obama and company even begin to notice that they need to fix their systemic failure.

  2. #102
    On December 30th, 2009 at 4:04 am, AlohaGuy said:

    I’m betting that it will take innocent lives wasted and bits of aluminum, plastics, wire and other odd bits of metal alloys before Mr. Obama and company even begin to notice that they need to fix their systemic failure.

    “Can’t I just eat my Onaga in peace?”

  3. #103
    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.”

  4. #104
    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!

  5. #105
    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…

  6. #106
    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*****

  7. #107
    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”.

  8. #108
    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.

  9. #110
    On December 30th, 2009 at 3:38 pm, spaceycakes said:

    and I am not even paying rent

    LOL; I’ll bet.

  10. #111
    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?

  11. #112
    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.

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