Why is Obama still in Hawaii?
Five days after the Christmas Day bomber tried to blow up NWA Flight 253 over Detroit, President Obama is still on vacation in Hawaii. He has delivered two hasty, tie-less statements on homeland security from a makeshift podium in Honolulu whose underwhelming sum impact has been the equivalent of voting “present” (Obama’s career m.o.) By his own admission and in direct contradiction to his hapless DHS Secretary, the president acknowledged yesterday that “systemic failure” led to the breach.
Obama is not scheduled to return to Washington until Sunday. That’s four more full days of reinforcing his image as detached, aloof, and too damned tired to tackle the jihadi epidemic with the once-hyped energy and passion of a 48-year-old Super-Agent of Hope and Change.
Team Obama’s stage managers and image gurus are all about symbolism. Wouldn’t the president send a more credible message to jihadi plotters around the world (and to Americans) by cutting his holiday break short and getting back to work in the White House, rather than by phoning it in for the next four days?
And how many more tropical paradise pow-wows and basketball games with his Chicago cronies Valerie Jarrett, Marty Nesbitt, and Eric Whitaker does he need, anyway?
We’ve gone from “Blood, toil, sweat, and tears” to “Beach, golf, (gym) sweat, and (self-pitying) tears.”
Rough men stand ready to keep and defend our safety. As for President Obama, it’s still Me Time.
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This Politico piece tries to make hay of the supposedly unfair double standard in how Bush was treated during the shoe bomber attack during Christmas 2001 versus the “heat” that Obama is taking now for remaining on holiday.
A few inconvenient differences and facts that the article glosses over: Bush had been working non-stop since September 11 on homeland security issues and had the public’s trust. The attacks consumed him. By contrast, the current Democratic majority and White House have been working non-stop to lower our defenses and speed the jihadi revolving door.
In December 2001, Bush had not yet amassed his lousy record on Katrina, Harriet Miers, Dubai Ports, shamnesty, and the massive bailouts (all of which have been lambasted extensively on this website and in my columns over the last four years). In December 2009, Obama has already amassed enough Culture of Corruption material to fill an encyclopedia set.
And unlike the low-key Bush, President Obama has been a shameless, consummate TV hog from Day One — willing to turn anything and everything, including a race-baiting tiff between his good friend Professor Henry Louis Gates and Cambridge MA police — into a global “teachable moment” of “unprecedented” proportions. When he doesn’t rush to address Americans after a matter of real import strikes, “heat” — no matter how hypocritical his supporters may paint it – is entirely appropriate.
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Baracky can stay in Hawaii for the rest of his term for all I care. Now I know that the “WH goes with the president” wherever he travels so personally, this isn’t a big deal to me but it does shine a big light on the hypocrisy of the left and their perpetual whining every time Bush went to Texas.
He’s telecommuting.
In all appearances from the start Obama was hoping that the failed terrorist attack on Christmas Day would just go away on its own or at least his underlings would take care of it. It is just interupting his play time. The worse this looks for him the better as far as I am concerned. The longer Janet Incompitano stays in her position the better in the sense that that administration looks so incapable of handling almost any situation that even the left is it finding harder and harder to come to Obama’s defense. The nerve of Obama to insinuate that this is actually Bush’s fault. Still? Really? Why not go back so far as to blame Clinton? He is not a leader. Period. So far he and the country have been exceedingly lucky that that attack failed. The masses will turn on him if we get hit with a successful attack. The masses are starting to turn already with the outrage of long delays and all too personal frisks at the airports as they return home from their Christmas vacations.
Go easy on him, globetrotting and being Shill in Chief for government takeovers at every opportunity have exhausted the poor thing. Besides, that’s why the rough men stand ready, their at his beck and call to give him time to rest and rejuvenate so that he can continue on his planned course despite those pesky jihadis who just don’t understand him and his goals.
Maybe we can call him the PRESENT of the United States.
MUAHAHAHA
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
(gym) sweat? What gym sweat?
I remember that during the campaign there was some clueless woman who wrote a piece about a chance meeting with Obama in a gym.
He went through his workout and went over to her to introduce himself and she was impressed that he wasn’t sweating.
If you’re not sweating at the end of a workout you’re just going through the motions, which explains why, if he’s such a gym rat, that he has a paunch and man boobs.
It also explains his approach to the presidency-he’s just going through the motions.
Obama shows over and over that he’s an incompetent phony.
Amen to that.
If he’s in Hawaii, he’s not signing illegal bills into law.
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
Hmmm, which hospital is that? Coming off the freeway he would have gone past Queens, then down King, he’d go past Straub. After dinner, up Beretania to Toot’s condo and then turn and up past Kapiolani and Shriners…then to the freeway, airport and a flight to Nairobi…
They had 57 flavors when he worked there..
Dude you are brutal.
HAHAHA
RWR
http://www.rightwingrocker.com
He’s teleprompting.
Because his name isn’t George W. Bush and the “lamestream” press are never going to call him on it.
‘If you don’t change the direction you’re travelling in you’re going to arrive where you are going!’
Sir John Whitmore
Don’t forget. Obama was picking his nose in Hawaii in summer 2008 while Russia was invading Georgia. His three press conferences over the course of a weekend were pathetic.
It took him three tries to finally approach the correct position.
He thinks he’s going to benefit from affirmative action in the gym, too.
How many and for how long? All too many in this country-especially the media and academia- denigrate military service, expel and eliminate ROTC programs. United States Senators call these rough men murderers, thugs and NAZIs. We have schools trying to turn our sons into Sensitive, Caring wimps In Touch With Their Feminine Side. That a man has to be a wimp to be sensitive and caring is a stong Liberal position.
How after two generations of this TREASON we still have such Rough men stand ready to keep and defend our safety I do not know- but I do give thanks we still have some. Yes strong and courageous young people who put their live on the line only to be denigrated by Janet Napolitano as “potential threats“. No good people TREASON is not too strong a word.
Now I wait for Blue Lips w/ears to go to the USS Arizona Memorial and apologize to Japan for shooting back.
Reminds me of an old boss. We could work from home, but if we did it enough he reasoned he could hire us out to India for MUCH cheaper. Can we outsource him?
He’s working on a new birth certificate and/or trying to find the spot of the actual place where he claims to have been born. He is an imposter and a usurper in the biggest way.
There, that should shut down this thread…LOL
I thought it was creepy when his second statement on the attack came out yesterday afternoon. When I looked at the screen, it was audio only…on all the channels. Did he not want to take questions? Did he not like the look of himself reading off notes instead of his teleprompter? Was he in his bathing suit? He brings these jokes on himself.
Because he really doesn’t give a rat’s patootie about “man-caused disasters”.
In your face righties!!!
The left gets away with anything!! Any hypocracy, any lie, any criminal act, anything!!
It will all be hidden and swept under the rug. This charlatan we call President can get away with anything. Absolutely anything. I’m waiting for him and Tiger to go partying together. Of course, they probably already have. Just was’t reported on.
Being President is hard!!
Lets not give knee jerk reactions to Obama, his being in Hawaii enjoying the warmth is really no diff, what he needs to get his job done goes with him. He could make it the White House – West for all I care. Sorry Michelle, but the beginning of this post is all too much like the ones the left put out about Bush taking time to continue reading the the school kids on 9-11. It does improve about here ->And how many more tropical paradise pow-wows and basketball games with his Chicago cronies Valerie Jarrett, Marty Nesbitt, and Eric Whitaker does he need, anyway? Thanks for the work, we need the refreshing point of view you bring
I think the bigger story today is that GMAC is set to get yet another $3.5 billion in taxpayer money to stay afloat yet another few months.
Give Boy Queen some credit. He has been working just as hard as Bush did.
He has to run Government Motors and has the coal industry to destroy as promised. Add to that he has a prison to close while opening another!?! He also has a world to run and a country to destroy – ours.
He needs his rest.
Still plenty of time for We The People to change the locks on the White House. Better git ‘er done!
BOB said:
He won’t find it. The manger is on another continent, not a Pacific island.
Cannot disagree with you.
I feel sorry for the hundreds of staff that work Air Force One and security. I bet they have never worked so hard, this past year. Seems everytime they get a chance to catch their breath, he’s off and running around again. On the flip side, the WH staff have had an easy year. He’s never home there.
His three wise men?
I was thinking more like Karl, Saul and Calypso Louie.
Still plenty of time to re-key the locks…
LOL!
I think those are the Three Wise Guys!
One thing has been clear from the beginning with Obama and the Democrats, they wanted a return to pre-9/11 mentality, and they got it. The CIA dropped the ball — Obama’s CIA. The Department of State dropped the ball — Obama’s Hillary Clinton-led State Department (haven’t heard a peep out of her in weeks.) Homeland Security dropped the ball — Obama’s Janet Clown-itano-led Homeland Security. Aside from taking over after the flight crew and a Dutch passenger subdued this martyr-wannabe, what have they done? Oh, yes, they’ve told everyone flying to shut up and sit down for the last hour of the flight. Gonna make the paying public pay for this outrage, they are. What a bunch of losers we have running this government.
Isn’t that a good thing? The less time Obama and his fellow looters are in Washington the less damage they can do.
Dangerous, America-hating, actively-
&intentionally-causing-damage loser minions of socialist/statist/collectivist/opposite worldview-holding evil – yes, evil – and wealthy string-pullers.
…and voters fell for it hook, line and sinker.
Kinda reminds me of Pinky and Obama, and how Obama always wanted to rule the world.
Even though it was obvious at the time that he would be a disaster……to me he did not say one thing as a candidate and then do another. The things I heard Obama say during the campaign had me actively working at my local Republican headquarters for McCain, even though I can’t stand McCain.
I will admit Obama has far exceeded my worst expectations.
I am not going to nit pick. I do not care if the President stays in Hawaii. There is a part of me that says I do not want to see the President get jerked around by one terrorist act.
I do not care how the President chooses to do business. I just want results. Learning his staff waited three hours to notify him and waiting three days to adress the nation is not my idea of results.
Did he issue any orders to NORAD? Was NORAD notified?
When the South Tower was struck by the second airliner, President Bush had already been notified of the first strike. The posiibility of multiple attacks never crossed the mind of the Obama Team.
My attitude towards the Obama Team is very simple. We don’t want excuses; we just want results. Frankly, I don’t care if he’s are tired. His management of priorities and his time management or lack of it are personal problems.
Get it done Mr. President. You wanted the job. You got it. In the words of Al Davis, “Just win baby.”
Let’s not forget that Obama postponed the start of his Hawaii vacation because he positively, absolutely had to be on hand to whip up Democrats to rush, rush, rush the “Health Care” fiasco through as a Christmas present to the American people.
That being said, the fact that he is still in Hawaii doesn’t bother me so much. My criticism rests with the inexcusably lame and uniformed statements made by Barry (and others in his administration like Napolitano and Robert Gibbs) about this Jihadist attack.
In contrast, while Bush waited to make a statement while information was being gathered, he did not rush to judgment with idiotic pronouncements about lone wolf extremists and a system that worked perfectly.
We are getting results…they are called the road to disaster.
Ditto – see above.
Not gonna happen with these active America-haters – at least, not the kind of win you appear to be asking for.
My fear is that if there is a major terrorist attack, it will provide another excuse for a power grab. Obama will come out and read a carefully prepared, political speech from his teleprompter, because he can’t think on his feet, blaming Bush and our “war” in the Middle East. Pelosi and Reid will demand more “rules”. Meanwhile, the MSM will, of course, fully support the coup d’etat. People die, while the politicians ask themselves how they can profit from it.
Well, at least Obama is learning. He didn’t say the passengers “acted stupidly.”
Now if he could just learn to completely shut up and stay in Hawaii, we’d all be much better off.
He’s “tired” and needs this vacation!Tired of posting for the most regal photo angle and reading the teleprompter.
Even though he appears to take international vacations on Air Force One at least every other week!The taxpayer foots the bill.
Obammy is not content unless he is costing the taxpayer at his leisure.
Granite, since I agree with our comments that is why I wrote them while locked in my closet.
I wrote what I wrote because I am tired of the excuse making from everyone around this guy. It’s pathetic. He’s got pass after pass after pass after pass all his life. He is in a position where the nation can no longer afford it.
It’s time for Barry to grow a pair and in the words of Bruce Willis in “Tears of the Sun” to “Cowboy the $%^% up.”
He is going to get a whole bunch of people needlessly killed.
He is an empty suit, a puppet, a minion.
He is not going to man the **** up.
If he could, he would not.
If he did indeed decide to, it would not be to the benefit of America, but rather to its detriment.
Once again, notice that on threads of this type of topic, our resident socialist trolls are conspicuously absent.
Yep.
If anyone saw Alan Combes on O’Reilly last night they likely either threw a shoe into their TV or vomited. It was disgusting.
That was a given back in November once the imbecilic American Voter elected him President of the United States of America, the most powerful position on the planet, by far, with all of the responsibilities that go with that kind of power.
Let us hope and pray that will be the worst of it. Seriously. A few downed airliners or even another 9/11 would be an incredibly small price to pay for what we did.
Elections have consequences.
Mega dittos. Could not agree more.
I noticed – and Chap too.
trying very hard to increase his tan.
On December 30th, 2009 at 10:37 am, Roland said:
Let us hope and pray that will be the worst of it. Seriously. A few downed airliners or even another 9/11 would be an incredibly small price to pay for what
wethe stupid voters did.FIFY
The media assure us that hard-working Obama is in constant touch with the rest of his administration and the reins of power, even while surfing and golfing in Hawaii. Now, when Bush was at the ranch in Texas (several thousand miles closer to DC than Hawaii), that of course was not true, right?
I will give the MSM credit for FINALLY starting to find its legs by reporting on what we knew and when we knew it. Now if they could just find a way to blame it on Bush or Cheney…
he’s working on his tan, dog. the weather outside is delightful, and the atmosphere in d.c. is frightful. all clogged with snow, so i can’t get my blow, so i think i’ll just stay here on hilo.
I wish Hot Air would post video of that segment. I actually found it hilarious, and thought Angela Tantaros did a brilliant job of smacking poor Alan down. She had some line about needing to screen the baggage of the Obama administration, like Geithner and Napolitano, which was funny as hell.
None of this should be a surprise. This is what malignant narcissists do. It’s his vacation, his ideas, his agendas his his his…. me me me! We are here to adore and promote him. He organizes and delegates. It is up to others to get the job done. If they fail, it is not BHO’s fault for having a dumb idea, but the fault of those who fail at implementing the his ideas. He has never been allowed to fail and by the same token, has never really created his own success. He has surrounded himself with those who support his ego. When the reality sets in that he is really nothing more than a puppet for his puppeteers and his ego is based upon nothing, then result will be tragic for him. He has no coping mechanism for failure. And fail he will.
Colmes has his head so far up Duh Won’s butt that I’m surprised he isn’t blue. I loved watching Angela own him in that debate. He’s such a drone.
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Don’t look a gift horse in the mouth! The more Comrade Obama (PBUH) and his Congressional / Government minions are absent the better I like it.
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I hope The Messiah didn’t leave the nuclear “football” on the beach near his surfboard. President Clinton actually lost the “attack codes” when he was in office.
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John Bibb
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Speaking only for myself, I not only don’t mind that he’s in Hawaii, I wish he was on that fictional island that Harrison Ford and friend found themselves on in Six Days and Seven Nights, alone with his wife, no communications and no staff. The country, and the world, would be a far better place.
I haven’t read all the previous comments, so apologies if I’m duplicating. I noticed that in all of his previous speeches the emphasis has been “I”, “I”, “ME”, “ME”. but this time it was “a systemic failure in the system”.
I was hoping (but not expecting) the Commander in Chief would take a Trumanesque “the buck stops here” approach to the failure. As in, “my team screwed the pooch, and it’s my fault as their leader.”
I had a great manager once who’s approach to leadership was “if somthing good happens, it’s your (meaning the workers) doing, if something goes wrong it’s my (meaning the manager) fault.”
Oh to have a president like that.
As long as he’s on vacation, he’s not doing significant harm by pushing insane Leftist policies. Let him spend the next 3 years in Hawaii. It will be better for us all.
“Shark Bait. OOHHH Hah Hah”
They can’t come back to dc yet, mo hasn’t finished shopping for another pair of gosh horrible $635 pair shoes!
I sure do miss President Bush. I am so sorry this bho is president, he is totally useless as CIC!
L
Ya. CA has beaches and golf courses.
TX has beaches and Golf courses.
FL has beaches and golf courses.
Just because they are covered in snow right now due to Global Warming should not be an excuse not to go there.
Also has anyone noticed that pelousi is in HW. Where’s reid at. maybe some more transparency going on here?
Big ear barry does not care about a few americans dying in jihad attacks
He should be back in Washington, not playing beach volleyball with his childhood fantasies
He and gigantor, that wife of his, are an embarrassment
Where are the bikini shots of her?
Oh, I think that “totally useless” is way, way too much of an understatement.
That implies passively non-helpful; whereas this minion is actively, and arguably enthusiastically, harmful to America.
The broadsheet (no pun intended) newspapers have narrowed so much over the past couple of decades, that, at present, there is thankfully no publication large enough to display one.
The leftists made all kinds of noises about Bush not immediately leaping to his feet on 9/11/01, but Bush is Batman compared to the limp-wristed, whaddever attitude Obama and his administration have had toward this whole incident.
Obama doesn’t like dealing with terrorism. It’s an inconvenient distraction from his plans to turn America into the USS of A. It’s an unwelcome reminder of the very real threat of Islamic terrorism. It has been a leftist trope for the past 8 years that Bush and Cheney exaggerated the threat of terror in order to steal all of our civil liberties. Crackpot Muslims aren’t the problem, it’s wacko Christian fundies who want to burn feminists at the stake, enslave blacks, and use gays as target practice at the firing range. This is why they will dismiss Maj. Jihad and the Undiebomber as random, lone nuts or as misunderstood abused souls, while any action against an abortionist is part of some grand Republican conspiracy that necessitates putting Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh in jail.
Pelosi is in HI, but on the “Big Island” of Hawaii. Obama is on Oahu. And no, he doesn’t refer to his wife as”the Big Island”….
Wish BHO would party in the fashion of the Tiger. That may be the only time he doesn’t get away with everything. The ‘First’ lady just might kick him a new a$$.
It must be nice for Obama and Pelosi to vacation in Hawaii while out of work families suffer.
Over at drudge report:
Broken link though so I am not sure how true it is. I would not doubt it though.
JD,
I know the feeling all too well. But Obama will make it up to me by forcing me to pay a penalty on my taxes for not being able to afford health insurance. I love the guy :choak – spit:
Because he is sooooo tired. Just lay off the poor bass turd.
PC Police: Wrong! They’re Sea kittens! Do you require re-education?
On December 30th, 2009 at 12:19 pm, GladzKravtz said:
Absolutely anything. I’m waiting for him and Tiger to go partying together.
only way that would happen is if he tied his ears back and wore a blond wig!
This whole terrorist thing is annoying to him. He probably considers it a distraction from the priorities on his agenda. And those priorities would be…
=Socializing medicine
=Shutting down conservative talk-radio
=Socializing other business sectors
=Redistributing wealth from those who EARNED it to those who are too lazy to bother to earn anything.
=Funding his cronies with our tax dollars
=Apologizing to the world for what he sees as America’s rude and selfish behavior
=Handing away our sovereignty to forgeign governments
=taxing Americans to death in order to “fix” the non-existent problem of global warming…which is really just another way to make America pay for it’s arrogance.
All of these things are what he cares about. Terrorists attacks? Nope. They’re just screwing up his schedule to remake America. He has until the end of 2010 to rewrite our laws to favor his socialist world view. So these “human-caused disaster-ers” better knock it off.
When you have no spine…when you have no balls… when you have no morals… when you have no values… when you have no character… when you have no integrity…and when you have no desire to gain any of these things life is exhausting.
48 years old and in less than a year he is exhausted? What a wuss. Of the living U.S. presidents I’d say Carter is the only one that can’t kick Obama’s ass.
Reagan still could.
Yes. I suppose it would demonstrate that terrorist plots, even unsuccessful ones, are successful in causing disruption and hysteria. In other words, that their methods work.
I agree. Whether he’s in Washington, DC or in Honolulu, what difference does it make? The fact is he’s an incompetent boob, and is utterly incapable of doing anything that would or could be reasonably expected of a president of the United States. I hope he spends the rest of his presidency on vacation, because that will mean that he can’t doing stupid things that will do harm to the country.
So.. we should be more like the Israelis and just sit back and enjoy the daily bombs and rockets, eh?
So you were ok with Bush continuing to read to school kids on 9/11?
USPACOM HQ is “right down the street” at Pearl Harbor. He can go there, get briefed up, order the massive strikes against all the camps in Yemen and Somalia and then back to the beach to work on his pecs.
Dropping leaflets on the camps 10 minutes prior to the strikes to inform the terrorists of their Miranda Rights and provide them with toll free numbers to several criminal defense law firms would be optional.
Zip, bang, done…..
Not to overstate the obvious because most on this blog understand that the media are Obama’s (and lib’s) lapdogs, but compare this to Bush’s few minutes after learning about the 9-11 attacks. Though obviously different in scope, the lemming media excoriated Bush (and still does) for his not immediately rushing out of his reading session with a first grade class after learning of the attack on our Country. To me that action by Bush was really a human response to hearing about something that had been unfathomable the moment before he heard about it. In this case, Obama has had days to contemplate what he should do, which of course, he has now shown us. And where is the press on this???? *crickets chirping*
MSM = Enemy combatants
There is a difference between a measured response (i.e., reviewing procedures, implementing new technology, firing people if need be) and a silly knee jerk response.
Of course not. And I am sure you, and any reasonable person, would agree that 9:06 am on September 11, 2009 was nothing remotely like a situation in which the attack had already occurred, been thwarted, the perpetrator in custody and there was no indication that it was part of an immediately imminent bigger threat. Much the same way Bush reacted to Richard Reid. Which I don’t recall a lot of complaints about from either side.
As I said…any reasonable person.
Umm, because he’s afraid to fly.
So.. a measured response is a full vacation week and a kneejerk reponse would be getting back to work early, got it!
You surly are NOT referring to flight NWA Flight 253 as unsuccessful are you? Chap, I stand up for you a lot of the time. I am utterly disappointed that a person can board a flight and ignite a bomb and you would call it unsuccessful. If the system failed and THAT does not strike fear in you, well… I am sure of one thing. The “hysteria” of the passengers and the “disruption” of their lives was real so, yeah, terrorism methods work. SHEESH
Personally I prefer “immediate suppression.”
Its hard out there for a socialist.
There’s thugs to keep track of, CEOs to bully, a treasury to skim, its just, never ending.
This President has made more of an effort avoiding responsibility than he has shouldering issues.
Or maybe a criminal enterprise is time consuming.
He’s still in Hawaii because there’s no one to lead him down the Yellow Brick Road, where, maybe, he can get a heart, a brain, and some courage.
and no response?
No response for THREE days. I want my president to tell me that he is in charge and that I can take my family on a trip safely. He failed to do this, Chap. Where is the the guy in charge that can command a determined response to a very real threat?
Yes. A knee jerk reaction would be for the President to significantly disrupt his schedule to do…what exactly? What exactly would be gained from his leaving Hawaii? Can he not order a review of procedures from there? Can he not speak with pretty much anything he wants from pretty much anywhere in the world? What, exactly, tangibly has he not done that you think he needs to do, that he cannot do from Hawaii? Or are you all just going to glom onto this “symbolic gesture to terrorists” nonsense?
Don’t be absurd. The attack failed. The plane landed. The only one seriously injured was the terrorist. That is a different thing from saying that there wasn’t, as Obama put it, a “systemic failure” that allowed the guy to get on the plane in the first place. Saying one failed is not saying the other did not.
No you don’t. You want to attack Obama. This is how it generally goes here.
If Obama says nothing…”He should say something!”
If Obama says something…”He said the wrong thing!”
If Obama says the right thing…”He was insincere! He doesn’t really believe it!”
Rinse. Repeat.
On the off chance you are being sincere and actually want to hear that from Obama, you are basically telling me you want him to lie to you. Obama can’t guarantee the safety of airline flight that doesn’t even originate in the US any more than Reagan could prevent all of the dozens of airline hijackings and bombings that occurred under his watch, or Bush I or Clinton or Bush II.
Baubles and shiny things, that’s why.
He likes turning the presidency into a mockery. It’s part and parcel with his general disdain for America and the related desire to sully it and drag it down — from exceptionalism to “Just another Minnow in the school of Minnows” which makes up the “international community” that donk-Americans value more highly than their own country.
Hope-a-Dope was never interested in getting his hands dirty with the nuts-and-bolts of the executive office; that’s what Nancy-n-Harry are for. They are supposed to free him up for what’s really important: hitting the links every weekend and taking vacations.
Perpetually campaigning against George Bush is the Alpha and Omega of what Hope-a-Dope considers “acting presidential,” and even then he fobs off most of that to Robert Gibbs. Anything else is an inconvenience at best, more often simply an annoyance.