Trying to Escape the White House
March 9th, 2009. Filed under: Monday's Musings.After working so hard to get into the White house, Obama seems to be doing anything and everything he can to get out. Very interesting. The following is an excerpt from The Washington Post.
Friends and advisers said Obama has chafed at some aspects of his presidential existence. He campaigned tirelessly for 18 months to reach the White House, but, finally there, he seems eager to escape its smothering confines. Obama has asked his advisers to schedule at least one campaign-style trip out of Washington each week, and he has fled the White House to eat meals out, visit Camp David in Maryland and spend a weekend with old friends in Chicago. On Friday night, he sat courtside at Verizon Center and watched the Wizards trounce his hometown Bulls. One afternoon last month, Obama and his wife, Michelle, visited wiggly second-graders at a local public school because, Obama explained, “we were just tired of being in the White House.” The first lady chimed in: “We got out! They let us out!”
I think it’s a good thing for him to focus on getting out and doing things with his family, but I continue to cringe when I think of all the taxpayers money that is being spent on his flying around the country weekly just so he doesn’t have to spend all that time in the White House. Did he not have a clue about the restrictions a president is under before he decided he wanted the job?
In this depression recession, we need all our elected officials to consider the jobless and those just barely making do. Show us that you care enough to reign in your lifestyle a little. You may be living “high on the hog,” but you don’t have to flaunt it.