Mrs. Obama's Vacation

[H2PM]

Dont care, move on.

 

Your saying you have power and your not going to use some of it once in a while...?

[Phuunhym]

Seems fine to me. The media over-hypes everything.

[Orpheus]

Eh, if it's her own funds, let her do as she pleases. It's not really hurting anyone.

[Sam]

There's no reason why she shouldn't be able to spend some time on holiday.

 

The media over-hypes everything.

[Wingless]

No one cares if she goes on a holiday. She's a human too, with needs to relax.

[magekillr]

Jesus Christ, man. Just when I thought the criticisms of these people didn't go overboard as it is.

 

1.) Leave Obama's family alone. They're not using government funds to do this, so who cares? Are you going to go down the list of every single politician and demand they not go on "lavish" vacations? If not, why not, as it speaks volumes of hypocrisy and unnecessary criticism.

 

2.) Criticizing stupid [cabbage] like this is why our media sucks. "Look at John Edwards' expensive haircut! What about John McCain's shoes? Why doesn't Nancy Pelosi eat at In and Out Burger instead of a ritzy hotel?" Ridiculous. Asking about whether or not a politician understands the common man is one thing; [bleep]ing about how they spend their money when money is relative is something else. How do you know the difference? Not by how much money McCain spends on his shoes, but when someone like Sharron Angle calls people on unemployment "spoiled."

 

3.) Leave Obama's family alone, focus on him, and make criticisms that actually matter! My god, every other day the Republicans make the stupidest criticism that has no bearing in reality and it's usually a lie. Then when someone like me comes up with an actual criticism that has merit--like Obama declaring he has the authority to kill American citizens suspected of terrorism without any due process--it gets ignored by [cabbage] like this.

 

My god, no wonder I can never have a conversation with a conservative in this country anymore. They're in the loony bin with criticisms that are flat out lies, or they flat out don't matter.

 

What would matter? If Obama himself spent one third of his presidency on vacation like Dubya did. That has merit. This does not. Some crap about Laura Bush on a lavish vacation would be equally ridiculous, or even if George took a lavish vacation, for that matter.

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Is any of that relevant to the topic though? It's Mrs. Obama taking a vacation, not the problems with American politics.

[magekillr]

Is any of that relevant to the topic though? It's Mrs. Obama taking a vacation, not the problems with American politics.

 

Of course it's relevant. This is a symptom of the nonsense cancer that is the American mainstream media.

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I've only really seen it on the internet, not so much in the mainstream news. I think it might have been on that Yahoo news ticker... The one that also has "cute" viral videos as news.

Thinking about it, yeah there are problems with the media. I'd put this in the same class as celebrity gossip, personally. It isn't even remotely political unless the author chooses to make it so. The fact that people care about that kind of thing is more a problem than the media knowing what a huge audience they are.