Why he never left the White House until the day after:
After a few years, curiosity finally got to the former Washington Times reporter and he asked a low-level administration official why.
“I still remember what she said,” Curl wrote. “’So all of us can be with our families on Christmas.’”
“Who was ‘us’? Hundreds and hundreds of people, that’s who. Sure, the reporters who covered the president, but also dozens and dozens on his staff, 100 Secret Service agents, maybe more, and all of those city cops required whenever the president’s on the move in D.C.,” Curl added in his column.
However, things seemingly changed when Obama took office.
“[T]his president would never delay his trip to his island getaway. He’s off every year well before Christmas. Hundreds and hundreds head off with him, leaving family behind,” Curl wrote.
Some people have class, others are narcissists and leaches on the wealth of the taxpayer.
[Update a couple minutes later]
Barack Obama’s top ten violations of the Constitution this year. Note that this implies that there were many more.
I’m sure that Obama loves tormenting any figure involved with security, and absolutely loves wielding power over the masses. If it makes people miserable, it just makes him feel higher and mightier. He and many on the left are not anti-power, they are against those in power. I suppose you could say he and many on the left suffer from power envy, if that is a phrase. Thus, when they get power, they use it as often and as severely as they can. Just look at how Jim likes to boss people around as soon as the government is doing what he wishes, and how he laments when they are not.
So when Black Lives Matter and other so-called revolutionary groups protest the evil authority figures, I just assume they are angry because they aren’t the ones with the guns shoving people around.
I might be wrong with my history, but Jimmy Carter also treated the Secret Service like dogs. Some peacenik.
Didn’t Chelsea Clinton once refer to her secret service detail as ‘her pet pigs’
I read somewhere that she indeed did and was scolded for it. But this language was perhaps an immature choice of words as the story I have heard is that Ms. Chelsea Clinton was held in high regard by her security detail, at least in comparison to . . .
The other part of the story was she said something like “What’s the big deal? That’s what my parents call them.”
“Why would any peon want to be with their miserable, noisy families when they could be serving me?”
Well, at least some people, facing holiday drama with their extended families at home, really would prefer a paid trip to Hawaii.
Bush’s term in office made Obama inevitable. He stupidly committed to a long expensive “nation building” war in the middle east, expanded entitlements, was ineffectual and started too late trying to head off the housing crash and helped set a precedent for the use of executive orders. The fact he was a “nice guy” is as relevant as saying Hitler was a great dancer.
GWB did not originate the policy of remaining in the White House on Christmas Day, any more than Al Gore invented the Internet. It goes back to the Reagan Administration (at least).
I heard the same anecdote many years ago, but the names were different (Clinton and Reagan rather than Obama and Bush).
This article confirms my recollection:
http://hillbuzz.org/where-have-american-presidents-spent-christmas-traditionally
I’m sorry, Edward, but I missed the part where anyone said he originated it.
Are you familiar with the meaning of the word “news”?
Perhaps the next article will be about how George W. Bush had indoor plumbing at the White House. 🙂
I didn’t claim it was news, or that he was the first president to do it. I’m sorry you missed the point.
“George W. Bush was Santa, Obama is Scrooge”
The point seemed clear enough to me.
I thought the job of journalists was to report news, not deify (or Santa-fy) their favorite politicians. But I was wrong, if you say so.
And if you dig up an article claiming Dick Cheney is the Easter Bunny, I’ll believe that, too. 🙂