Should Obama Avoid The Vineyard?
Should President Obama avoid a vacation this month in upscale Martha’s Vineyard? That’s what the political gurus are advising. Morning Joe Scarborough said the current discussion is reminiscent of Memorial Day Weekend 2010, when Obama insisted on relaxing in Chicago when many of his advisers were urging him to fly to the Gulf to show solidarity with victims of the BP oil spill. “He refused to do it, and got hammered for it politically,†Scarborough recalled. “We were told that ‘the president doesn’t do theater.’ I’m sorry, the president needs to do theater, baby.†But unlike Jackson Hole, where the Clintons had to go in 1996 for re-election purposes, the Vineyard is within spitting distance of D.C., should the Prez have to return to the confines of the Oval Office.
