L'homme vers qui tous les regards sont tournés en ces temps difficiles peut-il prendre des vacances? Les risques de le voir faire du vélo, s'amuser ou déguster une glace sont terribles ;)
"President Obama leaves today for a 10-day summer vacation on Martha’s Vineyard, a trip that Republicans are casting as inappropriate given the economic straits in which the country currently finds itself.
While Obama and his political team have offered little public comment about the criticism, it seems hardy coincidental that the White House announced Wednesday that the president would deliver a major speech on the economy shortly after Labor Day.
Start your clocks/stopwatches: The next 19 days — between today and Sept. 6 — will be a major political gauntlet for Obama to run as he seeks to defuse attacks on his vacation spot while preparing for a speech that he hopes will reset the jobs and economic debate heading into 2012.
While Obama has faced Republican fire each of the past two summers for vacationing in the tony Cape Cod enclave of Martha’s Vineyard, the ongoing struggles of the economy and the yo-yo-ing of the stock market — not to mention that he will stand for re-election next year — make the summer of 2011 a bit different.
Despite the potential political complications of images being beamed across the country of a president hiking, biking and eating ice cream (Four Seas is the best ice cream joint on the Cape) while the country’s economy continues to scuffle, the Obama White House has insisted that there will be no change in his plans.
“I don’t think Americans out there would begrudge that notion that the president would spend some time with his family,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters earlier this week, adding that Obama would still be working and that “... there’s no such thing as a presidential vacation.”"
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/post/president-obama-and-the-political-perils-of-summer-vacation/2011/08/17/gIQA95bFNJ_blog.html
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