Re: Obama Presidential Thread XIX: Starting a new chapter
I'd rather be a well known tea partier than a well known union goon. I don't care about presidential vacations, days off, etc. And what they cost is a matter of no concern, since providing security for the first family is a matter of federal law. As a general rule, these complaints fall into the category of cheap shots.
As to the diet for POTUS and FLOTUS, again it's a matter of no concern to me, except Mrs. Big Bottom, like so many of her liberal bretheren and sisteren, has made a national nag of herself on the question of "eating right," and it wouldn't seem to be expecting too much for her to keep her guilty pleasures from the public. I also don't care if Hussein I smokes. He's got a tough job. It's not illegal. And he evidently makes a great effort to avoid being seen doing it. So if lighting up occasionally helps him get through his days, so what?
We have become a nation of Edna May Olivers, fussbudgets constantly poking our noses into the private lives of our fellow citizens and finding fault. Was it H. L. Mencken who defined a Puritan as someone who lies awake at night, knowing that somewhere somebody is having a good time. And there's nothing he can do about it. Being a nosy pecksniff is not an appropriate ambition.
note: please spare all of us an exegesis about the "evils" of smoking. I'm a former smoker. So keep it to yourself. We know what you're thinking.
I'd rather be a well known tea partier than a well known union goon. I don't care about presidential vacations, days off, etc. And what they cost is a matter of no concern, since providing security for the first family is a matter of federal law. As a general rule, these complaints fall into the category of cheap shots.
As to the diet for POTUS and FLOTUS, again it's a matter of no concern to me, except Mrs. Big Bottom, like so many of her liberal bretheren and sisteren, has made a national nag of herself on the question of "eating right," and it wouldn't seem to be expecting too much for her to keep her guilty pleasures from the public. I also don't care if Hussein I smokes. He's got a tough job. It's not illegal. And he evidently makes a great effort to avoid being seen doing it. So if lighting up occasionally helps him get through his days, so what?
We have become a nation of Edna May Olivers, fussbudgets constantly poking our noses into the private lives of our fellow citizens and finding fault. Was it H. L. Mencken who defined a Puritan as someone who lies awake at night, knowing that somewhere somebody is having a good time. And there's nothing he can do about it. Being a nosy pecksniff is not an appropriate ambition.
note: please spare all of us an exegesis about the "evils" of smoking. I'm a former smoker. So keep it to yourself. We know what you're thinking.
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