As TMZ put it Friday, when it published pictures of Obama grinning
and golfing at St. Andrews in Scotland: “Barack Obama’s not just on vacation — he’s on the most EPIC vacay, and it’s starting to feel like he’s rubbing it in your face.”
If everything is as dire as Democrats say, if the very Republic is in peril
and the leader of the free world is unstable, if President Trump is trying to trample on Obama’s legacy and gut Medicaid and rip up the social safety net, why is Obama acting so jolly and carefree?
And I’m not willing to give all that up to be president.”
Unlike Obama and W., Boehner is willing to speak out about Trump’s know-nothing
and hurt-everyone domestic policies, calling them “a complete disaster.”
Axelrod defended 43 and 44 on their reticence, saying it will help if they just emanate optimism
and “an alternative message,” as Obama did with a beaming Angela Merkel in Berlin last week.