Sometimes stories just write themselves. Or in this case, sometimes the Associated Press writes them.
This cloying AP story explains that being the so-called leader of the so-called free world is tiring. Very tiring, indeed.
CAPITAL CULTURE: Big first year leaves Obama tired
After a sleepless, overnight flight to Oslo to accept the Nobel Peace Prize earlier this month, President Barack Obama made a not altogether surprising admission. He was tired.
Who could blame him? The president was on his ninth foreign trip to his 21st country; he added a 10th trip the following week. The year had been bookended by the two most intense periods of his young presidency – the early decisions to bail out the nation’s banks and automobile industry, steps the president deemed unpopular but necessary, and his December orders to deploy 30,000 additional U.S. troops to fight the war in Afghanistan.
Throw in an unemployment rate in the double-digits, a health care bill still stuck on Capitol Hill, and last-minute negotiations on a global climate change agreement, and aides say it’s no secret that the president is tired, and looking forward to recharging during his year-end family vacation in Hawaii.
Obama himself has been candid about the pressures of being president during what he has called an “extraordinary year.”
“You have a convergence of factors that have made this a difficult year not so much for me but for the American people,” he said in an interview with CBS News last month. “Absolutely that weighs on me.”
That weight was particularly striking during the president’s exhaustive, three-month review of the U.S. strategy in Afghanistan. Images of a visibly tired Obama, his black hair now flecked with gray, greeting the bodies of fallen soldiers at Dover Air Force Base and walking through rows of headstones at Arlington National Cemetery sparked rumors that he was skipping meals and losing weight.
Why that poor, tired man. Who would have thought that socializing the American economy could be such hard work?
Might we humbly offer a suggestion, Mr. President? If you’re really as tired as you say, take a nap every afternoon. Lay off the golf. And the photo shoots for all those magazine covers. And the appearances on all those TV shows. And the bowing to foreign dignitaries. Especially the bowing to foreign dignitaries.
Source: Associated Press
This post was last modified on December 29, 2009
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You are correct he is tired because he was never up for the job in the first place. He built his life on excuses and handouts. What do you expect.
What bogus right wing bullshit! (Yeh, sometimes stories DO just make themselves up!)
How sad that you ignorant bastards have to make up such crap. Obama is NOT tired and is superior in EVERY manner to the miserable excuse for 'president' we suffered through for the previous 8 years with GW. And you idiots just LOVED GW!
How sad to be a Republican and take such pride in your ignorance. You can collectively kiss my 'liberal' ass.
Look Ivan, if you think your pissy now, wait until election day, when America starts to clean up what they see as the problem, PROGRESSIVE/SOCIALIST/MARXIST Dems. Obama has never run anything before becoming President, now he is running America into the ground. BTW, Bush is gone away now, so you & your idoit progressives can stop b!tch!ng about him.
As for Republicans, you don't get it. The GOP is being cleaned up by CONSERVATIVES, by people like Rubio in FL, or Williams in TX. As for kissing your 'liberal' ass, not gonna do it. But if you ever got into my face in person like you just did here, kicking your 'liberal' ass would be a pleasure, so settle down.
Funny how the libs always state how stories, news, and videos are fake. Even when hard physical and proven facts exist. I guess only the stories that fits your little world are true Ivan louis Biggin. Time to grow up and stop tossing the "liar liar pants on fire defense". Get out of the sand box already and become an American. Face it we are ment to support the health and benifits of other Americans. Never should we stand for nor support a tyrant who wishes to destroy our nation, and harm Americans from within. The blind eye will no longer surfice to live in a free nation. It takes strength and dedication to freedom to live free. Those who blindly follow a rat into a hole deserve to be devoured by the serpent in wait.
Most of you hate Obama for playing golf?
You're all retarded
No, we don't hate him for playing golf....what frosts me is that he could only spare 20 minutes with General McChrystal for a meeting on war strategy, arguably THE most important meeting he had up to that point. And don't give me the "he was already over there anyway for the Olympics pitch" BS! He can surely fly to Chicago for a dinner with Oprah's chef, so he could have jetted off to any corner of the globe to have an in depth meeting with his top general in Afghanistan.
Guess it's priorities.
Oh yeah, nice work on the name calling.
Thanks
By the way. Let's think of this. What would McCain have done in this situation?
Yeah right I hate Obama because he is black did you hate Bush because he is white...?
You see how that works? It is moronic.
I wonder if Anoyn supported Bush as well...
C’mon Ursula. Obama could never be confused, compared, or likened to Jesus. What he is is a Chicago-style near-zero experienced politician that surrounds himself with radicals that really don’t like this country. He finds his radical socialist ideas at odds with the majority of people. As for his color, only left-leaning closet racists bring his race into focus. The vast majority of those opposed to his radicalism look beyond race to see the man and his vision of America. And what they see they don’t like.
Its also time to quit blaming Bush. Obama had a hand in the mess we are in. obama, however, will make sure your progeny pay the price for the accesses of his administration by leaving them a multi-trillion debt and a deficit that is a mockery to anyone that has any sense of fiscal responsibility. To add insult to injury, he wants to grow the government even more, increase spending on entitlements and the like. One thing you must get your head around is this: The bigger the government, the more taxes it consumes, the longer you have to work to pay your share. You are essentially an indentured servant – a slave – until you have your share paid. How deeply into slavery are you prepared to allow yourself to sink?
Before he does irreparable harm to this country he must be stopped. Now.
they talked about Jesus.. Hey wake up America it is going to take a minute for President Obama to starighten up Bush's mess. Stop hating on the man because he is black and start supporting him because he is our president. Except it , live with it and be happy with it. We are the only country of people who hate on itself. It is ridiculous. Obama is doing his thing and I support him all the way.
"Stop hating on the man because he is black and start supporting him because he is our president."
Ah, the race card! You need to find a new dead horse to beat because this is getting old!
Keep going Obama. YOu will get there. I suppose it would be tiring. Trying to fix others errors and motivate an ignorant, overweight, uneducated consumer, sheep society that do nothing but whinge.
Through all of the whinging that these people do none of them are leaders and basically have no idea and wouldn't know a tiring day if they "worked" for a day.
Keep trying and one day the irresponsible morons will eventually get that they should support their leader instead of crying like babies.
Arrianna Hufffington on MSNBC w/ Ed Shultz on Brown’s election night says "the President needs on the job training" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN6qtAmHfiM Isn't this just that expensive course of concern we all dreaded?
Obama - so, so tired of that dagnabit thing called work.
Can't he just eat his waffle and shoot hoops and play golf?
Whadyamean responsibilities?
Whouldathought destroying America was so much work?
Up until the Obama Presidency(so-called), I'd never seen jug-ears on a pile of shit.