Holier than thou-snake oil salesman gets all the perks and my business has turned into a seasonal business. I don't hunt so I'm picking out burlap sacks from dumpsters to make a teepee and I have a spot in the woods picked out. I hope I can buy a gun to protect myself. Gee wiz I guess I'll have to start hunting too.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-02-15/obama-eases-into-second-term-with-weekend-of-golf-in-florida.html
President Barack Obama spent last year’s Presidents Day weekend at the White House. This year, he lined up a trip with friends to an exclusive Florida golf course owned by a campaign supporter.
Obama golfed today with course owner Jim Crane, U.S. Trade Representative Ron Kirk, Chicago friend Eric Whitaker and businessmen Anthony Chase and Milton Carroll, according to White House spokesman Josh Earnest. Obama also played “a few holes” with Tiger Woods’ former coach Butch Harmon, who designed the club’s instructional facility, Earnest said.
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President Barack Obama waves after putting on the 9th hole at Mid-Pacific Country Club in this file photo. Photographer: Cory Lum-Pool/Getty Images
Obama flew on Air Force One yesterday from an official event to promote his economic proposals in his adopted hometown of Chicago to West Palm Beach, Florida, for the weekend getaway at the Floridian in Palm City while his wife and daughters are on a ski vacation.
Accompanying Obama on Air Force One was Whitaker, a Chicago friend who played golf with the president during the first family’s August 2010 vacation on Martha’s Vineyard off the Massachusetts coast.
With no election campaign ahead of him, Obama, 51, is beginning to embrace some of the political freedom that comes along with the lame-duck status of a second-term presidency. The White House has kept details about the weekend to a minimum.
Unemployment Rate Same Today As It Was When Obama First Took Office
http://washington.cbslocal.com/2013/01/21/unemployment-rate-same-today-as-it-was-when-obama-first-took-office/
WASHINGTON (CBSDC/AP) — Even though much has changed the past four years, President Barack Obama begins his second term with one thing that hasn’t: the unemployment rate.
When Obama first took office in January 2009, the unemployment rate was 7.8 percent. Today the unemployment rate is once again at 7.8 percent.
The unemployment rate rose as high as 10 percent during Obama’s first term before falling back down to 7.8 percent last November.
Unemployment rates fell in less than half of U.S. states last month, as steady but slow hiring is making only gradual improvement in the job market.
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