Yeah, it's not as if the poor guy ever gets to go on vacation or play a round of golf . . . On her MSNBC show last night, Rachel Maddow fretted about everything that was on President Obama's plate, from devising his immigration amnesty, to dealing with Putin, to Ebola, to a US plane forced to land in Iran.
Concluded Maddow: "aren't you glad you're not President?" Really? When Barack Obama ran for the office back in 2008, think he figured the Oval Office would be a bowl of golf balls? Not to mention those few perks that come with the office. And once all the forced labor is finished, former presidents manage to put food on the table--take the $160 million-plus that Bill and Hillary have earned since leaving the White House.
Finally, I'm guessing there are some NewsBusters readers out there would who revise Rachel's statement along these lines: "aren't you sad he IS president?"
Note: Maddow claims that President Obama is leading a NATO effort that is "repeatedly punching Russian President Vladimir Putin in the kidney over and over again." If Obama is punching Putin in the kidneys, what is Putin doing to our president, and where?
RACHEL MADDOW: Any minute now, within the hour, actually, the president is due to arrive back at the White House from Wales. And according to him, what he said he's going to do on the plane by the time he lands, he will have read up on what he's going to do on immigration without Congress. President said earlier in the summer that he would make that announcement about immigration by the end of the summer. Look around you. It's the end of the summer. So, whatever that gets announced, that's going to be like a bag of minx playing with pop rocks, and he's also leading this NATO effort right now which is now repeatedly punching Russian President Vladimir Putin in the kidney over and over again. I mean, the president today said NATO is doing a partnership with two more little eastern European countries that Vladimir Putin likes to think he controls. The president announced today NATO would be doing new partnerships with Moldova and Georgia. That's going to upset Vladimir Putin. Oh, and by the way, we've got the global health emergency with multi-national ebola outbreak. Oh, and by the way, if that wasn't enough to gray the president's hair, today as he left Wales, a charter jet with approximately 100 Americans on board leaving Afghanistan today trying to fly to Dubai was basically forced down inside Iran. A plane full of Americans ordered to land inside Iran by Iranian air traffic controllers. That's in today's news. Aren't you glad you're not president?
