Per WH pool: Obama is golfing with Larry David, Robert Wolf (former President of UBS) and Jonathan Lavine (co-managing partner of Bain Capital)
The Advocate, a Baton Rouge paper on Obama:
www.theadvocate.com/...
“Now that the flood waters ravaging Louisiana are receding, it's time for President Barack Obama to visit the most anguished state in the union.
Last week, as torrential rains brought death, destruction and misery to Louisiana, the president continued his vacation at Martha’s Vineyard, a playground for the posh and well-connected.
We’ve seen this story before in Louisiana, and we don’t deserve a sequel. In 2005, a fly-over by a vacationing President George W. Bush became a symbol of official neglect for the victims of Hurricane Katrina. The current president was among those making political hay out of Bush’s aloofness...”
Now the criticism is being taken up by national media:
www.nbcnews.com/…
You’d think, at the least, he would go to support a Democratic governor. He hightailed it to NJ fast enough after Superstorm Sandy and made sure he had a photo-op with Christie.
Very disappointed.