Obama: I Stayed At HoJos, Not Resorts
Draws contrast to vacationing wealthy opponent. But his vacations as president have included Martha’s Vineyard and Hawaii.
POLAND, Ohio — Hours after Mitt Romney said he is campaigning so that more Americans can afford to take vacations, President Barack Obama recounted his far more modest upbringing than his wealthy opponent.
“Maybe you took a vacation every once in a while. It wasn’t some fancy vacation at some fancy resort,” Obama said, drawing an implicit contrast to Romney’s current family vacation on the picturesque Lake Winnipesaukee in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.
Obama recounted that the “best vacation I had when I was a kid” was traveling on trains and Greyhounds across the country, saying at Howard Johnson hotels.
“I was eleven, so there was any kind of swimming pool…it was very exciting,” Obama said. “You were very excited to go where the vending machine was and the ice machine and get the ice.”
Obama then launched into a critique of Romney, saying he is looking out for all Americans while the former Massachusetts governor is only worried about those who are rich like him.
Since his election, Obama has vacationed in Martha’s Vineyard and in Hawaii.
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Peter Fusco 11 months agoPerhaps if Obama’s entire family weren’t communists and his father stayed around and worked hard, he would have had a summer house in New Hampshire too.
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Stacy Lewis 11 months ago
With 10% more snark, this might have been a Wonkette piece. Or is the fact that there is no snark the actual snark? Why you so mysterious BuzzFeed
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harrisonfritz 11 months agoIs it so terrible that Romney earned all of his money in the private sector and is afforded the right to vacation wherever a private citizen may so choose? More divisiveness from our benevolent Commander-in-Chief.
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oOo 11 months agoNice Fox News hook at the end there. Reminds me of when I first figured out that Fox News was what it is. They were showing some massive protest against the war, aerial shot of hordes of people choking a major city street as far as the eye could see, and they covered the story and then right at the end the anchor goes. “Polls show most Americans support the war.” [cut to commercial]
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