Cold Wave of Unrest Catches Barack Obama: London Times
Sunday, August 23, 2009 at 4:05PM PRESIDENT Barack Obama may have had a tough time picking his summer reading to take on holiday to Martha’s Vineyard this weekend. Three of the top five titles on the New York Times nonfiction hard-back bestseller list are currently anti-Obama screeds.
Obama was expected to arrive today at a rented estate on the popular island resort off the coast of Massachusetts after spending the earlier part of the weekend at Camp David, the presidential retreat in Maryland.
Earlier this month, he took his wife and children to Yellow-stone national park and the Grand Canyon. Before that, Michelle, Sasha and Malia joined him on business trips to London, Paris, Moscow and Ghana. For all his policy problems at home and abroad, no one is accusing the president of failing to exploit his limited opportunities for occasional R&R.
Yet the success of those torrid antiObama tomes suggests the president will have plenty to think about as he plays golf, basketball and tennis on the secluded facilities of Blue Heron Farm, the private estate where his family is expected to spend a week. more
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