Barack Obama's Martha's Vineyard Days to Come: Politico

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AP photo via PoliticoOf course, no one expects the First Family to rough it with a trailer in Yellowstone. But some locations may come off as more appropriate than others. It’s probably better that the First Family not be on a yacht in the Mediterranean, a lesson that French president Nicolas Sarkozy learned the hard way. When he was found off the coast of Malta on the luxury boat of a French billionaire, he was highly criticized – and unrepentant: “I've no intention of hiding. I've no intention of lying. I've no intention of saying sorry," he said later.

The Obamas have vacationed in Hawaii before, and they might have been expected to do so again. But Martha’s Vineyard offers a less exotic, more subtly presidential image. Though it can be considered a playground of the rich, the Vineyard is preppy, but not snobby, wealthy but not gauche, powerful, but not without a populist touch. “It is a rich community, but they downplay it in all the right ways,” said Christopher Tennant, author of “The Official Filthy Rich Handbook.” “It would be far worse to go to Nantucket. Nantucket is more New York, more jet set, more Hamptons. Martha’s Vineyard is more the Massachusetts vacation. You take a ferry out there. There are more day trippers and families.” more