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To: bentway who wrote (624040)8/12/2011 12:33:55 PM
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Barack Obama faces calls to cancel summer holiday
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Barack Obama is facing calls to cancel his annual summer holiday in Martha's Vineyard and concentrate on steadying the US economy.

By Alex Spillius, Washington 2 Aug 2011
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/barackobama/8698284/Barack-Obama-faces-calls-to-cancel-summer-holiday.html

With the credit rating of the United States downgraded for the first time, and the stock markets on a rollercoaster ride, critics argue that relaxing on the exclusive Massachusetts island with his family for 10 days at the end of the month would send the wrong signal to voters.

Jay Carney, the White House spokesman, was forced to defend the president's holiday plans.

"I don't think Americans out there would begrudge that notion that the president would spend some time with his family," he said, adding that "there's no such thing as a presidential vacation".

"The presidency travels with you. And he will, of course, be fully capable, if necessary, of traveling back if that were required. It's not very far," he said.

Robert Shrum, a Democratic strategist generally supportive of the president, said: "The Congress and the president shouldn't be on vacation while tens of millions of Americans are on forced vacations in the form of unemployment."

The president faced similar criticism about his leisure time last year when he continued a visit to his home town Chicago during the early days of the BP oil spill.
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