Vacationing in the state you were born in and visiting your grandma is exotic. I guess I am off the hook, since my grandparents are all dead and WV is not my idea of a vacation. Good to know in case I run for President.
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Carnacki
John, WV is a great place to vacation. Visit Blackwater Falls State Park or any other fine state park. See here for more vacation ideas. /state pimping
Fr33d0m
I was going to say something similar. W.VA. is one of the most beautiful states once you get away from urbania.
Dennis - SGMM
But he’s not “acting presidential like that ol’ Obama was in Europe. After the outrage that erupted when Pelosi visited Syria I thought that the R’s were opposed to having folks outside of the administration conduct diplomacy. With Lieberman and Huckleberry Graham on the job we’ll be lucky if WWIII doesn’t result.
Walker
The New River Gorge is arguably the best white water rafting on the east coast. I went there several times (from NC) when I was in high school.
John Cole
I live in WV, have lived here for 34 of my 38 years, love it in WV, and want to vacation elsewhere.
Call me crazy.
bleh
Dontcha love it? Lived in WV, can’t wait to get away. Didn’t live there, love it to vacation.
As someone who straddles it perfectly (family from there, lived there VERY briefly, do all necessary family visitations there, have nieces & nephews who grew up there and now are entering adulthood but did that elsewhere myself), I gotta say, I agree with everybody!
Just like where I grew up — a Caribbean vacation spot — a really nice place to visit, but you wouldn’t wanna live there.
rawshark
I know people who have to brown bag it for lunch who have been to Hawaii.
SpotWeld
The best part of that attack, if Obama did take a vacation and do something “typically American” he would have, of course, thrown his grandparents under the bus by subjecting them to an elitist snub.
As for vacation, I hear that the Dogfish Head Brewery (and distillery) in Delaware has a great tour.
The Dangerman
There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and then the Liberal Media bias. It’s absurd on it’s face.
Then again, I think the motivation of the MSM is based on the 2000 experience; they got fat, drunk, and happy of a long drawn out affair. They want a horse race and they know McCain has pulled up lame.
Michael G
Actually Panama is a little exotic.
Joshua Norton
It’s OK to go on a vacation, but you have to go to a hell hole and be miserable. Like maybe a Motel 6 in Bakersfield. God forbid you enjoy yourself or the Walmart Repubs will tear you apart.
cmorenc
Yes, but in West Virginai, you can marry your first cousin and take her on a camping and whitewater-rafting honeymoon. Nowhere else can you do that combination, which is pretty darn exotic in my book.
cmorenc
Yes, but in West Virginia, you can marry your first cousin and take her on a camping and whitewater-rafting honeymoon. Nowhere else can you do that combination, which is pretty darn exotic in my book.
CAVEAT: Even in West Virginia, they don’t let you marry your first cousin if, on the other side of your family, she’s also your sister.
vishnu schizt
Yes Hawaii is exotic. $550 loafers, owning 10 homes, and being a kept man, not so much. God help us.
Jon H
“With Lieberman and Huckleberry Graham on the job we’ll be lucky if WWIII doesn’t result.”
McCain’s just sending out his Loser Squad of failed former contenders for the presidency.
Kevin
I wouldn’t wish that on anyone.
sdstarr
I thought Obama was born in the beating heart of Nigeria.
Or that he wasn’t born at all, but is instead some sort of mineral. Minerals are not eligible to be president.
Jim
The utter vapidness and stupidity of American journalism is really one of the most depressing aspects of our nation. As bad as this administration may be, it will be gone. The hacks who call themselves journalists will continue with their hackery unabated.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
O/T:
Why do the troops hate America? Don’t they understand that you have to put country first?
Troops Deployed Abroad Give 6:1 to Obama?
stickler
Bakersfield Motel 6? Why all the hate?
Here, for example, is the Motel 6 … at the Bakersfield Airport.
Only wimps want to prove their manhood by staying at the downtown Bakersfield Motel 6. Real men stay at the Airport Motel 6.
Richardson
Come on, we all know the only reason Obama went to Hawaii was to alter his birth certificate one final time.
Meanwhile, deep in the heart of Africa, a team of crack Maasai agents await their final instructions. A new Mau Mau uprising is at hand, and first they’re coming for the Hawaiians!
myiq2xu
Since when is Monica Crowley a liberal?
myiq2xu
Sorry, that should be Cokie Roberts.
Actually, either one.
All the so-called liberals in the media seem to hate liberalism and real liberals as much or more than conservatives do.
PeakVT
The truth is that vacation itself is pretty exotic for many Americans.
Carnacki
My favorite vacation spot is Ocracoke, but this year we’ll be staying close to home and will probably hit Blackwater.
Dave_Violence
Gaulley Season is quite awesome. Excellent roads, fun mountains, good gun laws (meaning, few). I guess if you live there, it must get tiresome, eventually.
Hawaii, on the other hand, is exotic, expensive, and not readily accessible for those of us living CONUS.
For me, the best place on earth is the Mohave Desert.
Nikki
What…you’re joining our side again?
cleek
Obamanite can do anything it wants
Carnacki
John, just saw Tom Searls, the political writer at the Charleston Gazette, just passed away.
dslak
No. He doesn’t mean by ‘liberal’ what others mean by it.
Alan Black
Also, if donations from US troops favour one candidate by six to one, and the the same figure applies to donations from sports team owners but in favour of the other candidate, the latter will find its way to the front page of Politico with all the tones of another “bad news for Obama” piece of turd.
khead
No worries John. You can vacation in WV all you want and not worry about elitism charges – WV is a red state now.
I suggest you fire up the ATV and head on down to Pineville in Wyoming County.
jake
Yep. And it has been another edition of John McCane: EPIC FAIL.
Christ. Here’s a man who can’t be bothered to show up to vote for bills he champions but Obama goes to visit his granny and people start screaming about that Exotic Elitist Slacker. And look! He’s eating ice cream with a little Caucasian girl! O NOES!
Neal
My mother owns land in Hawaii. She would have retired there by now if the market hadn’t gone crazy.
I actually went there once myself. Lahaina Jodo Mission would have to be one of the best places in the world…same with the Haleakala crater.
So, what I’m saying here is that I must be a muslim. That’s all.
Hedley Lamarr
Some day when Steve Roberts is subbing for Diane Rehm, we need to call in to ask Steve what his wife has against going back to one’s birthplace to visit one’s granny.
Dennis - SGMM
Obama’s Hawaii vacation was a bad thing because War Hero for Life John McCain has declared that “we’re all Georgians now.” The Obamas should have vacationed in Tbilisi.
cleek
i went to Hawaii when i was ten. i had honey-dipped fried chicken from room service at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel in Waikiki beach. it was the best chicken i ever had. candy bars there cost 50 cents, in 1980.
ever since then, i’ve noticed that i sometimes find myself acting in ways which appear to be intended to foment rebellion against the Federal government. i’ll do something treasonous, then, in a flash, i’ll seemingly wake up and wonder what i’m doing. i only know about these things i do from what witnesses tell me. i don’t remember them myself.
while i can’t be sure, i fear the little black tiki idol i found in a cave on Maui, and which i now keep on a cord around my neck, is cursed and leads me to do these things. i can’t take it off, though, for it is precious to me.
i hope Obama doesn’t find any cursed idols on his vacation. or that he hasn’t already found one…
Hubris
True Americans “vacation” in a pool of their own beer vomit outside the Piggly Wiggly on Highway 17.
Tangentially, I’m from WV and just about everyone in our town would vacation in Myrtle Beach (before they built the Hard Rock Cafe–that’s the devil’s business).
Grumpy Code Monkey
Several years ago my wife and I vacationed on the Big Island. We struck up a conversation with one of the locals, and I asked her where Hawaiians went on vacation.
“Vegas, of course!”
qwerty42
Well, if “we’re all Georgians now” maybe he should vacation in Atlanta.
Punchy
I went to All-Good Festival last summer just outside of Morgytizzle (Masontown?). It was titties. Lots o’ trees, nice peeps, great weather. Methinks Worst Virginia is a great place to vaca….
The Grand Panjandrum
I love that NYT article and in particular this quote from NRP:
Unlike a sitting President playing air guitar while a grand old American city drowned a guy running for President is supposed to conduct foreign policy (until he actually does!) and pretend to be President. Confused? Not me. We are talking about the people that thought invading a third world country would be a cake walk and the little brown people would be grateful for us coming to save them from themselves. I’m not sure whats more fun; listening to, and reading about, John McCain and the Right Wing, or having my flesh ripped off by someone wielding a pair pliers.
These rat-bastards have no shame, do they?
Punchy
She’s cleary eaten a few liberals. From the looks of things, high-calorie ones to boot.
KXB
So, if “real” Americans vacation in Myrtle Beach, and Hawaii is too “exotic”, where does that leave those of us who have not been to either place? Plus, maybe I’m not pro-family enough, but how is spending time with the family a vacation? In my case, I save all vacation days so I can spend Christmas and New Year’s at my parents place on Long Island – the part that is more like Queens than the Hamptons, and the first thing I get to hear for that sacrifice is, “You don’t come home enough.”
peach flavored shampoo
That’s Candy Crowley, je pense que. dumas.
Grumpy Code Monkey
Disneyland.
cmorenc
Someone should ask Cokie Roberts when: 1) her last Myrtle Beach vacation was; 2) her last Hawaii vacation was.
…and no, being there for one night for a late January/early February presidential debate does NOT count as a Myrtle Beach “vacation”.
CapMidnight
Obama shoulda just called, “Party at th Roberts‘s!” an showed up in th Cokester‘s all-American backyard for vacation, holdin a Stars n Stripes, an his campaign staff draggin kegs, as house gifts.
wasabi gasp
Flying on a plane over the ocean to a sunny beach is elitist. Flying off the handle in your flooded basement during a power outage – not so much.
Gus
If I could afford it I’d vacation in Hawaii twice a year. I spent a week on the Big Island once, and they don’t call it paradise for nothing. In addition to the beautiful scenery, beaches and weather, they have the world’s best coffee and the Kona Brewery.
libarbarian
Visit Blackwater Falls State Park or any other fine state park.
Stop pimping for Blackwater, you fascist :).
John PM
Places Obama should have gone on “vacation” instead of Hawaii:
Branson, Missouri – a swing state that would allow Obama to make inroads among the country and western set. Also could have crossed into Arkansas for a day for some hiking and “huntin”; could ask John Kerry where to get license.
Wisconsin Dells – another potential swing state, although Obama has been leading in all polls so far. Would allow him to make inroads with “hard working white” cheeseheads, as long as he did not wear a Chicago Bears jersey.
Kings Island, Mason, Ohio – Yet another swing state, and also located near Kentucky. Nothing would have done more to destroy the elist charge than seeing Obama on a few roller coasters and eating some fried food on a stick. I would recommend that he order a cheeseburger with a “fried cheese brick” which is just as appetizing as it sounds. No one who eats that can be accused of being elistist. However, Obama would have to avoid being seen near Kings Island’s replica of the Eiffel (sp) Tower, or all of his hard work would be undone.
bootlegger
West Virginia is soooo exotic. Particularly to us elitist Kentuckians.
cain
According to the “Times of India”, he carries a idol of Hanuman keychain. He’s fucked. Wait till our liberal press finds out that he’s carrying a non-christian idol. Since he’s blaspheming against Christianity, it proves he’s a muslim!
cain
Krista
Um, Ms. Roberts? It’s none of your fucking business where the man takes his vacations.
Goddamn, is it just me, or has the media grown exponentially more stupid, offensive and annoying just in this past year?
TenguPhule
It’s not you. SATSQ.
Was great to have Obama drop in the neighborhood.
Couldn’t go to see him directly though, really crowded.
As a nice touch though, the rain threatening during the day held off until after he’d finished speaking and left.
Suck on that, GOP Fundies.
KRK
First cousins can marry in Hawaii, but NOT in West Virginia. Who’s exotic now, huh?
John Cole
The running joke is that Myrtle Beach is the southernmost city in West Virginia.
Seriously- you go there and it is like a High School reunion. So many West Virginians vacation there it is one of the few places outside WV you can get pepperoni rolls, which are a WV thing.
YellowJournalism
I don’t know why, but this brought up an image of McCain throwing his back out while learning to hula.
How ageist of me!