President Obama didn’t just go on vacation this week, he got outta Dodge.  With every day, more headlines emerge suggesting that the White House timed the president’s absence….perfectly.

Wouldn’t you want to dodge a press conference if your week looked like this?

1-Congressional Black Caucus wants to confront Obama on 16% unemployment among Black Americans and demand explanation for presidential tour in “white” America.

2-Unemployment figures released showing joblessness has jumped in 28 states.

3-Economic warning signs worsen as European markets and Wall Street continue to sink.

4- Price of gold almost to $2000 an ounce, while dollar is worth…..less and less.

5- Million dollar luxury presidential buses arrive, paid for by taxpayers, and immediately used for campaign tours.

6- Announcement that Obama has been spending at least 30 percent of his work days  FUNDRAISING for re-election, when Americans are praying that he’s watching over the store.

7- Press discovers that the price tag for the Obama’s summer vacation is $50,000 a week.

8-White House delivers gift-wrapped present to hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants by suspending deportation, just in time to help Latino leaders and voters to “feel the love” for the re-election of Barack Obama.  Without consultation with Congress, Governors, or Homeland Security.

8- President’s approval rating dips below 40%, and no sitting president in fifty years has been re-elected with such numbers.

Which takes us back to #7.  That’s WHY the slowdown on deportation hearings.  Obama has been losing support in the Latino community because Hope and Change haven’t delivered…..any.  There are no jobs, higher prices  at grocery stores, exploding gas prices  strangling starter Hispanic families, and their biggest hope,  public schools, are suffering in every city in America.

Obama strategists made the logical move.   Executive Order a halt of deportation to give the President a boost in the Latino community.

It might work….as long as national Latino leaders ignore the  administration’s record for the past two and a half years when 400,000 illegal immigrants were deported each year.

Fiesty Arizona Governor Jan Brewer is having none of it.  The deportation move is a distraction.

Instead of making a national initiative of securing the borders, Obama makes a move to improve his image.

We are desperate for a real national leader and no one knows it better than Barack Obama.

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Filed under: Economy, Featured, Inside The KC, Politics, Sonja Eddings Brown, Uncategorized by Sonja Eddings Brown, Aug 20, 2011