Looks like President Barack Obama has finally had it with naysayers who criticize his brief family vacations, even though Obama has taken off half of the time that former President George W. Bush did at this point in the presidency.
Fresh from spending last weekend hiking with his family around Acadia National Park in Maine, Barack is already sitting down to plan the next getaway, and it'll definitely be a working vacation as the first family is due to hit the oil-plagued beaches of the Gulf Coast. The AP reports that they'll be down south for the weekend of August 14. This will be Obama's fifth visit to the area since the BP oil began leaking, and it's a second visit for Michelle.
So what's the point of vacationing on supposedly oil-slicked beaches for the weekend? Well, the motive is apparently to encourage tourism to return to the areas and to prove that not everywhere is affected by the BP oil spill. Pensacola better get ready to break out their Fourth of July decorations and patriotic swag again...
[Photos: Stringer/AFP/Getty/Mrs.O]
