Obama Chooses Health Care Bill Over a Trip to Indonesia, Australia and Guam
Hey, President Obama—when you've just finished watching the House vote on the controversial Health Care bill, where are you going to go? It's not the Super Bowl, so you're not going to DisneyWorld, but we hear that you would have been taking off on Sunday before the vote for a lovely little tour around Indonesia, Australia and Guam, but that it's now postponed until June.
We like to imagine that that's how it'd be if we were President. Every time we overcome a hurdle, whether or not it comes out in our favor, we'd head somewhere tropical (maybe or maybe not Guam), and lift morale while getting our international diplomacy action on.
Obama postponed his Asia trip twice already to see the health care vote through, and just this morning he postponed it again until June, ruling against dashing off this weekend in Air Force One as he in favor of taking his time with both the health care bill and his trip. It's too bad he has to wait to go; we understand the cabin fever of winter, and the Washington Post talked to Mike McCurry, a Clinton-period spokesman to remind us of an important fact, however:
The president, he said, 'can celebrate, commiserate, cajole or compel long-distance. Air Force One has a bunch of phones, including the red one. And I rather suspect the press will be there to record any word that needs to get uttered.'
Indonesia isn't mad about the postponement, but with only two days' notice, we understand if they can't get their deposits back on flowers, champagne or other festivities. That's why we'll gladly volunteer to go to Indonesia, Australia and Guam in Obama's place. We're no President, but you take what you can get at times like these. Gas up Air Force One!
Related Stories:
· Obama's plans to travel overseas as health care vote nears draws criticism [Washington Post]
· House to Hold Crucial Health Care Vote Sunday [Voice of America]
· Presidential Travel news [Jaunted]
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