A little rest

Family Vacations

By Andrés Moreno

Mauricio Guzman

            Last week, came into president Obama’s life as a twist, that not only shake his life, but that also blows his vacation trip.  On Tuesday, the state of Virginia report an earthquake of 5.8 magnitudes, as president Obama was taking a 10 days vacation trip on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, being the focus of the critics of the Republicans party members, as well as some part of the mediums and the American people.  And finally, on Friday, president Obama cut his family vacations, due to hurricane Irene, which will landfall later that day.

            During the same family vacations trip, Libya, a country from Africa, which has being into ‘civil war’ during this year, informed the whole world about the entrance of the revolutionary forces into Tripoli’s streets, which were Muamar el-Gadaffi headquarters.  While Libyans put a price for Gadaffi’s head, Barack Obama the president of US was saying that the resources which were supposed to go to the revolutionary forces on Libya (the power acknowledge by the US), were going to be send right away, that statement start to fired the critics to Obama’s program which barely do it with the debt ceiling debate, and which represent lots of cuts.

            With the earthquake on Mineral, VA. Critics over president Obama, who did not felt the earthquake on his vacation trip even though some of his companions did while he was at the golf course.  Some pictures were taken by the press that surrounds the island of Martha’s Vineyard and that shows a total relax and carefree president Obama for some minutes, but then when he was notice of what was happening, he took his cell phone and did a one hour call in order to give instructions to solve this natural disaster.  But neither, this reactions calm the critics over him, because this family vacations came in the worst moment for president Obama.

            For the end of the week and following his own instructions to the civilians, president Obama left the island of Martha’s Vineyard to go to the White House and wait there for the landfall of hurricane Irene, which left so far 20 people dead on the United States and millions on damages, as well as 2 million people without electrical power on Sunday.  

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