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President Obama has jetted off to his home state of Hawaii for some R&R with his family.<\/p>\n

I’ll be interested now for the next several days whether we’re going to hear any carping about the golf being played, or whether the first lady is spending a lot of money on shopping excursions, or whether the first daughters are behaving themselves.<\/p>\n

This kind of carping goes with the territory, I guess, and I am hoping that now — six years into the job — that the president and his family have grown used to it.<\/p>\n

Social media being what they are, criticism hits\u00a0cyberspace in swarms. It’s immediate, quite often mistaken and misplaced and also quite cruel.<\/p>\n

I recall a couple of other notable presidents who’d take lengthy vacations.<\/p>\n

* President Ronald Reagan would get holed up in his ranch near Santa Barbara, Calif., uttering hardly a peep in public. He’d come back down from his Rancho del Cielo refreshed and ready to take on the challenges of the day. You’d hear the occasional gripes from the media about the president’s lengthy hiatus, but hardly none of the nitpicking one hears today.<\/p>\n

* President George W. Bush liked to “clear brush” at his own ranch in Central Texas, near Crawford — which is near Waco. Again, the media would gripe about that time off, although my hunch is that they disliked hanging out in rural Texas, which I’m guessing lacks some of the creature comforts to which those big-city media hounds had grown accustomed.<\/p>\n

In both instances — and regarding vacations other presidents have taken — such criticism is unfounded and ridiculous.<\/p>\n

Barack Obama doesn’t have any planned public events while he’s enjoying Christmas with his clan in Hawaii. He’ll get his usual daily national security briefings and updates on other matters way back east\u00a0in Washington.<\/p>\n

For now, enjoy your time in the sunshine, Mr. President. A new Congress controlled by the “other party” awaits you when you return for the home stretch of your time in office. You’ll need all the rest you can get.<\/p>\n

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