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bhikkhu

(10,789 posts)
7. Note the hideous matching couch and drapes
Sun Aug 24, 2014, 10:10 PM
Aug 2014

definitely a room designed for planning overseas wars in your pj's.

groundloop

(13,908 posts)
6. And in simpler terms that's about 22 days per year vs. 72 days per year
Sun Aug 24, 2014, 10:06 PM
Aug 2014

President Obama hasn't taken an extraordinary amount of vacation by any stretch of the imagination. *, on the other hand.......

Maru Kitteh

(32,005 posts)
5. I barely remember Grenada, but I wonder what the message here was?
Sun Aug 24, 2014, 08:42 PM
Aug 2014

Was the image supposed to show us that Grenada was so minor, silly, brown and small that it didn't even warrant putting on shoes? I can't imagine being in the service at the time and seeing Grampy there send me off to war in his outhouse attire.

MisterP

(23,730 posts)
8. "a major military bastion to export terror and undermine democracy. We got there just in time"
Mon Aug 25, 2014, 12:19 AM
Aug 2014

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