How attached to reality is Obama?

  "Ulsterman" is a pseudonym for an anonymous poster who claims to know someone on the inside of the Obama White House. Trustworthy? Who knows. He certainly makes for interesting reading.
  The problem with the writing for the skeptic is that it rings true. Very true. And consequent incidents reflect reality.
  The latest report is, well, disturbing:

President Obama, when he is in his de facto office upstairs – the one that is closer to Jarrett’s own office, and a short hop over to the residence, he spends his time there often in shorts, or sweats, a t-shirt, and those sandal things…flip-flops. There is a large screen television in there and that’s where hours of his time are spent when he is actually at the White House. Day in and day out. The First Lady rules the residence, and the president heads over to his 2nd floor West Wing study. Starting around last spring, he started to take regular briefings in there. And the instructions that went out on those briefings to the president were that they were to be most importantly – brief. Anything more than about 15 minutes is unacceptable to Obama. So let’s look through the eyes of someone heading into Barack Obama’s upstairs office at the White House to give him a briefing. Maybe it’s on national security. Maybe the economy. Energy policy. Whatever – doesn’t matter. The scenario being played out these days is pretty much the same regardless of the particulars. You knockon the door – it’s always closed. Always. Often you have to knock for some time before being given approval from inside to enter. The big screen will be on – the volume loud.

  Read the rest of it here.
  Again, it rings true because of the performance of POTUS in recent days. Ignoring terrible optics, POTUS continues to behave in a way completed detached from the reality of life for the average American.
  Take the most recent vacation. Not only did FLOTUS take a separate plane to the Vineyard, it appears she returned on a separate plane. Boston Herald:

The first family came in separate planes, and they’re leaving, ditto. Hey, it’s only money, our money.

  Over at Human Events, Dr. Zero describes the Martha's Vineyard vacation as "the strangest PR debacle of a weird presidency":

Barack Obama’s misadventures in Martha’s Vineyard are some of the stranger unforced public-relations errors in recent memory.  Spending a fortune to jet off to a fabled playground of the rich, while the country suffers from his recessionary economic policies, was a bizarre slap in the face to an electorate that has already come to view this President as arrogant and out-of-touch.  “Optics” matter.  Camp David is a nice vacation spot, too. 

  American Thinker has a breakdown of the numerous bills FLOTUS has run up for the taxpayers:

Take for instance how, after Obama encouraged America to save money by skipping vacation, less than 50 days after returning home from Oahu Michelle commissioned AF1 to ferry her as chaperone to a 2010 giggling-girls ski trip in Vail, Colorado.  Besides not heeding her husband's austerity advice, the first lady of healthy eating dined on ancho-chili short ribs at "141 grams of fat per serving."  Then, after dessert, she chose to camp out like a girl scout in the "upscale Sebastian Hotel on Vail Mountain, where rooms start at $650 a night and range up to more than $2,400 for multi-bedroom suites."  

Lest we forget, Michelle and her daughters spent time tasting and touring their way through New York City, sightseeing in Los Angeles, barbequing and memorializing on Memorial Day in Chicago, hiking in Maine, bobbing for tar balls on the Florida Gulf Coast, and recovering from a whirlwind of activity on an annual vacation in Chilmark. 

  And, as many Americans know, it goes on.
  Meanwhile, the crazy policies continue, including the demand for a more "diverse" federal workforce, which is already overrepresented with "diversity." Yahoo:

Though only 12 percent to 13 percent of the U.S. population, blacks hold 18 percent of all federal jobs. African-Americans are 25 percent of the employees at Treasury and Veterans Affairs, 31 percent of State Department employees, 37 percent of the Department of Education, 38 percent of Housing and Urban Development. They are 42 percent of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission and Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp., 55 percent of the Government Printing Office, 82 percent of the Court Services and Offender Supervision Agency.
According to The Washington Post, blacks hold 44 percent of the jobs at Fannie Mae and 50 percent of the jobs at Freddie Mac.
The EEOC, where African-Americans are overrepresented by 300 percent, has been asked to oversee the new "government-wide initiative to promote diversity and inclusion in the federal workforce."

  Pat Buchanan calls it a "race based spoils system." This, from a post-racial America headed by the first African American president.
  And the destruction of American businesses continues, particularly businesses owned by Republicans, even while POTUS claims he has a really big program announcement coming that will create lots of jobs. Federal taxpayer funded jobs, no doubt.