To Comfort The Afflicted
And Afflict The Comfortable

To Comfort The Afflicted And Afflict The Comfortable

Sunday, June 15, 2025

Observercast

The Real Obama

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BY ALEXANDER COCKBURN The White House that shook in Tuesday’s earthquake has been home to its present incumbent for 32 months. President Obama wasn’t around to watch the furniture shake. He’s up on Martha’s Vineyard for the third year in a row with Michelle and their two daughters, bunkered in a $25,000-a-week holiday rental on a lush 28-acre estate in the little town of Chilmark. He’s keeping a low profile. Words like “standoffish” roll petulantly […]

Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton
Arnold Hamilton became editor of The Observer in September 2006. Previously, he served nearly two decades as the Dallas Morning News’ Oklahoma Bureau chief. He also covered government and politics for the San Jose Mercury News, the Dallas Times Herald, the Tulsa Tribune and the Oklahoma Journal.