MICHELLE'S TRAVELS WILL TRIGGER BACKLASH By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Publis

MICHELLE'S TRAVELS WILL TRIGGER BACKLASH By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN Published on DickMorris.com on August 11, 2010 Printer-Friendly Version During the early Clinton years -- 1993 and 1994 -- the first couple vacationed in Martha's Vineyard hobnobbing with celebrities and cruising on Ted Kennedy's yacht.  The result was that during each of the two summers, as they into the surf, so they dived in the polls.  The last drop, after the summer of 1994, played a role in their loss of their Congressional majorities a few months later.  Now Michelle Obama is making the same mistake...and at a worse time.   Voters are highly sensitive to where their elected officials vacation, especially when they themselves cannot afford a vacation and have to take a "stay-cation" instead.  Now, with unemployment at almost ten percent and underemployment reaching nearly twenty, voters are not likely to take any vicarious pleasure from the recreation of the first family -- particularly since they are paying for it.   Not much goes on during the summer.  And stories about the First Lady's travel will find plenty of dead air time to fill on TV news shows and in newspaper columns.     Some have compared Michelle Obama's travels to those of former First Lady Hillary Clinton.  But -- rushing to Hillary's defense (which we don't often do) her trip schedules were filled with visits to day care centers, women's shelters, village health programs, and the like.  The only official event on Mrs. Obama's schedule is a lunch with the King and Queen of Spain.  Part of the problem is that Hillary hated vacations and Michelle, obviously, does not.  But the political damage Mrs. Obama's trip will leave behind will hurt her husband's efforts to keep control of Congress in November.   And, they will compound the damage by vacationing in Martha's Vineyard after her return from Spain.  We already know how that plays in the polls. I urged the Clintons to vacation in the Rockies -- to go camping, after my polling suggested that such a trip would be much more popular to voters than splashing with celebrities in the Vineyard.  They did just that in 1995 and 1996.  They both hated every minute of it.  But they did it and the polls reflected their efforts.   Now Michelle needs to learn a lesson in desperation from the Clintons.   Carl Ray Louk "FRIENDSHIP NEVER ENDS" SG-1996 "LET LOVE LEAD THE WAY" SG-2000 "THE PHOENIX SHALL RISE" SD "EVEN A MAN WHO IS PURE IN HEART AND SAYS HIS PRAYERS BY NIGHT, MAY BECOME A WOLF WHEN THE WOLFBANE BLOOMS AND THE AUTUMN MOON IS BRIGHT." LT-1941 "FLESH OF MY FLESH; BLOOD OF MY BLOOD; KIN OF MY KIN WHEN SAY COME TO YOU, YOU SHALL CROSS LAND OR SEA TO DO MY BIDDING!" CVTD-1895 "FROM HELL'S HEART I STAB AT THEE, FOR HATE SAKE I SPIT MY LAST BREATH AT THEE" CA-1895  "I HAVE BEEN, AND ALWAYS SHALL BE YOUR FRIEND" Spock  "TRICK OR TREAT, TRICK OR TREAT CANDY IS DANDY BUT MURDER, OH MURDER, IS SO SWEET" CRL-2003  "EYE OF NEWT, AND TOE OF FROG, WOOL OF BAT, AND TONGUE OF DOG ADDER'S FORK, BLIND-WORM'S STING, LIZARD'S LEG, AND OWLET'S WING. FOR A CHARM OF POWERFUL TROUBLE, LIKE A HELL-BROTH BOIL AND BABBLE. DOUBLE, DOUBLE, TOIL AND TROUBLE, FIRE BURN, AND CALDRON BUBBLE" WS MySpace.com: www.myspace.com/carlraylouk http://www.myspace.com/carlraylouk Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : LouksHauntedGraveyardhttp://groups.yahoo.com/group/LouksHauntedGraveyard/ Yahoo Group: Yahoo! Groups : TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk http://groups.yahoo.com/group/TheWorldAccordingtoCarlRayLouk/