ANOTHER TRIP?  I HOPE HE HAS GOOD LUGGAGE - AT 8:40 A.M. ET:  I know this will shock readers, so please sit down.  There's unusual news this morning:  President Obama is going on a campaign trip.

Yeah, that's right.  Another one.  In that big plane.  On our dime.  And they'll take the limo too.  The one with the DVD player.   The Politico gives us the exciting details:

President Barack Obama's two-day visit to Florida beginning Monday marks his first personal outreach to Democrats there heading into 2010 and indicates how determined his White House is to compete for the state in 2012.

This trip, more than any the president has taken since January, looks like a campaign swing. The itinerary and the events are crafted to accentuate positives – health care and the economy are not on the agenda – and to squeeze the most into his time there.

I love it, I love it, I love it.  Health care and the economy are not on the agenda.  So what is on the agenda?  Getting the White House dog? 

I thought the economy was his big thing, right up there with health care and curing the world.  I must've read the wrong Obama speeches.  You know, he gives some just for practice.

That the president is staying overnight in itself is significant. Obama has only bunked overnight in the same state where he’ll hold an event the following day twice since taking office: in Arizona and California. Unlike Florida, both states geographically make for a tricky day trip. By stretching out his Florida visit over two days, Obama sends a strong signal about the state’s significance, and gets more media coverage.

I'm so excited.  Maybe he'll stay in a Holiday Inn Express and save us some cash.

Do you sometimes get the feeling that Obama doesn't like his job?  Or his new house?  Maybe he'd prefer a nice condo in Washington, near an ice cream shoppe.  Anything to get him back to work.  Although, that has its negatives also.

There are urgent matters at hand, and the president of the United States does not impress us with his sense of the moment.

October 26, 2009