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Some on the right are taking every chance to poke fun at the President’s vacation in Hawaii.  This is understandable given the left’s partisan attacks on Bush for 8 years. I can’t fault them for rightly making fun of such hypocrites.  When it comes to the vacation itself, however, I find no problems.  In fact, I wish the President would take more of them.

During his first year in office, America suffered through one of the most active and interventionist governments in our nation’s history.  No issue, such as that between Harvard professor Henry Gates and the Cambridge police department, was too small for executive attention.  This kind of government is both destructive for the country and inherently unsustainable.  Even Big Brother has limits.

Unlike statists, liberty lovers don’t need to believe that there is some figure watching over us at all times. The idea of a national father who never takes his eye off our daily affairs strikes us as creepy, not comforting. So for 2010, we should encourage President Obama to resolve to do less. We need him taking over fewer businesses, interjecting himself into fewer private disputes, and just generally toning down his hyper-active approach to running the executive branch. A good start would be for him to spend less time in Washington D.C. and more time on the golf course in Hawaii.

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