They were prepared to kvetch regardless.

If he hadn’t taken any vacation the complaint would be about mistreating his kids by not taking them on vacation.

oh, they understand it perfectly, so much so that they know they cannot afford to have the voters noticing that their candidate’s family values are so very much worse than their opposition’s family values. consequently, they have to yap loud and long about the faintly decadent aspect of vacationing in an exotic locale and conveniently not notice the frail and elderly grandmother.

i can’t help it, but i’m curious what the yappers would have made of this trip if grandma still lived in kansas.

Waikiki isn’t the only beach on Oahu, and there is a lot of interesting stuff to show two little girls who need to visit with their great-grandmother. There are things to do in Myrtle Beach, and it is less expensive but kids need to connect with their family so they know who they are.

You would think that people who keep yapping about families would understand that.

Out here on the Left Coast, a vacation to DisneyWorld sounds pretty darned exotic, and the non-stop flight from Portland, Orygun, to Honolulu is hours shorter and many, many dollars less expensive that most of the the one- or two-stop flights to Orlando…