Ira Stoll: What Obama Could Learn on Martha’s Vineyard If He Got Off the Golf Course

President Obama is on Martha’s Vineyard this week
and next for his annual non-presidential-election-year summer
vacation. If the pattern of past years holds, he’ll spend most of
his time either holed up in his rental house or out golfing. That’s
too bad, writes Ira Stoll, because if Obama actually explored
Martha’s Vineyard with his eyes open, he could get a real education
in some of the policy issues that his administration and the
country as a whole are struggling to deal with.

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