Barack Obama's misadventures in Martha's Vineyard are some of the stranger unforced public-relations errors in recent memory.  Spending a fortune to jet off to a fabled playground of the rich, while the country suffers from his recessionary economic policies, was a bizarre slap in the face to an electorate that has already come to view this President as arrogant and out-of-touch.  "Optics" matter.  Camp David is a nice vacation spot, too.

Naturally, Obama played a lot of golf on vacation.  Part of the problem with skipping off to the golf course so frequently is that when he plays a lot of golf on vacation, he gets heat for it.  Upon learning that Obama "played the trifecta" by hitting all three of the big golf courses in Martha's Vineyard, Downgrade America finds itself wondering how much that costs.