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

Published August 12, 2014 3:04pm ET



[caption id=”attachment_96000″ align=”aligncenter” width=”3578″]President Barack Obama laughs while golfing with former NFL player Ahmad Rashad at Farm Neck Golf Club in Oak Bluffs, Mass., on the island of Martha’s Vineyard, Saturday, Aug. 9, 2014. President Obama on Saturday fled Washington for his familiar spot on Martha’s Vineyard for a two-week summer vacation. (AP Photo/Jacquelyn Martin)

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REASON — 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, 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.

Find out what Obama could learn on immigration, energy, regulation, inflation, and income inequality at Reason.com.