The Vineyard Gazette (“Martha’s Vineyard’s Newspaper of Record Since 1846”) is reporting that the Obamas have chosen Blue Heron Farm, a 28-acre property in Chilmark, MV, for their holiday this summer. Of course it’s got to be a bit of a thrill for the vastly rich lefties who own properties on the island when their beloved lib-Dem presidents come to stay — the Clintons vacationed there more than once, including two weeks of post-Monical “healing” in 1998. But it’s surely also a source of contention: Who’s gonna throw the first dinner party for Barry and Michelle? Whose kid is gonna be the first to share an ice cream cone and fly a kite with Sasha and Malia? And it can make for terrible traffic jams, too — “a rental agreement for the farm will comprise three leases, one to be held by the Obamas, another by the Secret Service and a third by a White House entourage” — on an island apparently already overwhelmed with urine:
And what about the residents of nearby Oak Bluffs? New York Magazine reports that some of the town’s African-American residents are thrilled at the prospect of the Obamic visit, while others seem allergic to a certain segment of the African-American community — no one “too Southern Baptist, too dark-skinned, too street” need apply:
These members of “black high society” “come to the island to connect to one another,” and “don’t want to be around white folks, and they don’t have to.” But where does that leave poor old Oak Bluffs partisan and Obama beer buddy Henry Louis Gates, who not so long ago — but before being arrested for being “a black man in America” — discovered (see the 35-minute mark of this video) through DNA and archival records research that “to my horror, I’m getting whiter by the minute”?
