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By The Washington Examiner

Former President Barack Obama took a private jet from Hawaii last week to Bali, Indonesia, where he and his family are staying in a $2,500-a-night suite for a week, and making time for whitewater rafting.

Good for him.

Some people are criticizing the former president for his lavish vacations, and it's true that there is something more than a little galling about his living the high life after his malign eight years governing the rest of us. But we'd actually like Obama to take even more vacations indeed, a complete and unceasing absence from the political stage.

Whether he deserves a break is less important than the fact that America desperately deserves a break from him. We urge him to spend more time with his family, and to set aside completely his tiring, tiresome, indecorous and arrogant efforts to hang around as a political scold.

With disregard for precedent and disdain for decorum, Obama has refused to bow out of the political fray after leaving office. Again and again, he has deliberately acted to make government more difficult and success more unlikely for President Trump. This has included buddy-buddy visits and high-fives with foreign leaders who gave Trump a cold shoulder. It was his sad impression of the Dixie Chicks, traveling overseas to preen and signal that he was better than the man his country chose as his successor.

This week, despite all the charms of Hawaii, Indonesia, Michelle and his daughters, Obama took time out to pen a long essay on the healthcare bill being considered by the Senate. Perhaps his four years in the Senate and eight years in the White House left him with little confidence in Democratic leader Chuck Schumer. Perhaps he thought MSNBC, the Washington Post, the New York Times, the Atlantic, NPR, CNN and every other liberal outlet lacked the intellectual firepower to take on Sens. Mitch McConnell and John Barrasso.

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