No, he isn't: Obama NOT vacationing on Martha's Vineyard

Although the Boston Globe breathlessly reported earlier this week that President Barack Obama would be spending the last two weeks of August on Martha's Vineyard, the MV Times writes today that they confirmed with a White House spokesperson that not only will the prez not be vacationing on the Vineyard, he won't be taking a vacation at all this summer. We guess maybe that whole "global economic crisis" is taking precedence over his tan. As the Times snarkily pointed out, the Globe story had no sources, just speculative quotes from Vineyarders, and "fueled a rumor that had been circulating on the Vineyard for weeks of an Obama vacation." Looks like the Globe was taken in by a case of Bored Locals Playing Telephone, a classic Martha's Vineyard off-season pastime.