Posted on 04/28/2013 4:54:53 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Report: Obama Spent Twice as Much Time on Vacation/Golf as Economy
by Wynton Hall 28 Apr 2013, 4:00 PM PDT
According to a new report by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Institute (GAI), President Barack Obama has spent over twice as many hours on vacation and golf (976 hours) as he has in economic meetings of any kind (474.4 hours).
The report, “Presidential Calendar: A Time-Based Analysis,” used the official White House calendar, Politico’s comprehensive presidential calendar, and media reports through March 31, 2013 to calculate its results.
GAI’s findings may actually understate Obama’s recreational hours.
Last year, Obama told CBS News that playing golf is “the only time that for six hours, I'm outside." But instead of six hours, GAI counted a round of golf as taking just four hours. Likewise, for presidential vacation hours, researchers attributed just six hours of any day of vacation to leisure activity.
“Like most people, presidents still do work while on vacation,” said GAI President Peter Schweizer. “So we really went out of our way to fairly and accurately reflect how the president spends his time.”
The study applied a similarly generous assessment to Obama’s time spent in economic meetings by counting anything on the official White House calendar even remotely related to the economy as an economic meeting. For example, “Obama meets with Cabinet secretaries” and “Obama has lunch with four CEOs” counted as economic meetings.
GAI’s new report dovetails with its presidential calendar analysis last July that found Obama devotes little time to economic meetings.
Asked whether the latest numbers paint a negative portrait of presidential economic leadership, Schweizer says that is for others to decide.
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That is why this unknown jerk from who knows where wanted to be president. For the perks. He doesn’t have to spend any time on the economy, he already destroyed it. He might take 2 more hours this year to make sure it’s dead but that’s it.
I dunno....might be a good thing.
I, for one, approve this report. The further we can keep the Prince of Fools from the levers of powers, the better off we are. The question we need to answer is how do we keep the fools from doing all the damage?
I, for one, approve this report. The further we can keep the Prince of Fools from the levers of powers, the better off we are. The question we need to answer is how do we keep the fools from doing all the damage?
They don’t Call him King Putt for nutt’n
The economy is clearly racist.
Don’t let him laser-focused on economy, like his previous years’ on JOBS.
I can hear it now from the zombies: “But Bush...but Bush...”
976 hours is damn near a half man year.
976 hours is damn near a half man year.
There’s always a chance of lightning.
Of course, we won’t see David Gregory talking about this..
Let him spend 10x as much time on vacation and golf, than on any aspect of his work duties (economy, foreign or defense policy, anything!)
Let him spend 100x as much time on vacation and golf!!!!
Stop criticizing his expensive vacations and excessive golf.
The more time and energy he spends on anything BUT his job duties, the better for America!
(Am reminded of my Father’s complaint after 13 months of 24/7 television coverage about Bill Clinton and Monica. Finally, my Dad couldn’t take it anymore, complaining that the media was deliberately not informing us about what’s really going on in the federal government (sound familiar?).. But, when a friend pointed out it was Clinton’s fault, my Dad said: “the more time these damned political hacks spend screwing their interns, the less time they spend screwing the rest of us!”
Same for O’s vacations and golf...
Well he’s certainly less than half a man by any measure.
Only because he’d rather be a celebrity than president.
“There’s always a chance of lightning.”
OH, RAT FART!
Nero ... fiddle ... yadda yadda yadda ...
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