Posted on 08/28/2014 11:49:15 AM PDT by Phillyred
Ya. So much for “change.”
Every other president went to their home or Camp David. I don’t think Obama has seen his house in Chicago for years.
I don’t know, did Bush take one vacation every single month and then spend all his time “on the job” at fundraisers?
He doesn't just spend his time on "fundraisers". He also spends a ton of it playing golf.
Going to what is in effect a presidential compound, isn’t “vacationing”, as what Obama does.
See, the numbers are whatever you want them to be. Obola goes on a fund raiser which is mostly spent playing golf or smoozing and he wraps that around some policy speech and it automatically all becomes a work visit.
Now - let’s put it this way: How many days did President Bush spend away from the Whitehouse/Western Whitehouse?
Bankers keep longer hours than Obama, He skips his intel briefing often, and when he has one, it is mid or late morning. The guy is lazy.
Chicago and Crawford are a similar distance from DC with Crawford being farther. So, why not compute the number of miles on AF1 both presidents traveled as Bush went home. Obola goes on fundraisers and social travel.
Does it count that Obunga has been out to lunch permanently?
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Okay, are we allowed to point out that when GW went on “vacation”, he went to his own ranch in Texas? Can we also point out that the media hated that about him, because there just wasn’t anything to do and no 5-star restaurants in the area?
Here’s a comparison the media won’t make (for obvious reasons). Add Obama’s vacation days AND all those rounds of golf. We know that Barry is lazy (he reportedly doesn’t arrive at the Oval Office until 10 am, and his official schedule is the lightest of any modern president). So, any day on links is a day of no work.
A century ago, Theodore Roosevelt had a White House staff that was a fraction of what it was today. He handled his own correspondence and did much of the staff work as well. Roosevelt typically finished his work day at noon and spent the afternoons playing with his kids. It’s not how long you work, it’s a matter of working smart, except Zero never works, in the White House or anywhere else.
Put another way, Obama is the first commander-in-chief on permanent vacation since the day he took office.
Is Bill Ayers collecting his daily newspapers and mail for Obama's eventual return home?
Goodness, I seem to have been blocked from commenting on Philly.com for some reason. Wonder who can’t handle truthfully snarky comments... And I didn’t say a thing about them using jarred Cheez Whiz on their Philly Steaks, don’t remember which one, Gino’s or Lombardi’s did that, though.
According to the Obama Golf Counter, Barry has played 192 rounds since taking office, when you add that to his “official” vacation days, he’s at 317 days off since taking office, and he has almost 2 1/2 years left in the White House. By the time he leaves, his golf and vacation days will far surpass George W. Bush.
Do you remember when we had Presidents like this?
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2011/08/23/remember_when_president_bush_gave_up_golf
“President George W. Bush, who routinely allowed journalists to accompany him on golf outings early in his presidency, told Politico in May 2008 that he decided to give up the game in August 2003 after a bomb attack on the United Nations headquarters in Baghdad that killed a top U.N. official.
“I don’t want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander-in-chief playing golf,” Bush said. “I feel I owe it to the families to be in solidarity as best as I can with them.”
“And I think playing golf during a war just sends the wrong message,” Bush said.
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