Posted on 08/15/2014 1:24:33 AM PDT by lowbridge
As of August 12, 2014, Obama has taken 20 "vacations" lasting 2 to 15 days. He has spent all or part of 129 days on “vacation.”
And the president has made 33 visits to the official Camp David presidential retreat in Maryland, totaling all or part of 84 days. (Knoller does not count Camp David trips as “vacation.”)
Obama’s morning round of golf on Tuesday brought his total since January 2009 to 186, with 22 of them on Martha’s Vineyard.
At this point in George W. Bush’s presidency, he had taken 58 trips to his Prairie Chapel ranch near Crawford, Texas, for all or part of 381 days. (Bush also frequently used the property to host world leaders).
Bush had also spent all or part of 26 days at his family’s oceanside compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, over the course of seven trips there.
And the former Texas governor had been to Camp David 108 times for a total of all or part of 341 days.
Bush played 24 rounds of golf as president. He later explained his decision to stop in the fall of 2003 by saying he felt it was not appropriate to be seen golfing while American troops fought in Afghanistan and Iraq.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.yahoo.com ...
Study: Obama Most Traveled President, With 31 Costly Trips Abroad
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/Obama-travel-presidents-summit/2014/03/24/id/561415/
Related thread:
Obama Lies: He Says No vacations If He Becomes President (video)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/3191712/posts
Im guessing the yahoo article was in response to that video going viral. (Ya think?)
When all else fails, the remaining lib media believers fall back on Bush-bashing.
Never mind the temerity of calling anything by CBS “authoritative”. That is called “argumentum ad verecundiam”, a formal logical fallacy.
Knoller’s numbers are bogus. Only 22 days at Martha’s Vineyard for Obama over five separate summer vacations? Equine excrement. Bush spent 2+ years at Crawford Ranch & Camp David after 5.5 years of his presidency? Not buying it. Knoller is a fat, lib media troll who is totally in the bag for Hussein.
Two more years to go, he can overcome!
They are counting Bush’s trips to Camp David as “vacation”
Let’s not forget the most important difference between Zero’s vacations and the vacations of past presidents.
They all went HOME. Nixon to his California home; Reagan to his own California ranch; both Bushes went to either their own Texas home/ranch or to Maine to their own home. Even Carter went on vacation back to his home in Georgia. I forget where Ford was from but I am pretty sure he went home too.
Only the Clintooons and the Zeros took lavish resort destination vacations on our money!!
No one here in Massachusetts that I know can afford to vacation on the lavishly expensive “Mahthah’s Vinyud”.
It is completely bogus. But yet again we see the completely corrupt MSM go out of their way to defend Obama, or any Democrat. Funny how they never had time to defend Bush, and viciously went after him every single day.
That poor black man Obama didn’t own a ranch in Texas or “compound” in Kennebunkport.
He has a kickback home in Hyde Park, Chicago.
I do not like these vacation stories. There are plenty of real issues to concentrate on. Focusing on stupid stuff like this just does not work.
No one here in Massachusetts that I know can afford to vacation on the lavishly expensive “Mahthah’s Vinyud”.
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Don’t forget, we have (Virginia) a former Governor in Federal Court for ‘accepting’ favor from a Corporation.
While Virginia law basically says it is NOT illegal, I believe that once someone has ‘risen’ to be a Senator or Governor and he/she is accepting ‘gifts’ - say the donation of a private jet to take him/her to Hawaii or Mexico or Timbuktu to a resort owned by or paid for by a Corporation doing business with the state. While the practice may be ‘legal’ - in the eyes of the law - a person that high up the food chain should have enough COMMON SENSE to realize it ‘aint quite kosher’.
Remember ‘Scooter’ Libby did time for ‘giving’ false information while being scrutinized for other misdeeds.
Back when I was ‘running’ an Asphalt Plant, ALL the suppliers would be around at Christmas with booze, fruit baskets etc which were definitely earmarked for me and yet I didn’t really feel comfortable accepting it even though it was with the complete ‘authority’ of the ownership of our Company.
During the same time frame, I was ‘gifted’ with NBA basketball tickets from a supplier on a regular basis(they had 4 season tickets) - the year the Bullets had Unseld and Hayes (’78?) - and on one occasion I happened to be selected (by random draw) to take a shot from half court for a Million Bucks at half time.
Seeing as I was ‘half in the bag’ and had street shoes on, I missed the Million Buck shot but did ‘win’ a BK(?) cheeseburger for making a layup.— In my ‘condition’ etc that was quite a feat in itself.
I always wondered if I had made the shot, who I would have to ‘fight’ or who would I have to split the Million with?
I would have ‘split’ the cheeseburger with someone but we definitely would be going to the mat over the Million Bucks.
That’s what gets me: the last two corrupt Democrats refused to own homes during their presidencies. They mooched off taxpayers and fat cats for lavish vacations in places where the elites meet to greet - and make deals at the citizens expense. Martha’s Vineyard and the Hamptons should be off-limits to presidents.
Republican presidents are grown-ups. They own homes and return to them during their vacations. I have no problem with any president vacationing at Camp David.
Sort of the point... He’s not working. He’s vacationing. He likes the perks not the work.
Of course the less this idiot actually works the better off we are.
There are financial advantages to a prez who uses his own property. These translate as equity, overhead, and expansions.
A lot of people don't remember or never knew the circumstances and details of Bush's sweetheart deal with the ball club, buying the ranch, or sending the Corp of Engineers to fix the flooding on Johnson Creek.
And even though you can still find it on the internet, no one recalls the letter of advice from the Bush twins to the Obama girls.
Yep, it’s a great gig.
They count W going home as a vacation day but Obama taking vacations as not taking vacation?
yea, this is accurate..
And often the fringe benefits begin with the grooming process.
For a member of the US House of Representatives, there are a lot of advantages to serving on the Ways and Means Committee, so there are 33 members.
OTOH, nobody wants to serve on the Veterans Committee
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