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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsQ: Is it true that George W. Bush took more vacation days than Barack Obama? A: Yes.
Q: Is it true that George W. Bush took more vacation days than Barack Obama?
A: Yes. Before his two-week trip to Marthas Vineyard in August, Obamas count was 125 full or partial days and Bushs total at the same point in his presidency was 407.
That's 13 months the White House press corps spent away from home attending to George W. Bush at the same point in his presidency. 13 months away from their kids, most of it spent in that hellhole at Crawford Texas.
And that's not all:
We last dealt with the who-took-more-vacation question in January 2010, at which point Obama had spent 26 days on vacation during his first year in office, fewer than the first year totals for Presidents Bush, George H.W. Bush or Ronald Reagan...
Bushs total for his two terms in office is 533 days, which includes 490 at the ranch and the rest at Kennebunkport. For comparisons sake, President Bill Clintons total is 174 days, and Reagan hit 390 (349 at his ranch and 41 in Palm Springs), according to Knoller.
Adding in Camp David visits would bring Obamas total to date to 223 (thats 83 days at Camp David) and Bushs total for his entire time in office to 1,024 (491 days at the presidential retreat). Note that Obama still has more than two years in office to narrow the gap.
That's nearly 3 years the press corps spent with Bush on vacation during the 8 years of the Bush administration
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http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2014/12/whos-real-scrooge-here.html
randys1
(16,286 posts)What would a con say to this?
They wish Obama was on vacation all the time so he cant do harm?
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)have put out the memo that days spent at the shithole in Crawford weren't vacation days because shrubbo had an office there where he saved the country from terrorism between bouts of clearing brush.
Obama on the other hand spends his days away from the White House sneaking cigarettes and sleeping in.
randys1
(16,286 posts)George W bush was and is a moron, who was unable to do anything beyond very base level stuff.
He was and is a rich, spoiled brat without a brain in his head.
Sociopath as well.
BlancheSplanchnik
(20,219 posts)Is that like bouts of drinking?
TexasProgresive
(12,157 posts)Perhaps he was somewhat present for 2 leap days.
okaawhatever
(9,462 posts)Calista241
(5,586 posts)misterhighwasted
(9,148 posts)Too bad taxpayers can't designate where they want their $$$ to go.
HockeyMom
(14,337 posts)for Christmas because he went to a Tropical place. Well, that is where he is from so why wouldn't he want to spend the Holidays where he grew up? Did they complain when George and Barbara went to Kennebunkport? No, because besides that they were Republicans, it is also COLD there in December.
Richard D
(8,754 posts). . . cause it ain't America.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,835 posts)Little did any of us imagine just how 'off' he would be.
Ilsa
(61,695 posts)Central Texas." The rest of us are trying to get out of Texas during August which is hell on earth. His going there reminded me of how stupid he is.
hfojvt
(37,573 posts)I said "Considering that everything he does is evil, the more time he takes off - the better. Take the next three years off George."
I still think this is a mostly true statement of his terms "They never stop thinking of ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we."
ccarmenfrongillo
(13 posts)we have who cares who took more vacation days.
I hope Obama has a nice relaxing vaca in Hawaii because there is lots of work to be done in the next 2 years.
randys1
(16,286 posts)you will not be happy, unless you are a multimillionaire
JoePhilly
(27,787 posts)hughee99
(16,113 posts)Am I supposed to be pissed Bush wasn't "working" more? My biggest complaint about Bush wasn't that he "didn't do enough". Am I supposed to be upset that a press corps had to spend so much time NOT DOING THEIR JOB PROPERLY on the road instead of at home? Am I supposed to be feel bad that the press corps had to spend so much time in Hawaii?
nxylas
(6,440 posts)That the lazy negro in the White House spends all his time playing golf. Classic Rovian projection - they're really describing Bush.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)vacationing away from the rigors of Wash. D.C.within an 8 year vacation. Cheney ran things along with the PNAC crowd, bushie jr. was a mouthpiece, a symbol of RW idiocy, nothing more.
niyad
(113,313 posts)spanone
(135,833 posts)Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)Judging from the numbers in this article, what this means is that the infamous billboard of Bush asking the question "Miss me yet?", the one that was put up back in 2010, translates into "We didn't know when you were ever here!"
Major Hogwash
(17,656 posts)The billboard from Minnesota --
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It actually should read --
Yeah, we tortured people. So what? C'ya.
Enthusiast
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