The White House is Feeling the Heat!!!

[smartvoter]

Cindy Sheehan keeps pounding the fact that Bush is on a five week vacation. This has finally seeped into the public at large and attention is being given to how much vacation time this guy has taken -- I have seen it on TV and heard it on the radio.

The WH started damage control, trying to rewrite the vacation as working from Crawford primarily because of West Wing renovations. (Caught it today on the radio.)

Won't fly, of course, because he does this every year, and we can expect Bush apologists to run with it, but the important thing is it shows that the heat is on.

[liberal N proud]

1. Turn it up a little more!

Keep adding fuel to the fire.

[ChickMagic]

2. This has happened before

Remember when he gave up sweets to try to shorten his running time? He said that himself. Later, the White House tried to say that he gave up sweets as a sacrifice for the sake of the troops.

[smartvoter]

3. Oh, brother. I missed it. How can they say that with a straight face? nt

[nadinbrzezinski]

4. He can and he did

but he is sacrificing, doncha know?

[Child_Of_Isis]

6. he gave up sweets as a sacrifice for the sake of the troops.

What the hell does that even mean? :banghead:

[txaslftist]

8. Wayll, heh, ya know, the troops need sugar more then I do, see...

...over there in the streets of...of... the middle east, see. Where the action is. Because if we don't fight them there, we'll be fighting them here, see. It's about morale. It's about honoring the fallen and what they stand for. It's about personal sacrifice and commitment to ... to ... Freedom. Freedom is on the March! We gotta support the troops.

Doncha know that?

"Some of you, sadly, will die. But its a sacrifice I'm willing to make." -Duke Farquad, Shrek.

[Cleita]

10. It means the real sacrifice getting Jenna and Barbara into

the army isn't gonna happen.

[RamboLiberal]

5. They started the crap at least 2 days ago

I posted 2 stories on their wildy spinning that * wasn't really on vacation. Oh really, like someone else pointed out, how do they explain August 2001, 2002, 2003, etc?

[smartvoter]

7. I first heard today, but I've been out. Sorry to be repetitive. nt

[Qanisqineq]

9. There was a segment on ABC's Good Morning America

They said he's spent 342 days at Crawford and then listed the percentage of his presidency and other stats. And something about something being more than Reagan? I didn't catch that part. Also had some Bush loving conservative ("he is so easy to get to know") and Rachel Maddow? (I am having memory loss I think) discussing the vacations. It was humorous because it wasn't a Bush-loving segment at all but done in the light-hearted way of morning shows. The dumb conservative kept saying "it's a working vacation!"

[smartvoter]

11. Yes. Mr. Vacation doesn't like the title... nt

[teamster633]

15. I found this factoid from a previous post:

Until now, probably no modern president was a more famous vacationer than Ronald Reagan, who loved spending time at his ranch in Santa Barbara, Calif. According to an Associated Press count, Reagan spent all or part of 335 days in Santa Barbara over his eight-year presidency -- a total that Bush will surpass this month in Crawford with 3 1/2 years left in his second term.

pResident AWOL indeed...

[Qanisqineq]

16. thanks, that must have been what they said

on Good Morning America. I thought it had something to do with Reagan and a ranch.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

12. And the fishing?

What, are they renovating the Chesapeake Bay?

The lies just never, ever stop.

[merbex]

13. Too many people saw Fahrenheit 9/11 - saw Bush on vacation

saying a few phrases (working) then-

"WATCH THIS DRIVE"

Bite me Karl,George,and the MSM

I'm sick of your spinning

[etherealtruth]

14. CNN has referred to the Chimps V A C A T I O N

... all day in the scrolling news at the bottom of the screen. No "Western Whitehouse" or "working" B.S., just V A C A T I O N

It's a small thing, but, none the less ...