President Obama Vacation Days By The Numbers
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I want my Presidents to have vacation days, be rested, and in top mental shape for the job of leading my government. While I think one can abuse the vacation privilege as President Bush clearly did, I think it was important to have kept his batteries primed. Therefore, I find the grousing about Obama and his vacation on Martha’s Vineyard rather childlike.
So let us compare President Obama and President Bush on the number of vacation days while in office.
This is Mr. Obama’s 9th vacation since taking office. As of today, he has spent all or part of 38 days on “vacation” away from the White House. He has also made 14 visits to Camp David spanning all or part of 32 days. It brings his total time away to all or part of 70 days.
It’s less than the “vacation” time taken during the same period by his immediate predecessor.
As of this point in his 1st term, Mr. Bush had made 14 visits to his Texas ranch spanning all or part of 102 days. He also made 40 visits to Camp David spanning all or part of 123 days. His “vacation” total at this point in his presidency was all or part of 225 days away.
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Thomas,
You might wish that you had spent more productive time in a classroom as a child. Had you cracked the books more often you would never have written such a laughable post.
Anyone with even a GED knows that if one were to list a few presidents who failed to best serve the nation Andrew Johnson would top all others. There are those who are taking second, and even third looks at Grant, but his time in office was filled with serious political chicanery. Meanwhile Harding served a little over 2 years and had one of the most scandal plauged administrations ever. That is of course unti we reach the period of Richard Nixon!
Yes, Thomas, you are in need of a few books and less time on the computer. Your facts on history are lacking, and your judgement as a result has no merit.
94 rounds of Golf, come on!! Who has time for that? So Obama plays a round of golf about every 12 to 13 days.. Wow.. Now with a $15.5 Trillion dollar debt, unemployment over 8%, over a hundred thousand troops still at war, US boarders are out of control and more Americans on Welfare then ever. So Bush is unpatriotic according to Obama. So what is Obama when he added $5 Trillion to the debt in 3 years.. Obama is about Big Government, now look at big gov’t with the GSA parties costing $800 thousand. GSA budget under Obama $3.4 billion, under Bush $680 million. He is the worst President in History, NO question.. Case Closed..
People talking about Bush starting the deficit- the president does not control our spending, Congress does. Guess who was seated there during Bush’s term- Obama. He helped create it and now he has made it worse. By the way the number of vacation days is pretty off. Bush did spend more time away than most, but Obama did spend 26 days on vacation his first year alone(whether it be a full or partial day). Take a look yourself..