OK - - I gotta "rant". I have a bookmark for the Excite homepage that I go to occasionally for weather reports, to see how the stockmarket is, etc. They always have a "poll of the day". Their question (my, my, is their bias slip showing) is: The president is going to Crawford Texas for a month long vacation -- do you think that's too long to be gone?
What???? Like Bush is going to Texas, fergit about our country, and just clear brush, fish, bbq and let the world go to heck in a handcart....
They never asked those kinds of questions when Bubba was spending tens of millions on his junkets, or was mootching off friends at all the "toney" vacation spots for weeks at a time.....
I just want to find a media type person and just punch 'em.....
But, maybe the Bush PR team should start referring to Bush being at the "Texas Whitehouse" instead of being on vacation......(of course, the poll didn't mention that Congress has adjourned as well......no one wants to be around this place in the summer.....it's 98 outside, not a cloud in the sky, and I'm sitting in A/C and still sweating.....On a scale of 1-10 for sun brightness, it's a 20!!!!
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You may all return to your regularly scheduled program......
All those media hacks are more than deserving of a good smack. I think everybody, including Ari Fleischer, is pretty sick of the media's mantra about the President's vacation. No matter what, they are just never going to give President Bush a break on anything. The following is from Wednesday's Press Conference:
"Q Ari, why are you reluctant to say flat out, as you were this morning, that the President is going on vacation next week?
MR. FLEISCHER: The President is going on vacation next week. What I enjoy pointing out to everybody is Presidents are entitled to take vacation. And people in Washington, I suppose, are entitled to take potshots. (Laughter.) And the fact is, I've seen countless stories that call it a month-long vacation. Believe me, I work for him. Would that it were a month-long vacation; I wouldn't mind one.
But, you know, this is part of the silliness of Washington, where President take a look at something that's not a month long. The President, who is going to bring the White House with him to Crawford, who is going to do an awful lot of work down while he's in Crawford, who's going to travel to 12 cities during the 25 days he's there, and when you subtract out all the days the President is traveling or the days that the President is going to welcome foreign leaders to Crawford, or the days that he's going to have an economic forum in Waco, the fact is he's probably going to be down to about two weeks, just like everybody else, like most people.
The fact of the matter is, the President of the United States is entitled to a vacation just like everybody else. Washington is just a silly town sometimes, where people don't let a good man have a vacation without having to make more of it than it is."
Idiots!