Liars as ususal. Hello, 09-11-01
Bush probably took 216 days over 8 years, i.e., 24 per year—a little over 3 weeks. Even that seems high, but I’m guessing they also include weekend golf time on the presumption that the president has a 24/7 job etc. But of course, by that standard, Obama has spent 5 WEEKS just on the golf course during his first 17 months in office.
Obama said yesterday in an interview that he loses sleep knowing there are so many unemployed in the nation.Although tt doesn’t seem to have affected his golf game.
I’ve seen this mentioned several times on far left sites. I know it can’t be true, Bush had a serious work ethic. He even stopped playing golf after 9/11.
85 vacation days, 41 rounds of golf!!!! You have got to be kidding me. I’m geeked that I get 20 days of yearly vacation coming up in a few months.
here’s an article from the Washington Posts dated 8/2005, four and a half years into the Bush presidency...
>snip<
The August getaway is Bush’s 49th trip to his cherished ranch since taking office and Tuesday was the 319th day that Bush has spent, entirely or partially, in Crawford — roughly 20 percent of his presidency to date, according to Mark Knoller, a CBS Radio reporter known for keeping better records of the president’s travel than the White House itself. Weekends and holidays at Camp David or at his parents’ compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, bump up the proportion of Bush’s time away from Washington even further.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/08/02/AR2005080201703.html
319 days after 4.5 years = 71 days per year....hence dumbama is about equal with GWB’s pace....
factor in they talk about GWB being either “entirely or partially” on vacation in Crawford....if we add in dumbama’s days of golf (a round of golf takes 4+ hours to play 18 holes; half a day) he is surely way ahead of GWB’s pace...
The 85 day figure seems high too. That’s three months out of 18. But 85 days or 215, accuracy has never been the hallmark of CNN.
I think the whole thing is silly. If you count weekends on Obama’s vacation, it is probably not much. We have a ton of things to show how weak he is...this should not be one of them. With real problems that he created is much more important to discuss.
They have memos from dan rather that prove it!
The difference between Pres. Bush and Urkel is as plain as black and white..................oops.
They’re counting days spent at the Western White House in Crawford, Texas, and at Camp David, as vacation, which they weren’t, they were working trips. Work went on as usual.
The fact CNN is “covering” this “sickly pointy finger of distain” story—defending Odumbo—is nothing more than indication how “impartial” they are. They’ll even tell ya that. No bias here...
So . . . ABCNNBCBS tells lies. What a shocker!
It is bs. Every time Bush went to the bathroom the media counted that as a vacation day.
It’s possible they’re including time President Bush spent in Crawford. The difference is that even when he was there, he was WORKING! He had members of his Cabinet join him there, and even had meetings with foreign dignitaries and Heads of State. He wasn’t playing golf, when he was at Prairie Chapel Ranch.
The press counted it as a “vacation” everytime Bush went to the western WH at Crawford or to Camp David for a weekend- even though those are alternate work locations, especially when Congress is in recess
There is and was nothing Bush could do that hate-crazed people will recognize as normal. Apparently the nation must sink much much lower before liberals perceive a hint of difference in Barry’s limited work habits and ineffectiveness and every president in US history before him
Media watchdogs ping.
Are they including working weekends at Camp David? That’s not fair ‘cause the president is never ever off-duty . . . until this current guy.
Look, if they started telling the truth, think how absurd their slant/spin/bias would look! CNN’s perspective only looks reasonable when it’s presented in a framework of lies, half-truths and distortions.
Didn’t Bush work in Crawford? Does Obama do much work on his trips? Crawford was set up as a 2nd White House, right?