President George W. Bush took 879 days of vacation time during the eight years he was in office — an astounding 30% of his presidency. According to the Washington Post, as of August 15th Barack Obama had taken 150 days of vacation (Or 138 according to the above graphic. But hey, what's twelve days between friends?) in the five years and seven months he has been president, or roughly 7% of his presidency.
Using second grade addition and subtraction skills, anyone can determine for themselves that Obama is at least 719 days behind George W. Bush in his bid to become the most vacationing president ever. And he’d better hurry up if that’s really his goal, because he only has 880 days left in office.
It never fails to amaze me that the Republicans find no irony in accusing this administration of the same corruption, abuses of power, and slothfulness that helped define the administrations of presidents representing their party.
No the President has done NOTHING as bad as Watergate!
No this President has NOT written more executive orders than any other President in the last fifty years.
And no this President has NOT gone on more vacations more than his predecessors. Not even close.
If you are in the woods with a group of Republicans and you show them this...
ReplyDeleteDoes anyone ever see it?
(my best attempt at tree falling in woods. They. Don't. CARE!!!!!!)
Don't also forget that Cape Cod is near the White house while Crawford, TX and California are hours away from the White House. Also, too, these other Bozos spent weekends at Camp David. Has Obama?
ReplyDeleteGryphen, facts have no place in this discussion. Debating Obama's record in office is - according to the top severe conservatarians - best left for AFTER his impeachment and removal from office for extremely serious imaginary crimes and misdemeanors.
ReplyDeleteThree things a patriotic American should never forget: the Alamo, BENGHAZI! and where they parked their car at the mall.
IMAGINARY crimes??? Have you NOT been paying attention??? He's clearly the most corrupt, lawless, tyrannical President this country has ever had!!!
DeleteAfter all, don't you remember when he...
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Can I get back to you on this?
"I'll find ya some and bring 'em to ya," as $omeone once $aid.
DeleteMrs TB - Thank you! I was trying to think of that quote but I had to run to a hair appointment and didn't have time to google it!
DeleteAccording to the geniuses at the Pee Pond, President Obama had done nothing but play golf 24/7.
ReplyDeleteThose geniuses at the pee pond are in for a rude awakening in about 14 months.
DeleteMy RWNJ acquaintance has tailed off "Benghazi" and now litters his discourse with "golfing" and "false flag". I am sure there is a correlation with the phrase frequency used on F**news.
ReplyDeletePlaying golf while black.
ReplyDeleteLiving in the WHITE House.
DeleteThey invent stuff to feed their hate. Devout Mindlessness is prevalent on the right. They do not live in a reality based universe.
ReplyDeleteCheney was doing all the work as president anyway. Dubya was needed in name only.
ReplyDeleteCheney's role was Designated Driver so W could spend as much time as possible hiding his drunken ass on his fake ranch down in TX.
DeleteAgree!
DeleteDubya was the living embodiment of Grover Norquist's qualifications for POTUS:
Delete"Pick a Republican with enough working digits to handle a pen to become president of the United States."
O/T: Holy crap, Gryph, Perry hired Steve Schmidt for his legal team. Think those charges aren't just a "tad" serious?
ReplyDeleteSo Steve Schmidt is to be the spin doctor? Does that mean when Perry loses he will spill the beans on him like he did Sarah? Interesting.
DeleteI hope MSNBC doesn't have him on spewing his BS. I never liked him. Barf.
They call us "libtards" yet they take as gospel any old thing that conservative media tells them. Easily manipulated and brainwashed, the right wingers proudly wear their ignorance like a crown. It's hard to respect them when they don't respect themselves.
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DeleteAt this point anytime I hear idiocy about vacations, golfing, executive orders or anything past presidents have done--only more than President Obama; my response is a simple. Shut The Fuck Up. Discourse does not work with wingnuts.
ReplyDeleteI don't see how the graphic fits the article. The graphic says Bush used 490 while the article says 879
ReplyDeleteThe graph and the article came from different sources.
DeleteI noticed that when Obama took his usual two week vacation in August this year that the right wing media was not hollering how much vacation time he has taken. They have hollered every year about it, but this year was different. So, maybe they did the math and realized this taking a lot of vacation crap was a bridge too far.
ReplyDeleteBut they are still reaming him for playing golf while on vacation. So on it goes.
The thing with the GOP is, if you say it enough times, it's true!
ReplyDeleteThe odd thing is, when President Obama does the things the GOP railed against him for not doing, they're still constipated because there's a
Black man in the White House. Bush/Cheyney etc aren't even mentioned in passing, as if those eight years of epic failures never existed. But Obama, our President, play golf on vacation???? Not just no but hell no.
And where is Congress? On Vacation getting buzzed and playing golf.
In the summer prior to 9/11 Bush was absent MOST of the summer.
ReplyDeleteThis allowed Darth Cheney free reign to allow 9/11. (In my opinion he orchestrated it. Too damn many anomalies for my intelligence to believe the official tale. ) Bush's look on his face as he read My Pet Goat and Andy Card whispered into his ear about the planes .........not ready for prime time presidency thats for sure.