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This should settle vacationgate once and for all - hal - 08-23-2014
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/world/58328799-68/obama-vacation-golf-president.html.csp
Since becoming president, Obama has taken 20 vacations lasting two to 15 days. As of Friday, he has spent all or part of 138 days on "vacation."
By the same point in his second term, President George W. Bush spent 381 partial or complete days at his ranch in Crawford, Texas, and another 26 at the Bush family compound in Kennebunkport, Maine, according to CBS News reporter Mark Knoller’s widely respected record keeping on the presidency. Other recent American leaders also spent more time away.
But images of Obama playing leisurely rounds of golf as the U.S. strikes Islamist militants in northern Iraq have been jarring to some, particularly his fiercest national security critics.
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Other presidents have vacationed during foreign policy flare-ups.
President George H.W. Bush took a three-week break in Maine in 1990 after ordering the U.S. military to turn back Saddam Hussein’s Iraqi forces in Kuwait. He swatted away questions about Persian Gulf action while on the golf course, later saying "I just don’t like taking questions on serious matters on my vacation. ... I hope you’ll understand when I’m recreating, I will recreate. And when we’re working, which I’m trying up here, I’ll work hard."
In 2002, President George W. Bush also was on the golf course when he reacted to terrorist bombings in Israel, saying: "I call upon all nations to do everything they can to stop these terrorist killers. Thank you. Now watch this drive."
There... now can we all move along...
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - OWC Jamie - 08-23-2014
Any numbers on actual vacation time, vacation cost and actual hours spent golfing whether on "vacation" or not ?
How about hours spent constructively working with congress and committee members rather than twirling a pen and a phone..
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - swampy - 08-23-2014
Typical Liberal math.... 20x15=300 days not 138.
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - hal - 08-23-2014
swampy wrote:
Typical Liberal math.... 20x15=300 days not 138.
Typical dingbat math
Not very good at word problems, are you?
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - SteveG - 08-23-2014
swampy wrote:
Typical Liberal math.... 20x15=300 days not 138.
Typical Swampy literacy.
Since becoming president, Obama has taken 20 vacations lasting two to 15 days.
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - Uncle Wig - 08-23-2014
swampy wrote:
Typical Liberal math.... 20x15=300 days not 138.
miley-laughing001:20 vacations lasting two to 15 days
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - swampy - 08-24-2014
Fund raising counts as vacation days and he's had way more than 20 days of doing that. Besides, how many days has he spent lazing around the WH? I can't wait to see the WH logs when he leaves office. BTW, when's he going to host FSU as current National Champions? Oh wait, that's a Southern team with a white coach.
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - hal - 08-24-2014
Wow... Obama hates white football coaches... do you really believe that?
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - Uncle Wig - 08-24-2014
Fund raising counts as vacation days
Since when? And who says? You?
Again:
miley-laughing001:
Re: This should settle vacationgate once and for all - hal - 08-24-2014
Honestly, how do you develop these opinions?
RE FS: "According to Brendan Sonnone of the Orlando Sentinel, Florida State head coach Jimbo Fisher revealed that his team is unlikely to make the trip due to scheduling conflicts.
"We're trying. It looks like it's going to be hard because all the pro players are going, coaches are going on vacation," Fisher told Sonnone. "We've tried to give them a thousand dates, but we couldn't get it worked out."
Alabama didn't have any problem... in 2013 - they showed (with their white coach). All NHL champions have made it to the whitehouse - all have white white coaches...
Really... what gave you the idea that Obama will not greet FS because they have a white head coach?
This is why so many see you as racist - you come up with these crazy ideas and seem to really believe them...