08-24-2014, 02:12 AM
swampy wrote:
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.
Despite Obama spending twice as much time fundraising as Bush, ( pretty sure he's surpassed even Clinton) one doesn't need to count fundraising time as vacation time. Time off from the daily grind maybe, but it really is a sepreate category of goofing off.
Obama has taken 14 vacations for a total of 92 days.
We won't count Camp David days as Camp David is a remote White House.
The Texas Ranch was also set up as a remote White House.
So we won't count those days.
Bush spent 26 days at the family retreat in Kennebunkport.
We'll count those.
He also spent 18 whole days on Obama-style vacation.
So:
Bush - 44
Obama - 92
We don't know how much we get billed for the 9 million dollar pads the Obamas treat themselves to vs the Ranch and Kennebunkport of Bush so cost would be conjecture.
Does it matter ?
As long as he is seen going straight from a national nightmare to the golf course his job rating goes further into the cellar.
No Democrats will want the loser's help campaigning at mid-terms
and his last two years could be two years of vacation.
He'll be able to golf, scribble with his pen and play Angry Birds with his phone.