The Vacationing President

When did President Obama go on an all expense paid sight seeing tour of the US? Did I miss it? To the best of my knowledge, the vacations he and his family take are paid for my his own private income. And, is he ever really on vacation? He is in constant contact with his advisors at all times. The vacation is mostly to spend a little family time, and probably very little at that. By the way, someone else once posted stats here in mylot that show that prior presidents took way more vacation time than Obama has, including Bush.

So your excuse for the record number of days Bush spent either at his ranch in Texas or at Camp David is "just because Johnny blah, blah..."? You cannot give the *title* to the one who is not the record holder so the correct title would be W the Absent. Since I definitely am able to think on my own I do not begrudge the First Family their summer trips while the girls are out of school. They're children who live in a fishbowl. Also, keep in mind that it's Congress who introduce, debate and vote on legislation so do you also have a problem with them taking a "well deserved" summer vacation? They certainly don't take little individual 3 or 4 day trips.

Well Marthas Vineyard needs his help! And why wouldntt he go on vacation, the wars, the oil, the healthcare, and to be fair, he does come out of vacation mode to raise money for his party (not his country that needs it more) and golf.

I'm no fan of Obama's and you won't catch me defending him often, but his job isn't normal. He is literally on duty 24/7. I'm not sure how many people out there work 168 hours a week. The vast majority of us have 2 days off each week. He does not. There really isn't anyone he can pass the buck to when he feels lazy. He can NOT call in sick. If we are attacked while he is on "vacation" HE must deal with it. Biden is not in charge when Obama's on vacation the way a manager leaves an assistant manager on charge when he's away. Even on Obama's laziest day he spends several hours in meetings, getting briefed, and may have to handle a disaster.

...Heyyy With all due respect, if you worked as hard as this man reportedly does in this office you would need a vacation every week. He needs to vacation to reduce the stress, take all you want Obama. Next of all the deficit was busted when he was in the Senate. What's with this spending that he is doing that seems to grit people? Didn't you hear Chegney say deficits don't matter? Ever look into what they did during the depression, tried to cut spending and made it worse. Health care? How about 40 years of trying by 7 presidents and nothing? He came in and yes pushed with Nancy Pelosi's help and they did it. The majority were said to not want it, ask them now. As they understand what they are getting they are happy. People opposed Social Security as well, try to take it from them now. The people were fed propaganda about the health care plan, just like you are feasting on. Yeah W was duly elected twice and look what he left. .....unspeakable... The people around Mr. Obama think he is extending himself too much with all the work he does, and they want him to lighten up. He wants to help the country and is trying to do as much as he can. You can begrudge him his vacations, but you should go down to Washington and ask to go with him for two days as he works. You couldn't keep up at all. Maybe your eyes would be open to a different prespective then again maybe not? Take it easy.

Either you forgot or didn't know that Bush was not "DULY" elected the first time. The Supreme Court trampled "states rights" and overuled the Florida Supreme Court thereby giving Bush the presidency.