GOP to run on anti-vacation platform.
GOP to run on anti-vacation platform.
Clutch your pearls!
Donald Trump, appearing on Fox News earlier this week, complained, “the fact is, [Obama] takes more vacations than any human being I’ve ever seen.”
“They used to complain about George Bush, but I understand he’s already exceeded George Bush and we’re not even through the year. ... I think it sends a very, very bad message,” said Trump.
Donald is a moron.
But Mark Knoller of CBS, the unofficial keeper of presidential work schedules, reported that President George W. Bush had taken more time off than Obama at this point in his first term.
Obama’s upcoming vacation is his ninth vacation since taking office. Obama has spent all or part of 38 days on vacation away from the White House. He has also made 14 visits to Camp David spanning all or part of 32 days, for a total of 70 days, Knoller said.
Bush, at this point in his first term, had made 14 visits to his Texas ranch spanning all or part of 102 days, Knoller said. He also made 40 visits to Camp David spanning all or part of 123 days. His vacation total at this point in his presidency was all or part of 225 days away.
Maybe Donald's inability to count explains his repeated bankruptcies? Or maybe he should stop getting his information at Fox News.
Meanwhile:
Yeah, she wouldn't go on vacation. She'd quit.
So let's see who else ... Gingrich criticizes Obama's vacation—as he leaves on his own vacation to Hawaii. And of course, who could forget this?
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign imploded Thursday afternoon with his entire senior staff resigning en masse, according to multiple sources familiar with the moves [...]
Among the issues leading to the resignations, according to knowledgeable sources, was the two-week vacation that Gingrich and his wife, Callista, insisted upon taking against the advice of his top political staff. Coming as it did after one of the most disastrous campaign launches in recent memory, it raised questions as to whether Gingrich would be willing to “commit time to the grassroots."
And then there's Mittens, of course.
[I]f you’re the president of the United States and the nation is in crisis – and we’re in a jobs crisis right now – then you shouldn’t be out vacationing. Instead, you should be focusing on getting the economy going again.”
Great idea from the guy who hasn't had a job in years! Once he hauls John Boehner and House Republicans back to DC, Obama can follow suit. We don't live in a dictatorship, you know?
Seriously, it's stuff like this that makes Onion headlines plausible.
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