What Obama Said About Taking Vacations in 2008!

[Christians4LessGvt]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zsB1iX5T504

[sirs]

Expect any defense efforts to rationalize...."look how hard he has had to work?"...."look how hostile he's been treated by those racist Republicans & Tea Partiers"...."of course he needed more time to recuperate"...."He had to take all those vacations"

[Xavier_Onassis]

He cannot ever manage to out vacation Juniorbush.

[sirs]

He already has.....in spades.  Bush even stopped playing golf, with the war with Iraq started up

[Xavier_Onassis]

Bush may have given up golf, but he spent more time on vacations.

Obama does not do golf vacations.

Golf is the curse of the GOP: Taft, Ike and JUniorbush in particular. I do not see where it is a problem. It does me go to go outside and take a walk. I do not golf, but galf is said to be "a good walk spoiled".

[sirs]

Nice deflection.....fact remains that this President spends more time vacationing than leading, punctuated by his OWN WORDS, in which he made it clear that as President, he and his family would have to "sacrifice" for the good of the country.  And that was in peacetime

[Christians4LessGvt]

Bush mainly went to his own ranch house,
didn't rent out mansions and Ritz Carltons on the taxpayer
like the "man of the people" does....what a crock fraud he is!
It's not even close!

[sirs]

Not even....gads vacations to to, just off the top of my head, Hawaii, Africa, Ireland, Spain, Aspen, New York, Florida, and I've lost track of how many to Martha's Vinyard

[Xavier_Onassis]

Since you hate him, all you do is gripe.

Since you hate all he does, his vacations should make you happy, since he cannot do as much of all that stuff you do not like while he is on vacation. But nope, there is no pleasing the righwing fanatics.

[sirs]

Couldn't refute the facts now, could ya     

[Xavier_Onassis]

You have nary a fact to refute.

If you were to say that Juniorbush took off X hours for fun and games and Obama took off X +y hours, that would be a fact.
Well, if it were true, it would be a fact.

As it is, all  you have submitted is what can best be described as a "gripe".

A president will not be judged by his vacations, but by what he has accomplished, and no fair judgement can be expected for at least 25 more years.

You never hear about all the time FDR spent at Campobello or at Warm Springs.

The issue is just stupid and not worth bothering with. If you were a rational being, you would realize this.

However...

[sirs]

Actually, i already listed many of those facts....they included Hawaii, Africa, Ireland, Spain, Aspen, New York, Florida, and presently Martha's Vinyard

But you're finally right about 1 thing.  A president will be judged on his "accomplishments".  Jimmy
Carter is internally thanking Obama for getting him off the hook as perhaps the worst modern day President this country has ever had to endure

[Xavier_Onassis]

I think it is safe to say that Jimmy Carter is the greatest EX president we have ever had. He has helped millions of people since he left office.

[sirs]

Completely irrelevant to the point being made, but ... ok.  Too bad about the 10's of millions he hurt, when he was in office.  But at least he can look to Obama now for getting him off that hook

[Xavier_Onassis]

The presidency is not a race like Nascar, nor a silly ball game, like the Superbowl. Presidents do not think of themselves in being in any sort of competition, either. Each term has different obstacles, different resources and different aides and assistants. Nor does the condition at the end of the term seem to determine success. The president that left the country the worst off in history was Lincoln. His election started the Civil War and when he was short,half the country was destroyed and starving and the other half was impoverished and disorganized. Yet Lincoln was considered a major success in 1865 and a martyr for the cause of the Union..